InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – General Secretary of Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS), Mansuetus Darto told that the government still ignores to develop the smallholders plantations though they are in big numbers.
He admitted that until now the policies published by the government are not maximal yet to develop the independent ones, such as, the President Instruction No. 8 / 2018.
In the President’s Instruction, the President urged to evaluate the palm oil plantation licenses for the corporates, map the smallholders’ plantations, increase the human resources, revitalize the smallholders’ institutions, and 20% allocation from the forest regions.
This does not run well and the smallholders do not get advantage ever since it was published. As the effect, they still have small in number of productivity, hard to get access of fertilizers, bad infrastructures, and most of them sell their products to the middlemen within cheap price.
“Besides, the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) produced by the smallholders is determined by the markets and there is no model of protection to their price because of the market situation as it should be regulated in the Laws No. 19 / 2013 about the Protection and the Empowerment of the Smallholders,” he said in Forum Group Discussion (FGD) Minyak Sawit Berkelanjutan: Diskusi Sawit Bagi Negeri Vol 4 within the theeme “Petani Butuh Keberlanmillionn Harga CPO Naik”, Thursday (26/9/2019) in Jakarta where InfoSAWIT held. (T2)
