PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – The Palm Oil Farmers Union (SPKS) and communities across various regions expressed strong support for the incoming President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka ahead of their inauguration. Smallholders urged everyone to uphold a peaceful environment to support the new administration’s success.
SPKS Chairman Sabarudin praised Prabowo’s election, viewing it as a significant opportunity for national development, particularly in areas where palm oil plantations are central to smallholder economies. He called for unity and calm to support the transition.
“We congratulate Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka as the elected president and vice president. We hope they will continue to lead the nation toward progress and prosperity,” Sabarudin said in an official statement to Palmoilmagazine.com on Friday, October 18, 2024.
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Through its network in various palm oil plantation regions, SPKS remains committed to promoting sustainable palm oil cultivation. Sabarudin emphasized that successful plantation development requires stability and government support, as a peaceful environment enables smallholders to adopt improved and sustainable practices.
He also emphasized that it would be significant for the government to get partisanship for the smallholders for facing many challenges, such as, the fake palm oil seeds, the expensive superior seeds, and fertilizer. The government should deliver access of education for the smallholders.
“It needs partisanship from the government so that the smallholders would implement sustainable cultivation,” he said.
Even though the central, regional governments, and other civil organizations did many, it needs to accelerate the smallholders’ plantation legal for being the big issue that the new government should deal with.
SPKS hoped, by the new government, the smallholders, as one pillar of national scale development would be more solid and the smallholders would be optimist that the cooperation with the government would take this sector go forward and be better. (P2)
