PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – The Ministry of Agriculture’s General Directorate of Plantation organized a national-scale workshop at the Hotel Aston Priority Simatupang & Conference Center in Jakarta on Tuesday, December 19, 2023.
The theme, “Strengthening Inclusivity of Planters in the Governance of the Sustainable Palm Oil Value Chain,” received full support from development partners, including Rainforest Alliance and CIFOR-ICRAF.
It was attended by some representatives from the government, sustainable palm oil team, companies, and development partners from civil society organizations (CSO). Director of Product Marketing and Process General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Prayudi Syamsuri told that it is significant to reinforce planters (smallholders’) inclusivity in sustainable palm oil supply chain governance.
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He also mentioned one challenge that many planters face is about to get Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certificate. In the workshop, he also told the focus to get cultivation document standards as the very beginning to solve ISPO certificate issue.
“The instrument would be simplified to ease others in the implement context,” Prayudi said, as in the official statement to Palmoilmagazine.com, Tuesday (19/12/2023).
Rencana Aksi Nasional Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAN – KSB) in 2019 – 2024 would involve many strategic components and these would be the ways for the government to improve and reinforce palm oil supply chain sustainably. He also informed about the cultivation document – acceleration program as part of the strategies and would involve CSO in the verification process simplification.
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Palm Oil Team Manager Rainforest Alliance Indonesia, Tri Padukan Purba told there are issues in palm oil supply chain though many things are done to improve and escalate the planters’ roles (to get ISPO certificate) because it would escalate product acceptance and competition of palm oil products from Indonesia, and would reduce green-house gas emission.
Purba told what the independent smallholders’ face particularly in qualifying the legal, limited access of finance, lack of incentive, fresh fruit bunch (FFB) selling price which is cheap, the availability of production tool, distribution of FFB, and the threat of European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
When RAN – KSB would stop in 2024 and ISPO certificate would be the obligation in 2025, Purba told it is important to formulate the same solution to get ISPO certificate. The workshop was about to identify issues and challenges that independent smallholders faced to get ISPO certificate which the smallholders would not fully qualify the mandate. It is also hoped the workshop would support everything to get sustainable palm oil cultivation and escalate the people’s welfare. (T2)
