InfoSAWIT, PALU – Governor of Central Sulawesi Province, Rusdy Mastura emphasized that the regional government should confirm that palm oil plantation companies operating in the province should be legal both in the mills and plantations.

“The regional government should confirm that every palm oil companies in Central Sulawesi Province should be legal in their operational and mills,” he said in the coordination meeting about palm oil governance in Central Sulawesi, in Palu, Wednesday (5/6/2024).

He also explained that the legal should cover business rights for plantation and building rights for plantations. Every palm oil plantation should obey the regulations about palm oil governance to realize sustainable palm oil plantation system.

“The meeting should be the moment to get monitoring, evaluation, proposal, suggestion, inputs, and encouraging research and innovation to realize sustainable palm oil plantation system in the Negeri Seribu Megalit, Central Sulawesi," Mastura said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Antara.

He hoped the conclusion and recommendation from the meeting should be maximally realized and making Central Sulawesi the pioneer in developing sustainable palm oil plantations in Indonesia.

“Hopefully the results that become the conclusion and recommendation can be maximally implemented,” he said.

Governor Mastura targeted that the province would be the palm oil plantation center in Indonesia by realizing downstream sectors.

In 2023, Central Sulawesi produced about 462 thousand tons of palm oil with the average productivity about 4.500 kilograms per hektare per year. Palm oil plantations in the province laid about 152 thousand hectares. (T2)