InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The elected President of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto got the data that indicated the leak revenue up to Rp 300 trillion from palm oil plantation sectors. Vice Chairman of Supervisors Board of Partai Gerindra, Hashim Djojohadikusumo who is also the younger brother of Prabowo himself.
Hashim said that the data was got from Coordinator Minister in Maritime and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and Financial and Development Supervisory Board. The data was also confirmed by Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF).
“It is indicated that the naughty stakeholders cultivated million hectares of forest regions to develop palm oil plantations. Even though they were warned, they did not pay their obligation and the country would potentially loss about Rp 300 billion,” Hashim said in a discussion with international scale – businessmen at the hall of Indonesian Chambers, South Jakarta, Monday.
He also said that there would be about 300 stakeholders that caused the leak. There would be preventive action, "friendly reminder" to get their obligation.
“If the leak could be covered up, the country would get additional fun about Rp 50 trillion per year. By the numbers, we could provide free meal twice a day for about 9 million students," Hashim said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from detik.com Monday (14/10/2024).
Prior, Pandjaitan got the names of palm oil plantation companies to report their plantations and permit evidences they got. The government itself through palm oil joint task force used satellite image and drone to veify their reports.
Pandjaitan emphasized the companies that reported their information through sistim informasi perijinan perkebunan (SIPERIBUN) since July to August 2023 should qualify every term and condition. The task force still develops the dashboard to accomplish palm oil cases in forest regions that might be tracked down directly.
Quoted from CNN Indonesia, Chairman of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA), Eddy Martono said the accusation might be from palm oil plantation bleaching program that the government conducted. Based on the report from the task force and Financial and Development Supervisory Board, some companies were found to operate in forest regions without having permits.
Eddy thought that the members of IPOA qualified their obligation about Chapter 110 A, Undang-Undang Cipta Kerja that delivered permission for palm oil plantation companies to operate in forest regions to keep operating if they qualified the terms and condition in three years. But in Chapter 110 B that obliged to pay the administrative fine, the stakeholders should wait for the official documents published by Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF).
Eddy thought the administrative fine to pay from the violation in Chapter 110 B would be about Rp 100 million to Rp 130 million per hectares. But until now there is no official information from MEF that instructs to pay it. (T2)
