Palm Oil Plantation Asset Management by PT. Agrinas Palma Nusantara Must Be Transparent and Pro-People
Author: Jacob Ereste
Freelance Journalist
Management of palm oil plantations and their derivative industries to realize food and energy self-sufficiency as intended by Asta Cita initiated by President Prabowo Subianto, PT. Agrinas Palma Nusantara (Persero) will build a work system that is not only based on assets and productivity, but also refers to resources and sustainability.
A number of confiscated assets belonging to the Duta Palma Group which were entrusted by the Attorney General’s Office to the Ministry of SOEs which were then handed over to PT. Agrinas Alma Nusantara (Persero) faced problems because it only received and processed physical assets in the form of 221 thousand hectares of palm oil plantation land, faro assets spread across the Provinces of Riau and West Kalimantan as well as ship transportation. Meanwhile, the Duta Palma Company as a whole and the operational employees who work in Jakarta are not included as part of those entrusted to be managed by PT. Agrinas Palma Nusantara.
From various sources, the Atlantica Institute Nusantara has a collection of data that reveals no less than 21,000 employees of PT. Duta Alma Group who are threatened with losing their jobs, if Agrinas Palma Nusantara does not immediately take over the management of human resource assets in the seized Company along with its employees. The confiscation of this palm oil plantation company by Agrinas Palma Nusantara is a continuation of the confiscation carried out by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia related to corruption involving the owner of this company, namely Surya Darmadi. Of course, the impact is significant on the management of the company including the blocking of accounts and the confiscation of other assets that are so many, so that workers have no job security, including their future. Because in the takeover of the management of the palm oil plantation business in the context of sustainability, it must include the fate of workers in the company. If not, then the takeover carried out by PT. Agrinas Palma Nasional. Unless the workers’ future with their families is threatened, the confiscated palm oil plantation company will stall, no longer able to run as it should. Moreover, it seems that the management of PT. Agrinas Palma Nasional itself is not transparent and also wants to take advantage of the opportunity in the narrowness to benefit themselves.
This means that PT. Agrinas Palm Nasional must not only save state assets and manage them in a better way than the condition of the plantation that has committed the violation, but must also save the local environment and the community who also depend heavily on the income from the palm oil plantation, but must also be able to increase better and higher quality harvests in terms of quality and quantity that are beneficial to the country.
Meanwhile, from various records, no less than 1.1 million hectares of illegal palm oil land will also be returned to the state to be managed by P. Agrinas Palma Nasional. From the return of land obtained, there are around 1,177,194.34 hectares of palm oil land that are illegally controlled by individuals, companies or cooperatives that are on state-owned land.
According to the Head of the PKH Task Force, the return of millions of hectares of illegal palm oil land to the state is based on Presidential Regulation No. 5 of 2025. Of the 64 regencies, there are around 369 palm oil companies that are in the process of being regulated, he said on March 26, 2025. Around 221,878,421 hectares have been handed over to PT. Agrinas Palma Nusantara Persero on March 10, 2025. Of the 215,997, 75 hectares came from 109 companies.
Then what about the fines for violations of illegal land use that have been going on for decades?
So it is clear, the management system for illegal palm oil plantations that have been taken over by Agrinas Palma Nasional must be transparent and conducive in nature in treating workers, both those who are directly on the plantation and those in regional and central offices. Because the purpose of Agrinas Palma Nusantara itself is not only to take over, but to carry out better and more beneficial governance for the people, the moon is only for the country. Moreover, it only wants to be used by its managers.
Banten, June 2, 2025
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