CPO Price Reaches Rp23,900 per Kg, It’s Ironic Farmer’s TBS Price Even Plummeting – Bangkapos.com
BANGKAPOS.COM, BANGKA – Phenomena that occur in the coconut industry palm oil in the last two weeks has become a new world record, namely a record in terms of the increase in world CPO prices and a record also from in terms of falling prices for oil palm FFB by smallholders.
The Indonesian government is currently facing challenges, both from within domestically and from abroad after the ban on the export of CPO and other raw materials other cooking oil raw materials.
Of course all of this has been taken into account by the government, but the most important thing is Unfortunately, the policy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia is not fast anticipated potential negative impacts on independent oil palm smallholders/people through strengthening the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture (Permentan) Number 1 2018 concerning the procedures for determining the price of FFB for oil palm smallholders.
Chairman of DPP APKASINDO (Indonesian Palm Oil Farmers Association), Dr Gulat ME Manurung said that APKASINDO had study and analysis of how effective the governors regulations are (Pergub) as a derivative of the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture (Permentan) No 1 of 2018 concerning Trade System for Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) for Farmers in in the midst of turbulence from the ban on exports of CPO and raw materials other cooking oil.
In fact, the Minister of Agriculture 1 of 2018 is very powerful and powerful maintain the normality of smallholders FFB prices for oil palm, if the ministry directly related to anticipating after President Jokowi delivered the policy. But sadly it was ignored, said Wrestling to Bangkapos.com, Thursday (5/5/2022).
He revealed, to prove how powerless Minister of Agriculture 01 In 2018, it can be seen based on the report of the Complaints Command APKASINDO against FFB price fraud from 8 provinces in Indonesia the last two weeks, the average FFB price was obtained based on the determination of the price of the Provincial Agriculture/Plantation Service, which is Rp. 3,814 per kg of FFB.
Meanwhile, the average price purchased by Palm Oil Mills (PKS) is Rp. 1,569 per month kg of FFB and for provinces without a gubernatorial regulation, only Rp. 1,300 per kg is purchased TBS.
From this it can be said that Ministry of Agriculture No. 1 of 2018 and the Governors Regulation FFB trade system in eight provinces and finally the Circular of the Director General Plantation Number 165 of 2022 is practically ignored by everyone PKS (palm oil mills) and other palm oil industries, said Gulat.
He added, specifically for provinces that already have a Governor Regulation FFB trading system, where the FFB price decreased as of 23-30 April by 58.87%.
Whats even worse is that the province does not yet have a Governor Regulation FFB sales system, where the decline in FFB prices dropped to 65.45 percent. This phenomenon has also been used by PKS to increase pieces of scales which in the Minister of Agriculture 01 of 2018 are prohibited.
Yes, thats right, after President Jokowis speech on April 22, the scales cut in PKS rose almost 3 times. For example, if farmer A to PKS sells The TBS is Rp. 1,000 per kg, if the scale is 10 percent, then what? paid by MCC is only IDR 900/kg. Of course this makes it even more farmers lost twice, first the price dropped and the second discount scales at MCC. Pretty basic question for us farmers palm oil is, who protects us? Wrestling asked.
