PTPN Holding Appoints Dolly Pulungan As PTPN VII President Director

In an official statement received by Bisnis on Thursday morning (9/28/2017), PTPN Holding said it was restructuring the board of directors of PTPN VII.

"This change is in line with the company's transformation program that is committed to continuing to develop human resources. The goal is to improve business performance," said Dasuki Amir, President Director of Plantation State-Owned Enterprise PTPN III.

According to him, the restructuring of the board of directors was also carried out to achieve the targets of PTPN Holding in accordance with the 2017 RKAP. Dasuki also said that the state-owned plantation sector company was committed to showing positive performance.

In addition to appointing Dolly Pulungan as President Director of PTPN VII, the board of directors also appointed Muhammad Hanugroho, who previously served as Commercial Director of PTPN X, to be Commercial Director of PTPN VII, replacing Ganefi.

Also present at the handover ceremony were President Director of Plantation State-Owned Enterprise PTPN III (Persero) Dasuki Amsir, together with the President Commissioner of Plantation State-Owned Enterprise PTPN III (Persero) and PTPN VII, as well as members of the Board of Commissioners of PTPN VII and the board of directors of Plantation State-Owned Enterprise PTPN III (Persero).

Dolly Pulungan previously served as President Director of PT Garam. Dolly has a good reputation for fixing state-owned businesses that are in difficult conditions. Previously, Dolly Pulungan was Finance Director of PTPN X, President Director of PTPN XI, and now President Director of PT Berdikari. His last position was as President Director of PT Garam.

Last week, Plantation State-Owned Enterprise together with the Ministry of SOEs also changed the positions of seven commissioners at PTPN IV, PTPN V, PTPN XI, and PTPN XII.

The new commissioners appointed are as follows: Suwhono as President Commissioner of PTPN IV; Ageng Purboyo Angrenggono as member of the Board of Commissioners of PTPN V; Karyanto Suprih as Commissioner of PTPN XI; Dedi Mawardi as President Commissioner of PTPN XI; HJG Winachyu as Independent Commissioner of PTPN XI; Tjahya Widayanti as Commissioner of PTPN XII; Tri Siswanto as Independent Commissioner of PTPN XII.

Plantation State-Owned Enterprise is the parent company of PTPN I to PTPN XIV, which was established under Government Regulation No. 72/2014. 90% of the shares of PTPN I to PTPN XIV are owned by Plantation State-Owned Enterprise and the remaining 10% are owned by the government.

Plantation State-Owned Enterprise has a business scope consisting of plant cultivation, production, trade, business development in the plantation sector, Agrotourism, Agribusiness, Agroindustry, Agroforestry, and other businesses with total assets of around Rp113 trillion as of April 2017.

The commodities managed on 1.18 million hectares of land are palm oil, rubber, sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, various types of wood, fruits, and various other plants.

Sources: www.industri.bisnis.com & www.sawitindonesia.com