REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Ministry of Agriculture has targeted 30 to 50 palm oil companies to be certified by Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) in 2013. Now
only 19 companies which have certificates.
"We estimate 30 to 50 palm oil companies by the end of the year," Secretary General of Ministry of Agriculture, Hari Priyono said on Tuesday.
ISPO certification mechanism is preceded by a scoring system of plantation business according to Decree of Minister of Agriculture No. 07/2009. A company must have good plantation management system. ISPO will introduce two certification schemes for sustainable palm oil, namely scheme for plasma farmers or smallholder plantation farmers and nonplasma farmers.