PALMOILMAGAZINE, SAMARINDA – The Plantation Agency of East Kalimantan Province is actively accelerating the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification process across multiple regions. They regularly hold meetings to discuss ISPO acceleration with big plantation companies, unions, and smallholders’ groups within the province.
Ahmad Muzakkir, the Head of the Plantation Agency in East Kalimantan Province, emphasized that compliance with President’s Regulation Number 44/2020 regarding the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) Plantation is obligatory for large private companies and government-owned enterprises. The agency is taking significant steps to ensure that these entities adhere to the ISPO standards and certification requirements to promote sustainable practices in the palm oil industry.
He thought, independent smallholders are obliged to get ISPO certificates so that they would not put away from the supply chain.
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“There are 303 big plantation companies in East Kalimantan. Only 80 got ISPO certificates or 26,40 percent of the total. Only 6 (six) (independent) smallholders/unions got the same,” he said in the ISPO acceleration for big palm oil plantation companies, unions, and groups in Hotel Haris, East Kalimantan, Tuesday (18/7).
Data from the agency showed that palm oil plantations in the province laid about 1.411.861 hectares. 89.59 percent of the total plantations consisted of big palm oil plantation companies, government’s plantations, and smallholders’ ones in 2022.
Palm oil exports in the same period reached US$ 1,8 billion or about 28,4 trillion rupiah with the whole fresh fruit bunch production reached 17 tons.
As beige-heron-208544.hostingersite.com quoted from the official page of Information and Communication Agency East Kalimantan Province, the government is serious to develop palm oil in this country because it is the strategic commodity and playing its role as the biggest revenue. By the meeting, every participant should design programs/activities and collaborate to accelerate ISPO certification, namely for the smallholders. (T2)
