PALMOILMAGAZINE, MANADO – Politeknik LPP Yogyakarta, in collaboration with the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency, organized a Micro Small and Medium Business (MSMB) Empowerment Workshop in Palm Oil, held in Manado. This workshop aligns with Politeknik LPP Yogyakarta’s ongoing efforts to introduce and advance downstream palm oil products in Indonesia.
Taking place at the Grand Whiz Megamas Manado on Friday, February 23, the workshop was attended by MSMB participants from the Manado region. Participants gained insights into various palm oil-based products, including opportunities, challenges, and marketing models.
Hartini, representing the Director of Politeknik LPP, emphasized the significant potential for value addition to products and palm oil by-products. “Even in many regions where palm oil plantations do not develop. This showed that palm oil processes could be qualified MSMB products if they are well processed,” she said, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from the official page of LPP Yogyakarta, Tuesday (5/3/2024).
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Meanwhile, CEO Business Development Unit, Politeknik LPP, Fitria Nugraheni Sukmawati also emphasized the same. Palm oil process and its waste could be more economical added values if they are well processed.
It was attended by local official, such as, Assistant II Economy and Development Manado City Secretariat, Atto Bulo; and Head of Cooperation and SMB Agency, Manado City, Tony Mamahit, and the officers.
Though Manado City has no palm oil plantations, the workshop delivered chances for local MSMB actors to understand the benefits from palm oil and its derivative products. It was told by Helmi Muhansyah, Head Division of MSMB, PFMA who also attended the event. It was about to promote and market palm oil and its derivative products in MSMB scale. The same thing also happened in many other regions in Indonesia. (T2)
