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Eradicating the Poverty Through Agriculture and Plantation Industry to Empower Peace and Humanity

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Menteri Koordinator Bidang Kemaritiman Luhut B.Pandjaitan ditugaskan Presiden Joko Widodo untuk melakukan lobi dan negosiasi masalah sawit di Eropa. Dalam rangkaian diplomasi sawit, Menko Luhut berkesempatan memberikan pidato kunci dalam Seminar ‘Pemberantasan Kemiskinan Melalui Pertanian dan Perkebunan Demi Perdamaian dan Kemanusiaan, Roma, 15 Mei 2018. Mengawali pidatonya, Menko Luhut mengapresiasi kerja sama Indonesia, Malaysia dan Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development di bawah kepemimpinan Kardinal Peter Turkson, yang telah memprakarsai pelaksanaan seminar ini.

Seminar “Promoting Poverty Eradication and Peace and Humanity By Leveraging Through Agriculture and The Plantation Industry” berlangsung di Pontifical Urban University, Rome, Italy, 15 May 2018.

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source: www.maritim.go.id ; photo & report by: PPI Roma

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Is it true that Indonesia’s Oil Palm plantations are the largest monocultures in the world?

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All of the world’s agricultural commodities cultivated in agricultural areas are monocultures. Wheat, corn, beans, rice and others throughout the world are cultivated by monoculture. According to USDA (2017) data, of the 224.28 million hectares of the world’s wheat cultivation, 30.2 million hectares are located in India, EU has 26.9 million hectares, China has 24.3 million hectares, Russia, 26.9 million hectares, the US 17.7 million hectares and Australia has 12.9 million hectares.

Meanwhile, of about 177.45 million hectares of corn cultivation in the world, 35 million hectares are located in the US. China has 36 million hectares, Brazil 16.4 million hectares, and India 9.5 million hectares. Meanwhile, of about 159 million hectares of rice cultivated in the world, 44.5 million hectares are located in India. China has 30.3 million hectares and Indonesia 12.1 million hectares.

Of the world vegetable oil production, Indonesia’s palm oil plantations cover an area of 11.6 million hectares in 2016, smaller than soybean farms of major soybean-producing countries (Figure 2.3). In the United States, the soybean- cultivation area reached 33.6 million hectares in 2016, and in Brazil it is about 33.8 million hectares, which is three times larger than Indonesia’s oil palm plantations. In Argentina, the area under soybean cultivation reached 19.5 million hectares and in India about 11.4 million hectares.

Thus, Indonesia’s oil palm plantations are not the largest monoculture commodity in the world, either among all commodities or in the world’s vegetable oil commodity group. For a comparison, Indonesia’s palm oil plantation area is onlyone-third of the land area of soy bean productionin the United States or Brazil. While in Indonesia, the rice-farming area is still larger than oil palm plantations.

Source: Palm oil Agribusiness Strategic Policy Institute

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Oil Palm Plantation in Indonesia

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Overview of Indonesia as the largest oil palm plantation in the world

Indonesia is a wonderful archipelago country located in South East Asia region. It is extending 5,120 kilometres from east to west and 1,760 kilometres from north to south.  Based on a geospatial survey conducted between 2007 and 2010, Indonesia has 13,466 islands. There are five big islands  Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua and also two major archipelagos (Nusa Tenggara and the Maluku Islands). Indonesia is also well known as the largest oil palm plantation in the world.

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The Distribution Area of Oil Palm Plantation

The island of Sumatra has the largest plantation area as compared to other islands. The area of oil palm plantation belongs to the local people, reaching 3,526,582 hectares. Further more on the island of Kalimantan covering an area of 837,615 hectares, Sulawesi island with 175,059 hectares of land, Maluku and Papua islands with an area of 28,367 hectares, and the island of Java of 7,478 hectares, also owned by the local people.

Large State-Owned Plantations (PBN) that originated from the colonial era on the island of Sumatra, unfortunately less significant growth. With a plantation area of 555,203 hectares, PBN often suffers a major dilemma as a state-owned enterprise. Its existence, often distorted politically and under pressure from communities living around its plantations.

The existence of Private Plantations (PBS) is also growing as fast as plantations owned by the people. With the plantation area reaching 3,057,275 hectares, the oil palm plantation owned by the private sector, is also very influential on the development of oil palm plantations that have been more than 100 years growing on the island of Sumatra.

Sumatra is also known for the existence of old plantation companies that have been established since the Dutch colonial era. In short, London Sumatra, which has been acquired Salim group recently. Naturally, if the existence of oil palm plantations have a large share of regional development, such as the provision of employment, economic improvement and welfare of the wider community.

Based on data from London Sumatra Plantation Company (PP), which has a code of LSIP issuers recently, the company has a land area of 114,206 hectares, of which 82% is planted with oil palm, 15% rubber trees and the remaining 3% for other crops. The LSIP issuer also reported productive land growth that produced an area of 3,128 hectares, thereby strengthening a profitable land base capable of producing up to 81.769 hectares of crude palm oil.

Sumatra Island also gave birth to plantation companies owned by national entrepreneurs, such Salim, Eka Tjipta, Sukanto Tanoto to Martua Sitorus who has large oil palm plantations within the group of his company until today.

Starting from the demands of global consumers who want the availability of palm oil to supply the needs of the world market. Today, Indonesia becomes an archipelagic country capable of being integrated into one via a national oil palm plantation. The existence of oil palm plantation that almost always reside in the large islands become one of the adhesive power.

Although the island of Nusa Tenggara & Bali does not have oil palm plantations, but the consumption of palm oil from the people who are in it, also become the adhesive power. Indeed, the Indonesian people benefit greatly from the abundant supply of palm oil in the country.

The island of Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua, has its own charm of the extent of land that it still has. If sustainable palm oil plantation development is carried out on these islands. Then the existence of oil palm plantations is very likely to grow rapidly and promote the community.

CPO production potential is very large, when used as raw materials to produce products of high quality food and non-food oil. Products that have been known to this wider community, also healthy and environmentally friendly, so safe to eat.

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Promuoviamo una terra più sostenibile con i frutti di palma certificati dall’Indonesia.

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Oil Palm plantations absorb more Carbon Dioxide compare to natural forest

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Each second the Earth’s atmosphere is crammed with wasted carbon dioxide from human activities on the planet. Humans, animals, motorized vehicles and factories around the whole world emit excessive carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) into the Earth’s atmosphere, which has triggered global warming and changes in the environment. In order to reduce the
concentrations of this greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere, besides by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, re-absorption of the greenhouse gas is also needed.

Each plant, both forestry plants and oil palm plants, has the ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Through
plant photosynthesis, the existing carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere will be absorbed.

Through a plant’s metabolism, carbon dioxide is divided into carbon and oxygen. The carbon is processed and changed into parts of the plants (roots, stems and leaves).

Meanwhile, the oxygen is discharged into the atmosphere for animal life to breathe. Because plants have the ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce oxygen for the atmosphere in return, green plants, including oil palms,
are called as the “lungs” of the ecosystem (Figure 7.10).

Figure 7.10: Oil palm plantations as the “lungs” of the ecosystem (PASPI, 2016)

If oil palm plantations and forests are compared (Table 7.4), each ha of oil palm plantation absorbs a net 64 tons of carbon dioxide each year and produces about 18 tons of oxygen.

Table 7.4: Carbon dioxide absorption and oxygen production of oil palm plantations and tropical forests

Meanwhile, a forest’s net absorption amounts to about 42 tons of carbon dioxide each year and it produces about 7 tons of oxygen. Therefore, oil palm plantations are even superior to forests when it comes to absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and producing oxygen for the Earth.

Source:Palm oil Agribusiness Strategic Policy Institute

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