PALMOILMAGAZINE, KAPUAS HULU – Perkumpulan Petani Sawit Mitra Mandiri Bersama (PPSMMB) is dedicated to enhancing its capacity to compete in the global market.
On July 13, 2024, 80 independent smallholders from Kapuas Hulu participated in a socialization event about Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification, organized by provincial and regional authorities.
Abdul Mutolib, Vice Manager of PPSMMB, noted that the smallholders showed great enthusiasm for the training, largely due to the regional government’s commitment to facilitating ISPO certification and supporting the acquisition of cultivation documents.
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“The smallholders were enthusiastic in the training because the regional government would be committed to get ISPO certificate namely when proposing cultivation documents,” he said, as Palmoilmagazine.com quoted from the official page of Fortasbi, Monday (29/7/2024).
Abdul Mutolib mentioned that they understood more that it would be significant to get sustainable certification both RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) and ISPO. PPSMMB itself just got RSPO certificate and planned to propose and get ISPO certificate in this very short. “PPSMMB just got RSPO certificate. We would propose to get ISPO,” he said.
The training also delivered insight about ISPO principles and criteria, such as, obedience to the available regulations, good agricultural practices, environment, natural resource and natural conservation cultivation and management. The smallholders also got knowledge that it would be important to get environment permit, labor responsibility, socially responsibility, people’s economic empowerment, transparency, and sustainable business enhancement.
The regional government showed its strong commitment to encourage ISPO certificate in Kapuas Hulu. Abdul Mutolib also mentioned, his institution would be very happy because as group that got the first RSPO in the areas, the government would be committed to encourage ISPO acceleration.
By having ISPO certificate, the smallholders should get easiness, including the helps for infrastructures, and getting smallholders replanting program. “We proposed to get infrastructure helps. Hopefully everything would be easier after we get ISPO certificate,” he said.
PPSMMB is one independent smallholders’ organization where the members are in three villages, such as, Sungai Sena, Seberu, and Pala Kota. There are 301 members there. In 2023, PPSMMB successfully got RSPO certificate for six groups in Sub district of Seberuang, Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan Province that cultivated about 548 hectares. (P2)
