InfoSAWIT, PALEMBANG – Palm oil plantation human resource development training program from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) and General Directorate of Plantation Ministry of Agriculture successfully got the attention and appreciation from South Sumatera province. The training was joined by 61 smallholders from Regency of Lahat and Ogan Komering Ilir (OKI). It was conducted by Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) with the supports from PFMA and General Directorate of Plantation.
Head of Plantation Agency South Sumatera Province, Agus Darwa appreciated the initiative when attending the opening ceremony on Tuesday, 9 July 2024 in Palembang. "We are grateful for PFMA and General Directorate of Plantation for supporting the training. I do hope the participants would take advantages on it to escalate your management capability and financial administration,” Agus said.
He also emphasized three main keys in palm oil industries, such as, resilience, acceleration, and education. He said, many smallholders significantly contributed to the national and regional scale – revenue. It hardly reached rp 500 trillion per year. “The fund would be returned to the society through training program. The goal would be about to escalate smallholders’ capacity. It is hoped to help them to have better financial management and would get away from legal issues,” he said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Tuesday (16/7/2024).
The training involved four experienced trainers, they were, Dr. Ir. Dwi Rachmina, Msi; Hastuti, S.P, M.Si; Farida Ratna Dewi, SE, MM, ME, AWP; and Tursina Andita Putri, Msi.
Dwi Rachmina, the Lead Trainer and Agribusiness Lecturer of Faculty of Economy and Management IPB said that the training would be about to inform them how to make good book and financial administration, how to manage credit and loans, arrange union development proposal plant, and decide fresh fruit bunch (FFB) price.
“The weaknesses of micro, small, and medium businesses in Indonesia, including the smallholders are about human resource and capital. If the human resources would be able, it automatically would access the capital. By having the training, we do hope that the smallholders would be more competent and getting access in capital well,” Dwi said.
Team Chairman in Institution and Training Center, Pusat Pelatihan Pertanian BPPSDMP Ministry of Agriculture, Apuk Ismane said that IPB Training would be one accredited training institution. He hoped the training would escalate the smallholders’ skill and independency in palm oil cultivation.
Chairman of Secretariat Team of Palm Oil Plantation Human Resource Development General Directorate of Plantation, Eva Lizarmi said that the smallholders’ palm oil plantation would apply ISPO (Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil) certificate in the future. That is why the good financial reports would be the modal to get ISPO certificate. The management and financial administration training, Eva continued, would be the significant thing to escalate their competency.
She also emphasized PFMA would be open to every financial program that the smallholders would do by proposing it through the groups, cooperation, or koperasi unit desa. She hoped the material formulation should be well to get the chance in funding proposal.
The training would escalate not only the smallholders’ management competency but also the chance for them to get access in modal and program funds. By having increasing skills, the smallholders in South Sumatera should get bigger contribution for sustainable palm oil industries nationally. (T2)
