PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – In order to enhance the performance outcomes of the Palm Oil Profit Sharing (POPS) initiative for 2023-2024 and propose special allocation funds for road infrastructure in 2025 in West Sulawesi Province, the Public Works and People’s Housing (PWPH) Agency of West Sulawesi participated in a collaborative meeting at the office of the Ministry of Public Works and People’s Housing Regional Infrastructure Facilitation Center (PFID) in Jakarta on Wednesday, February 21, 2024.
Rachmad, the Head of the PWPH Agency in West Sulawesi, stated that the purpose of the meeting was to ensure synergy and support among governmental bodies at the regency/city, provincial, and central levels to execute the program effectively. In line with the directives from the Governor of West Sulawesi, the PWPH Agency in West Sulawesi is mandated to coordinate with PWPH counterparts in regencies to expedite the allocation of POPS funds for infrastructure development, particularly roads.
He also mentioned there were some meetings among PWPH in six regencies and PWPH West Sulawesi Province. The six meetings in six regencies were about to directly see every location to be improved by using POPS in 2023-2024.
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“We did meet for some times among PWPH in six regencies and PWPH West Sulawesi Province. We changed every location in six regencies to directly see what to improve by using POPS in 2023 – 2024,” Rachmad said, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from the official page of West Sulawesi Province, Thursday, 22 February 2024.
He continued POPS would be allocated for seven regencies in the province. The numbers had been decided in 2023 – 2024.
It is regulated in the Regulation of Minister of Finance Number 91 / 2023 about Palm Oil Profit Sharing Management. It emphasized that 80 percent from the numbers should be used for infrastructures particularly every infrastructure that support and encourage palm oil commodity in each province, in this case, West Sulawesi. (T2)
