PTPN Will Form A Special Organization To Manage People's Tebu

President Director of PTPN III Mohammad Abdul Ghani. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The BUMN Plantation Holding, PT Perkebunan Nusantara III or PTPN III will soon form a special organization that will handle people's sugar cane.

This step is one of the strategies to adapt the national sugar swasemda.

President Director of PTPN III Mohammad Abdul Ghani said that organizations like this had never existed before. Later, the organization will carry out planting planning until it is finally harvested.

"So we are forming, maybe in two to three months it will be formed, namely the PTPN organization which specializes in handling people's sugar cane. Because so far there has been no SVP that will handle people's sugar cane from planning, starting planting, until later flying, "he said in a statement with Commission VI of the DPR, at the DPR Building, Parliament Complex, Tuesday, June 25.

Ghani said that the formation of this organization is one of the strategies to accelerate the achievement of national sugar self-sufficiency by 2028.

In developing the national sugar industry, continued Ghani, the government must take part in providing counseling ranging from planting techniques to logging to logging.

Including providing banking and bringing sugarcane farmers together with offtakers.

"Because in our opinion, the issue of sugar in Indonesia is not a factory issue and not a variety issue anymore, but an issue of how farmers grow sugar cane with the correct technical culture," he explained.

In addition, Ghani also proposed to form a sugar-commodated Public Service Agency (BLU) as applied to palm oil commodities through the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS).

That way, said Ghani, imported sugar entering Indonesia can be charged or levy. For example, IDR 1,000 per kg of imported sugar.

"There should be sugar. So when you say farmers' sugar, the basic price is IDR 12,000, when imports come in IDR 10,000, then there must be levy, say IDR 1,000," he said.

"The money is for farmers, not for PTPN or the private sector for farmers to help with research on seed varieties and others. That's our hope, maybe not in the short term but in the long term that we need to think about," he continued.