PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – As a nation blessed with abundant natural resources, Indonesia holds a crucial role in achieving sustainable development goals through the promotion of green energy. In recent days, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka have presented an ambitious vision, aiming to position Indonesia as the global leader in green energy. Central to their vision is the focus on utilizing palm oil as a primary source of potential energy.
Prabowo-Gibran are confident that Indonesia can emerge as a frontrunner in the green energy sector, emphasizing the pivotal role of palm oil development. Despite the controversies surrounding palm oil, particularly regarding environmental impacts and deforestation, Gibran is optimistic that, through a transformative approach, palm oil can be harnessed for sustainable energy production, dispelling its negative image and proving its potential as a viable and eco-friendly energy source.
In the beginning, the palm oil program ran in the form of a main plasma, but by changing the program to be more inclusive, as Gibran proposed. “Prabowo Gibran thought palm oil would be the backbone of economy in Indonesia. it is proven it took 50 million men got better directly and indirectly.
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The numbers were from 4,2 million direct workers, 12,2 million indirect workers, and 16 dependents from every worker,” Expert Board of Tim Kampanye Nasional (TKN) Prabowo-Gibran, Panji Irawan said in Bincang Kompas that Palmoilmagazine.com saw, Friday (19/1/2024).
Panji, the number 12 prior program from Prabowo-Gibran would be about to guarantee available fertilizers and to realize it, they proposed cooperation concept that would be the medium between companies and smallholders. It means fertilizers would be smoothly distributed for the smallholders, considering kinds of ability and potential. Prabowo – Gibran planned to develop fertilizer mills in many clusters to confirm fertilizers would be equally distributed.
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“Besides, the program is about to get and escalate agricultural production. By substituting unproductive areas to be productive ones, Prabowo – Gibran hoped to escalate food security in villages, regional, and national scale. They believed, this would economically deliver the positive,” he said.
Panji continued, Prabowo – Gibran is committed to support smallholders. One concrete thing to do is about to establish Badan Sawit Indonesia. The goal is about to regulate (palm oil) through one stop service to harmonize many interests. This is hoped to deliver authority needed to effectively regulate palm oil.
In the regulation perspective, Panji said, TKN Prabowo-Gibran would guarantee palm oil plantations in forest regions and area certification. “By these, Prabowo-Gibran believed Indonesia would be the green energy leader in the world while maintaining the social and environmental aspects,” he said. (T2)
