InfoSAWIT, PALEMBANG – Plantation Agency South Sumatera Province conducted 'Pelatihan Manajemen dan Administrasi Keuangan', Tuesday (4/6/2024). It was inaugurated by Head of South Sumatera Plantation Agency, Agus Darwa that emphasized that it would be important to get financial administration and management to confirm sustainability and long term – period (plantations) and organization, and also protect the union members’ interests.
"In South Sumatera palm oil plantations laid on about 1,4 million hectares and contributed 10 of 80 percent the total exports nationally,” Agus said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Sunday, 9 June 2024.
The training presented four trainers, they were, Dwi Rachmina, Netti Tinaprilla, Hastuti, and Farida Ratna Dewi. Dwi Rachmina, as Lead Trainer and Lecturer of Agribusiness in Faculty of Economy and Management Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) said that the training would help the smallholders to manage their plantations, such as, in fertilizer application, workers, additional materials, and would understand their financial business profits.
“Every smallholder should understand not only cultivation technic, but also financial management and administration. Then every union member would understand and apply the financial management to get their organization developed,” Dwi Rachmina said.
Director of Plantation Protection General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture, Hendratmojo Bagus Hudoro said that palm oil organization/institution coordinators should run every activity based on the professional and economic principles that refers to corporate concepts. “The organization that understands about financial management could minimize the loss but maximize income,” he said.
Hendratmojo continued the training would be the way of the government to escalate the knowledge and insight in financial administration and management. General Directorate of Plantation allocated fund through Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) to get the training that 58 smallholders joined for four days or from 4 to 7 June 2024 in Emilia Hotel.
“We hope every smallholder that join this training should pay attention. Do not be shy to ask to the trainers. Get as much as you would to know to your home and spread to your friends that did not get the same chance,” Hendratmojo Bagus said.
Just like Hendratmojo, Agus Darwa said that the training would be the way of South Sumatera Province to escalate the smallholders’ knowledge about the finance. “We hope you could inform others in South Sumatera and many would realize that it would be important to have good organization within good administration,” Agus Darwa said. (T2)
