28 Oct 2016
RNI's President Director Didiek Prasetyo said amid the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the Utilization of Forest Areas for Sugarcane Farming in Jakarta, Wednesday (26/10), "The increase in the sugar plantation area is in line with the 2019 self-sufficiency sugar target program with a production target of about three million tons."
Three state-owned companies synergized to increase their sugar production, namely RNI, PTPN III, and Perum Perhutani.
According to Didik, currently RNI has seven sugar factories with 55,000 hectares of sugarcane plantation, including of right to cultivate and community cane.
In the collaboration, RNI will plant sugarcane on 20,000 hectares of land provided by Perhutani in KPH Indramayu, KPH Majalengka, and KPH Semarang.
He said the scope of the collaboration includes the provision of forest land for the sugarcane farming with the agroforestry model starting from the management of seeds, product shipment, production increase, and sugarcane productivity.
Furthermore, the empowerment of the community around the forest through sugarcane farming, provision of sugarcane farming experts, and provision and funding of the working capital for the collaboration on sugarcane farming with syndicated credit.
Meanwhile, Perhutani's President Director Denaldy M Mauna said in the future with the agroforestry model Perhutani will optimize the combination of forest and food plants, including sugarcane, forest trees and cattle (silvopasture), or with fish (silvofishery).
"With the 2.4 million hectares of forest land, in the future we will focus more on the agroforestry model while still following the rules of sustainable forest management. Currently, we are implementing a logging system with a 1:9 composition, meaning that for every hectare logged we replant nine times to maintain the sustainability of forest resources," Denaldy said.
In order to support food security, Denaldy said forest land has also been used for food crops such as rice, corn, soybeans, beans, and others according to forestry principles. (ant)
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