InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – As the roadmap to get whole palm oil governance improvement, the government published President’s Instruction Number 6 / 2019 about Rencana Aksi Nasional Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAN KSB) in 2019 – 2024.
The policy would deliver mandate for 14 ministries/institutions; 26 province governments as palm oil plantation centers; 217 regencies as palm oil plantations centers to implement RAN KSB programs.
The regulation consists of 5 components, 28 programs, 92 activities, and 118 outputs. The components are data reinforcement, infrastructure and coordination reinforcement, planters’ capability and capacity enhancement, environment monitoring cultivation, and dispute management, Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) acceleration support and palm oil product market access enhancement.
“The programs and activities in the policy were designed to create enabling conditions for stakeholders and planters to qualify their ISPO certification as the mandatory,” Coordinator Minister in Economy, Airlangga Hartarto said in the meeting of Rencana Aksi Nasional Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan, Thursday (28/03/2024).
As in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, ISPO certification realization after RAN KSB president’s instruction was published, 883 companies and 52 unions/groups cumulatively got it.
Besides ISPO certification, the other policy that would be the main part in RAN KSB president’s instruction is smallholders replanting program (SRP). The government accelerated it by simplifying proposal process. SRP realization just covered 50.000 hectares/year in average or 28% of 180.000 hectares/year. In cumulative from 2017 to 24 March 2024, the government distributed SRP fund for about Rp 9,25 trillion with 331.007 hectares in total.
To support SRP acceleration, Airlangga told the allocation plan to get SRP fund from Rp 30 million/hectare to be Rp 60 million/hectare, get only 3 conditions from 6 ones to propose SRP, ease verification process, and SRP proposal process would be simpler.
Besides, he also encouraged to get supports and cooperation with related regional governemnts to RAN KSB implementation by preparing whatever it needs to accelerate the arrangement and implementation of Rencana Aksi Daerah Kelapa Sawit Berkelanjutan (RAD KSB) in each area.
Airlangga continued until now 9 provinces have got RAD KSB, they are, North Sumatera, Riau, Jambi, South Sumatera, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, and West Sulawesi. (T2)
