PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – The Ministry of Environment and Forestry met with the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia to discuss preventing maladministration in the palm oil industry. This meeting was part of a systemic study aimed at improving governance.
Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya, expressed support for the Ombudsman’s initiative. She stated that it aligns with the efforts of the palm oil task force to enhance governance in the palm oil industry, as directed by President Joko Widodo in Presidential Decree Number 9 of 2023.
“President Jokowi established Task Force to Escalate Palm Oil Industrial Governance and To Optimize the Revenue as it is regulated in the Decision of President Number 9 / 2023,” she said, as in the official statement to Palmoilmagazine.com, Thursday (11/7/2024).
Meanwhile, the member of Ombudsman RI in Public Service Supervision in Economy, Yeka Hendra Fatika said the meeting would be about to get the early coordination and communication to make sure every information demands and field check would be running well in the future. The focus would be about to prevent mal-administration by testing the potential issue in the public service implementation.
The systemic study would also involve some parties, for instance, Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Agrarian Affairs/National Land Agency, and Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resource. One aspect emphasized in the meeting was about inventory and solution for overlapping areas between palm oil plantations and forest regions. (P3)
