InfoSAWIT, SEUMANAH JAYA – To accelerate infrastructure proposal process from Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA), Head of Village of Seumanah Jaya, Muhammad Sabri took the Chairman of Serikat Petani Kelapa Sawit (SPKS) Aceh, Abubakar AR to directly explain to the villagers. The meeting was at night and was attended by heads of dusun, young generations, and others.

In his speech, Muhammad Sabri thanked for the arrival of Abubakar. "Alhamdulillah, Chairman of SPKS Aceh wants to come here even though it is late. His presence would be the good news for us,” Sabri said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Thursday (29/8/2024).

Abubakar AR said that the infrastructure fund from PO PFMA derived from fresh fruit bunch (FFB) selling that the smallholders produced. “The fund would be the rights of the smallholders, used for your needs, such as, to improve production ways, and harvest ways. The grant did not need to pay back in the proposal,” he said.

He also mentioned the infrastructure proposal process would be easier as long as the terms and conditions needed would be complete as regulated in the Decision of General Directorate of Plantation Number 62 / 2023. "The fund would directly be recommended and delivered by PO PFMA. If any party wants to make it difficult, I would directly report it to the legal officials,” he firmly said.

The villagers of Seumanah Jaya were positively responding it. They were happy to directly know the clear explanation from Abubakar. "We just knew that if the fund process to improve the ways, is an easy process,” Sabri said.

The group of Bela Takan in the village planned to immediately propose to get infrastructure fund through online application with the volume, 34 kilometers and 19 spots to get improved. “This week, we would propose it,” Sabri said.

The meeting would be the important one for the smallholders in Seumanah Jaya to increase their agricultural infrastructures with the full supports from PFMA and SPKS Aceh. (T2)