InfoSAWIT, ACEH – Chairman of Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) Aceh, Abubakar AR urged Plantation and Agriculture Agency Aceh Proince and every plantation agency in the regencies and city of Aceh Province to immediately publish the names of palm oil plantation companies that should develop the people’s plantations where the companies operated. This is about to implement the mandate of Laws Number 39 / 2014 that obliges plantations companies to provide 20 percent from their business rights to develop the people’s plantations.
“There is no real action so far both in the province and regency levels. What really happened? Every company, both the government and the private should implement the obligation with no exception,” he said to InfoSAWIT, Tuesday (13/8/2024).
Abubakar also said that the companies that claimed to develop plasma plantations or in other forms of cooperation with the smallholders as their obligation, might not be out of the companies’ obligation as mandated in the laws because the smallholders should pay (their obligation) for years.
“Until now, I do not know and see one company in this province that fully implemented the obligation. The related agency should firmly act and confirm that every company should realize their obligation at least, by 31 December 2024,” he said.
He also urged Plantation Agency Aceh Province to be transparent to reveal every company that did not plant in their business rights – plantations. He emphasized that to know abandoned productive areas and should be uploaded to online platform Sistim Informasi Perijinan Perkebunan (Superibun) in Ministry of Agriculture.
“This should be clearly revealed. We would keep monitoring every progress and the agency should be fully transparent,” he said.
He also took every independent smallholder in Aceh to supervise that the companies should realize their obligation to develop the people’s plantations by the late of 2024.
“The agency should confirm that the obligation is a must to welfare the smallholders and the people around (where the companies operate),” he said. (T2)
