JAKARTA - The Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDP) officially signed a Cooperation Agreement for the Palm Oil Plantation Human Resources Education Program for the 2025 school year amounting to IDR 705.6 billion.
President Director of BPDP Eddy Abdurrachman said that the signing of the scholarship program cooperation agreement was carried out with 41 educational institutions from almost all islands in Indonesia.
"This cooperation funding support is provided for various levels of education, ranging from the D1, D2, D3, D4, to S1 programs with 71 study programs," he explained in Jakarta, Wednesday, August 20, 2025.
Eddy said that the agreed value of the cooperation reached Rp705.6 billion with a total of 4,000 scholarship recipients.
He conveyed that there were 4,000 scholarship recipients consisting of 490 D1 programs; D2 programs as many as 150 people; D3 programs as many as 1,440 people; D4 programs as many as 870 people; and S1 programs as many as 1,050 people.
Eddy said that this activity was part of the development program of palm oil plantation human resources in realizing a sustainable palm oil industry and increasing the productivity of oil palm plantations.
The development of palm oil plantation human resources is a major milestone in realizing sustainable palm oil. This is one of the programs that are the focus on BPDP's strategic plans in conjunction with other programs in integrating the development of the palm oil sector from upstream to downstream," he said.
Eddy added that the government through BPDP has contributed to the development of palm oil plantation human resources since 2016. Until now, the recipients of the scholarship program have reached 9,265 people.
"The realization of the distribution of funds for the development program of palm oil plantation human resources until 2025 has reached Rp938 billion," he explained.
In the process of selecting prospective recipients of the Sawit HR scholarship, BPDP collaborates with the Directorate General of Plantation of the Ministry of Agriculture. Some of the requirements for prospective recipients of the Palm Oil HR Scholarship are those from oil palm plantations; family of oil palm plantations; employees/workers in oil palm plantation businesses; family of employees/workers in oil palm plantation businesses; plantation institutional management in oil palm plantations; oil palm plantation association administrators; state civil servants (ASN) who work in the field of oil palm plantations and extension workers who work in oil palm plantation areas.
In addition, he conveyed that BPDP received a mandate in selecting candidates for the organization for the development of palm plantation human resources (LPP SDM PKS) and producing cooperation with institutions that organize the development of PKS human resources from almost all provinces of Indonesia.
For information, BPDP cooperates with 22 campuses on the island of Sumatra which include Aceh Polytechnic (D3), South Aceh Polytechnic (D3), Venezuelan Indonesia Polytechnic (D3), Kutaraja Polytechnic (D4), Lhoksumawe State Polytechnic (D3), Teuku Umar University (S1), Medan Agricultural Development Polytechnic (D4), Indonesian Palm Oil Institute (D4 and S1), Indonesia Prima University (S1), North Sumatra Islamic University (S1), Tjut Nyak Dhien University (S1), Industrial Chemical Technology Polytechnic (D3), Kampar Polytechnic (D2, D3 and D4), Riau Caltex Polytechnic (D4), Indonesian Volunteer Institute of Engineering Technology (S1), Bandar Pengaraian Sand University (S1), Kuning Lancang University (S1), Padang AtI Polytechnic (D3 and D4), Taman Siswa University (S1), West Sumatra Muhammadiyah University (S1), Jambi Polytechnic (D3), and Jambi University (D3).
On the island of Java, 10 campuses include Borobudur University (S1), Citra Widya Education Palm Oil Polytechnic (D3 and D4), Bandung Institute of Science Technology (D3), University of Indonesian Cooperatives (S1), Diponegoro University Vocational School (D4), Tunas Development University (S1), Yogyakarta Plantation Community Academy (D1 and D2), STIPER Agricultural Institute (S1), Plantation Education Institute Polytechnic (D2, D3 and D4), and YKPN Polytechnic (D3).
Then, there is cooperation with three campuses on the island of Kalimantan, namely Lambung Mangkurat University (S1), Samarinda State Agriculture Polytechnic (D3), and Nahdlatul Ulama University (S1).
On Sulawesi Island, there are five campuses, namely the Makassar ATI Polytechnic (D3), Bantaeng Manufacturing Industry Community Academics (D2), Bombana Polytechnic (D4), Hasanuddin University (S1), and Southeast Sulawesi University (S1).
Finally, on the island of Papua it involves a campus, namely the Manokwari Agricultural Development Polytechnic (D4).
Furthermore, he conveyed, in accordance with Presidential Regulation Number 132 of 2024, the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency has transformed into the Plantation Fund Management Agency, where there is an additional task of managing two new commodities, namely coconut and cocoa.
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Eddy conveyed that BPDP will carry out the task of managing these two new commodities, the same as the programs that have been carried out on palm oil.
BPDP has also prepared various human resource development programs for coconut and cocoa commodities in collaboration with the Directorate General of Plantation of the Ministry of Agriculture.
"BPDP is committed to supporting government programs in order to improve the skills and knowledge and competence of plantation human resources and continue to make efforts to improve services for stakeholders so that the goal of developing the national plantation industry can be achieved," concluded Eddy.
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