InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – As a matter of fact, producing sustainable palm oil makes the chance to protect the environment, for instance, the Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) scheme in RSPO focuses not only to maximize the production but also to involve in preserving and protecting the environment.

The proof showed that it could be done. Besides as two main palm oil producers in the world, Indonesia and Malaysia are still the main sustainable palm oil producers in the world. “The sustainable palm oil production development in Indonesia reflects that the stakeholders, including the smallholders, the partnership and independent scheme keep doing it in the field though there are lots of issues ahead. This proves that the palm oil from Indonesia has been tested,” Community Outreach & Engagement Manager, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Indonesia, Imam A El Marzuq said in the Forum Group Discussion: Diskusi Sawit Bagi Negeri Vol. 3, dengan tema “Peluang Pasar  Sawit Berkelanjutan Indonesia” which InfoSAWIT did in August 2019.

To strengthen the support to environmental protection, in 2023 Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) targeted that the certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) production in the world could be reaching 23 million tons, and encouraged to absorb it globally.

So he continued, the strategy to do is to encourage that the planters (growers/the companies) still commit and fulfill their Time Bond Plan (TBP).

In the European Union, RSPO also encouraged the stakeholders to have better cooperation and show to the world that sustainable practices could go forward and take one of nine actions to help and create the free deforestation commodity.

RSPO also suggested other countries to be the members or getting sustainable palm oil certificate from RSPO and support the smallholders’ strategies of RSPO so that there would be more smallholders producing it.

RSPO also targeted that in 2030 every CSPO production could be absorbed by the markets as the certified product both in physical selling, credit scheme and under other scheme selling.

These are to realize the sustainable palm oil as the norm. The stakeholders, he continued, should involve in too, for instance, the growers would keep implementing the sustainable palm oil plantation practices while the users should be committed to buy it 100 percent. (T2)

For more, please read InfoSAWIT, August 2019