InfoSAWIT, GORONTALO – The protest of alliance to move plasma palm oil plantations in two palm oil unions in Sub district of Popayato Serumpun still becomes the hot topic in the society and palm oil activists in Gorontalo Province.
The mass action on 4 - 7 July 2024 did demonstration in front of the office Gorontalo Legislators and did directly audience with Regent Pohuwato. But it had not solution still. The Hearing for three times did not get the solution. The fourth hearing was scheduled on 6 August 2024.
Badan Pengawas Koperasi BSP Bukit Sawit Popayato, Herdiyansah Maranya said that the moving of plasma plantations from from Taluditi to Popayato should be their responsibility.
This is from the Decision of Regent of Pohuwato Number 214/10/VII/ 2010 about Palm Oil Plantation Business Permit Publication to PT STN in Popayato. It means, the plasma plantations should be in the region, not in Taluditi.
Besides, the memorandum of understanding between the company and Koperasi BSP is not clear yet and needs revision because the credit that reached up to Rp 75 million per hectare to develop (plasma) plantations from the first to the third year -planting, is not paid yet and the land certificate of the cooperation members, is not existing still. “It the claim has no solution, as the alliance, we would take the case to Komisi Pengawasan Persaingan Usaha (KPPU),” Aliansi Pemindahan dan Perbaikan Kebun Plasma (APRPD), Rolly Sahrain said.
When waiting for the fourth Hearing, the alliance planned to get more mass action, suggested the workers to leave the camp for a while for their safety.
Chairman of APKASINDO Gorontalo Province, Muhadjir Laindi said that the case happened for the plasma scheme was not equal. “It is hoped that in the future, the plasma scheme should be improved within good basic and goals of partnership, provide certainty, additional values for the partners, and escalate the economic progress,” he said to InfoSAWIT, Monday (5/8/2024).
Muhadjir also mentioned, for fresh fruit bunch in Gorontalo Province is at about Rp 2.286, the plasma smallholders’ income would be increasing. “Let us, as the people of Indonesia, maintain conduciveness in our region,” he said. (T2)
