PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – Herdrajat Natawijaya, Head of the Secretariat of the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) Commission, announced that starting in 2025, all palm oil planters, including smallholders and industry stakeholders, must obtain ISPO certification. This initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of sustainable palm oil practices in Indonesia.
“ISPO will become mandatory for all planters in 2025. The key requirements include cultivation documents and environmental permits,” Herdrajat stated during a dialogue titled “Accelerating ISPO Certification for Palm Oil Business Actors Through a Jurisdictional Approach” at the Bunex 2024 event, which Palmoilmagazine.com attended at ICE BSD in mid-September 2024.
He also mentioned that the government is preparing new policies to support the implementation of ISPO, particularly focusing on approaches for smallholder groups and cooperatives. Herdrajat emphasized that all parties involved in the palm oil sector, both domestically and internationally, will need to understand and adopt sustainable principles.
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“It would be significant to get approached with the smallholders’ groups and unions particularly they were not organized still. This would help them understand the regulation and implement the practices in ISPO standards,” he said.
Besides, there would be integrated development and monitoring between the central and regional government to confirm the harmony between the policies published by the central government and the field implementation and there would be no overlapping regulations.
“We are studying the models of certification to be adapted and implemented by the groups and unions, including the implement possibility in bigger groups. This could be the solution to make sure that every smallholder and stakeholder would get ISPO certificate easier,” Herdrajat said. (P2)
