President Director of PTPN III Elia Massa Manik said that PTPN has a 1.18 million-hectare land in Indonesia. Out of that total area, 833 thousand hectares is used to plant various commodities. The rest are used for infrastructure such as roads and offices. The largest planted commodity is oil palm, followed by rubber, sugar cane, tea, and others. The company will boost the production of its tea commodity which has a good potential. According to him, the national tea production is 130 thousand tons per year. And 70 percent of that amount is produced in West Java. Out of the 130 thousand tons, 50 percent is produced by PTPN. "One of the things that we have to improve is product quality. Many of our tea factories are old," Elia said at the Launching of PT Perkebunan Nusantara III's Re-design Leadership Development Program in the Plantation Education Institution (LPP) Yogyakarta, Monday (9/1/2017). Director of Human Capital of PTPN III (Persero), Seger Budiharjo, said that PTPN also conducted a mapping of its assets in order to develop and utilize them to their maximum potential. Many of PTPN's assets are now located in the middle of cities, especially those in Java, therefore the utilization of these assets must be reconsidered. "We will maximize the assets, the first step for us now is to map which ones are suitable to be developed," said Seger Budiharjo. PTPN's total planted area is 817.536 hectares, consisting of oil palm, rubber, sugar cane, tea, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, wood, and horticulture. Oil palm and sugar production has increased in the period of 2013-2015. On the other hand, tea and sugar production has decreased in the same period. Production of oil palm (oil and palm kernel), rubber, tea, and sugar in 2015 are 3.4 million tons, 184.38 thousand tons, 1.1 million tons, and 45 thousand tons respectively. (hns/hns)
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