InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – World Plantation Conference and Exhibition (WPLACE), for the first time was held and directly launched by Vice President, Indonesian Republic, Jusuf Kalla. Chairman of Committee of WPLACE, Teguh Wahyudi, said, the event is to share information to face the dynamic changes in plantation business globally.

Though it was the first time done, the event within kinds of theme of plantation, such as, palm oil, rubber, cocoa, coffee, tea, sugarcane, had triggered the global planters. Teguh ensured, there were about 1500 participants and 400 of them were from 33 countries.

Not only that, the event was interesting to the big and middle scale planters. “75 big and middle scale plantation companies joined the event,” he said in the launching of WPLACE in Hotel Sahid, Jakarta and InfoSAWIT also attended.

Meanwhile, Vice President of Indonesian Republic, Jusuf Kalla said, plantation had something to do with the history of Indonesia. The European came to Indonesia, just wanted to seek the spices from our country, such as, nutmeg, clove, and others.

In the colonialism, the big plantations were enlarged and cultivated. The workers were from the local people. “So it needs to see the progress, to know the challenges in plantation and agriculture for the future,” he said.

In 2025, it is predicted, the world population would be 9 billion. Knowing the increasing population, it is clear, the needs of food would be increasing too. It might be reaching 70%.

So Vice President Jusuf Kalla said, we need the commodity of plantation and should solve the challenges in plantation sector. “This needs solution,” he said.(T2)