PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – In the dynamic landscape of palm oil research and development, Tony Liwang, a Committee Member of the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency’s (PFMA) Research and Development division, sheds light on the efforts of Pekan Riset Sawit Indonesia (Perisai) to bridge the gap between researchers and industries.
He underscores the proposal for a specialized forum, aiming to empower industrial researchers by providing a platform for expressing their specific research needs. In an exclusive interview with Palmoilmagazine.com, he reflects on the current industry response to research outcomes, deeming it an opportune moment to establish a transformative forum, managed by stakeholders, where researchers actively engage with industry leaders.
“It happened that the researchers did theirs and the stakeholders just waited and saw. Slowly but surely, we have to get opener forum. The stakeholders would tell what they need to the researchers though there is no forum like it,” he said.
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Tony Liwang continued, with the supports from PFMA, such forums would run to deliver messages for industries to what they need. “It has to and we would try to deliver the details,” he said.
Such idea would be the innovation and the industries would directly involve in research process, confirm that the research result would be more relevant with the industrial practical needs. The supports from PFMA would be the catalysators to make such forum and accelerate research adoption in palm oil plantation sectors in this country.
Prior, Head of Service Program Division, Directorate of Fund Distribution PFMA, Arfie Thahar said that the industries that want to develop technology by taking for advantages on PFMA, would be free of charge. But if the technology has got patent rights by the researchers, the industries that want to take on advantages should get cooperation.
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PFMA did concrete things to clarify intellectual property rights that have something to do with research results by intensively having communication and discussion with Ministry of Finance by sending official documents. The questions were about regulation to divide research results that PFMA got.
By having the clarification, PFMA confirmed that industries that potentially take for advantages on research result would not pay tariff or rupiah. It means such industries could execute without thinking of additional payment. (T2)
