The Manpower Ministry has selected 11 of 30 palm oil companies in Pasaman District, West Sumatra Province, to be the recipients of zero accident awards, a local government official said in Simpang Empat on Sunday.
The zero accident awards from Manpower Minister M. Hanif Dhakiri for their success in ensuring the absence of work accidents from 2018 to early 2019 would be presented to the companies' representatives in Jakarta on Monday, Handra Pramana said.
According to Pramana, who is in charge of supervising the employment affairs at the West Sumatra provincial government's technical management unit, the ministry's awards show the government's attention to the companies implementing the law on safety in workplace.
The safety in workplaces was so important for each company because employees were legally protected, he said, adding that more palm oil companies in the district were expected to receive the similar awards in the upcoming years.
Among this year's awardees are PT Agro Wiratama POM, PT Agrowiratama Estate, PT Usaha Sawit Mandiri, PT Rimbo Panjang Sumber Makmur, PT Bakrie Plantation ,PT Bintara Tani Nusantara, PT Gersindo Minang Plantation, PT Andalas Agro Industri, PT Pasaman Marama, PT Sari Buah Sawit, and PT Perkebunan Pelalu Raya, he said.
Palm oil has become a hot issue for Indonesia and Malaysia after the European Parliament issued a ban on palm oil-based biofuels.
As a result, an increasingly heated diplomatic row has broken out in recent months between the European Parliament and Indonesia and Malaysia.
The Indonesian Government remains committed to defending the country's palm oil industries because they have a significant contribution to the efforts to decline poverty rate and absorb workforce.
The Indonesian Embassy in Brussels had held a dialog on the palm oil issue at the European Parliament office on April 4 themed, "Palm Oil Free: Facts, Fiction, and Misleading Claims," as part of its efforts at promoting Indonesia's sustainable palm oil.
The dialog was organized to seek wide-ranging views on the palm oil issue in Europe and to propose a unified effort to promote the nation's sustainable palm oil. (ant)
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April
The Ministry of Industry has projected that the food and beverage industry can grow above 9 percent in 2019 due to additional investment.
The government will continue to boost the performance of export-oriented industrial sectors, said Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto through his statement received in Jakarta on Sunday.
This year, the food and beverage industry, textiles and textile products (TPT), and footwear are ready to invest a total of Rp79 trillion. The food and beverage industry will pour Rp63 trillion in investment, up 11 percent from 2018. Then the footwear and TPT industry prepares investment of Rp2.8 trillion and Rp.14 trillion respectively, almost doubling from the previous year.
The government makes the labor-intensive industrial sub-sector an engine of manufacturing growth and a significant contributor to non-oil/non-gas exports.
In 2018, non-oil/non-gas exports were recorded at US $ 130 billion or increased by 3.98 percent compared to 2017.
"In 2018, its contribution reached 72.25 percent. So far, industry has become the biggest contributor, " he said. In addition, it means that the products of domestic manufacturing industry have talked a lot at the global level.
The Minister of Industry also noted that investment in the manufacturing industry sector continued to grow significantly.
In 2014, capital investment amounted to Rp195.74 trillion, then rose to Rp222.3 trillion in 2018. This increase in investment boosted employment of up to 18.25 million people in 2018, which contributed 14.72 percent to the total national workforce.
"From 2015 to 2018, there was a 17.4 percent increase and it is estimated that it can increase employment in 2019 along with the realization of investment," said the Minister of Industry. (ant)
The Ministry of Industry targets, throughout 2019 the growth of the manufacturing industry can reach 5.4 percent.
Subsidies that are estimated to grow high include food and beverage industry, machinery industry, textile and apparel industry, leather industry, leather goods, and footwear, as well as the metal goods industry, com computer and electronic goods
April
I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali continued its normal operations after Mount Agung in Karangasem District erupted early Sunday.
"Based on the results of a meeting, the Ngurah Rai Airport authorities decided that the airport must continue normal operations by taking into account all supporting data from all relevant stakeholders," chief of the airport's public relations Arie Ahsanurrohim said in Denpasar on Sunday.
Mount Agung again erupted on Sunday at 03.21 a.m. local time, sending a some 2,000-meter high flume of thick ash into the sky from its peak, which is some 5,142 meters above sea level.
Based on the result of a paper test conducted from 06.44 to 08.15 a.m. on Sunday, signs of very thin volcanic ash spread were found around the airport.
Later from 07.00 to 08.22 a.m. the LIDAR scan detected a spread of thin and uneven volcanic ash within a 0-1,500-meter radius of the airport at the altitude of 500 meters above land surface.
Arie said based on the result of aviation meteorological observation (METAR) conducted at 10.30 a.m. no signs of volcanic ash spread were found around the airport.
"The stakeholders will hold another meeting in case of significant change and discuss it comprehensively," he said.
Earlier, executive chief of the Bali Provincial Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) I Made Rentin said a column of thick gray ash from the eruption of Mount Agung moved in the southwesterly direction. The eruption was recorded in the seismogram with a maximum amplitude of 22 mm and a duration of 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Mount Agung has repeatedly erupted in recent years. The volcano also erupted on April 4, 2019 when it sent a nearly two thousand-meter-high flume of thick ash into the air from its peak.
The authorities have maintained the volcano’s alert status at level three and declared a danger zone within a four-kilometer radius of the crater.