Working Visit of PT. KPBN to Kertajaya and Pasir Badak

The managers and new employees arrived at PT. Perkebunan Nusantara VIII Kertajaya Banten, at around 21.00 WIB. Upon arriving in Kertajaya, the team from PT. KPBN were warmly welcomed by the Manager of PTPN VIII, Mr. Wiku Saputro.

According to Mr. Amin Sarko as the HRD & General Manager said that "This working visit is to see the palm oil making process from the first stage to the last, where the new employees have to learn this process for product knowledge which will be useful as basic knowledge about palm oil production."

The agenda for the second day of the visit to the Kertajaya plantation, the employees visited the palm oil plantation and learned about the process from the planting, growth, to the fruiting which will be taken later and collected, weighed, and then there will be a process at the Kertajaya factory.

After that, all palm oil is processed in a palm oil factory through stages starting from the Sterilizer, thresher, digester, screw press until reaching the final process. The new employees were able to ask questions and see firsthand how the palm oil is made from the palm oil plantation, the factory, to the final stage in the laboratory. After that, in the afternoon, the PT KPBN team went to PT Perkebunan Nusantara VIII which is located in Pasir Badak, Pelabuhan Ratu.

At the end of the working visit, the new employees of PT KPBN saw firsthand the process of making rubber from the first stage to the production stage at the Pasir Badak factory, Pelabuhan Ratu. The new employees of PT KPBN were very enthusiastic to see all the processes that were carried out and hoped that this program would be there and carried out routinely when new employees were accepted. [LA]