InfoSAWIT, PEKANBARU – Governor in duty of Riau, Rahman Hadi accepted the audience of PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) management Region III in his office on Jalan Diponegoro, City of Pekanbaru, Riau Province. In the meeting he was with the Assistant II Riau Province Secretariat, M Job Kurniawan, and Head of Plantation Agency Riau Province, Syahrial Abdi.
They discussed about PTPN restructurization that would join every palm oil plantation that PTPN managed and cultivated to be the new business entity called PalmCo. Syahrial Abdi said that the business transformation has been running since December 2023. It would cover some operations of PTPN, such as, in North Sumatera and Kalimantan.
“The governor accepted Head Region PTPN IV Regional III, Mister Rudi. Rudi said that the management of PTPN has become one business entity called PalmCo. The transformation delivered impacts in many aspects, such as, the permi, business assessement, and business rights adjustment,” Abdi said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Media Center Riau, Wednesday (30/10/2024).
He also mentioned the entity substitution would deliver changes and authorities because the plantations of PTPN developed in many regencies, cities, and even provinces. This would be significant to get socialization for the regional governmens to get synergy among the regions.
Rahman Hadi fully supported the transformation by emphasizing the as the Enterprises, PTPN would have the strategic function and work to support energy and food security namely in palm oil sector. “We fully support the transformation because PTPN gets the mandate from the country and this would be the same with the president’s instruction to reinforce food and energy security,” he said.
Back to Abdi, he also said that palm oil sectors would play significant roles in food and energy security through its downstream products, such as, palm cooking oil, cosmetics, biofuel, biomass, biogas, and others. Indonesia launched biodiesel mandatory program which should be mixed with diesel. It is now in b35 and would be B50 and so on. In the future, palm oil as the material to the program would be reaching B100.
“Riau has the big potential in this sector and by the transformation to be PalmCo, we hoped to get economic advantages and develop palm oil industries more equal in many regions. Do not let that Riau as the main palm oil producer in Indonesia not get the positive impacts maximally,” Abdi said. (T2)