Palm | Kelapa Sawit

Nusa Dua - Indonesia Palm Oil Association (Gapki) re-entered Indonesian Palm Oil Conference (IPOC) at the Bali International Convention Center, Nusa Dua, Bali.

Activities with the theme: "Sustainable Palm Oil: Drivers of Change" and involve all stake holders perkelapasawitan industry is a routine event that the 7th and lasts for
3 days in Nusa Dua, Bali, since 30 November 2011. Total participants reached 1100 participants from 23 countries.

In addition to discussing the challenges and opportunities in the future oil industry, this activity is also filled with educational exhibits. "We feature 10 high school students who represent the areas of oil palm plantations in Indonesia," said Mona Surya, Chairman of the Committee IPOC 2011. "We hope people can see the oil industry with an increasingly more objective view," he continued. Moreover, according to Mona, during this time many distractions from the outside that seeks to spread a negative image of the oil industry.

Sustainability theme was chosen because of Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) wants to educate the public and industry stakeholders perkelapasawitan that the oil industry must grow and develop to achieve these targets as well as market demands without negative impact. "That is, how do we keep growing by pressing the negative environmental impact to a minimum," said David Darsono, one chairman IPOC 2011.

Demands and attention the world community today is how to manage the oil palm industry to meet the 3P principle, namely People, Planet and Profit. Sustainable management of palm oil industry has also been a demand from industrial users and stakeholders, so that sustainability is a factor that will determine the direction and the transformation of oil palm industry in the future.

According to him, IPOC 2011 increasingly important for Indonesia's palm oil industry. In addition to spreading perkelapasawitan conditions in the homeland also for the sake of building network. "Therefore, on this occasion also re-affirmed the position Gapki who recently quit the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)," he said. (Ic)