InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – It is eight years that Commission of Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) exists. It is not easy thing to run the policy because there are lots of challenges to face.
But it is proven that ISPO Commission has published and given 502 ISPO certificates to the plantation companies and the smallholders in every single year and it keeps increasing. This proves that palm oil plantations in Indonesia have agreed to fulfill the aspect of sustainability.
Chairman of ISPO Commission Secretariat, R. Azis Hidayat said that the 502 certificates consisted of 493 companies, 5 independent unions, and 4 plasma unions within the total areas reaching 4.115.434 hectares.
The productive plantations reached 2.765.569 hectares within details, the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production reached 52.209.749 tons per year, the crude palm oil (CPO) reached 11.567.779 tons per year, the productivity of the plantations reached 18,81 tons per hectares and the average yield reached 22,23 percent.
“502 ISPO certifications consisted of 459 private companies within the areas reaching 3.905.138 hectares or 50,66 percent of total plantations reaching 7,707 million hectares. PT Perkebunan Nusantara got 34 certificates and the total areas reached 204.590 hectares or 28,80 percent of 710 thousand hectares in total; and the unions of plasma-independent unions got 9 certificates within 5.796 hectares or 0,11 percent of 5,613 million hectares in total,” Aziz told in the spare time of the 3rd International Conference and Expo on Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ICE-ISPO) where InfoSAWIT did attend in Jakarta (27/3/2019).
Director of Yearly and Refresher Plantation, General Directorate of Plantation, Ministry of Agriculture, Irmijati Rachmi Nurbahar said that the publication of ISPO certificates becomes the prove that the palm oil plantations in Indonesia have implemented the sustainable principles and criteria.
“Palm oil plantation sector is not the strategic and prospective commodity only, but also becomes the solution to conquer the poverty, and also as the proof of cultivation which runs the sustainable principles,” Irmi said. (T2)
