Senin, 28 Maret 2011
Medan-ORBIT: Sawit beserta industrinya telah memasuki tahun ke seratus
di Indonesia. Selama itu, anggapan miring tentang keberadaan sawit
terus menguak.
Dimulai dari penilaian tentang buruh dan petani yang semakin terjerat
arus kemiskinan hingga rusaknya tatanan ekosistem. Bahkan mayoritas
industri sawit telah bersinggungan dengan penegakan HAM.
Dampak korporasi perkebunan sawit dapat kita lihat pada apa yang sudah
dan sedanng terjadi di wilayah Sumatera Utara (Sumut). Beberapa kasus
di antaranya konflik antara masyarakat dengan PT Nauli Sawit di
Tapanuli Tengah sejak tahun 2004.
Lalu permasalahan PT Lonsum yang diduga menyerobot beberapa lahan masyarakat.
Hal tersebut terungkap dalam sebuah Konferensi Alternatif dalam
menyikapi perayaan seratus tahun sawit di Indonesia.
Konferensi yang digelar di Balai Rasa Polonia Hotel Medan Minggu
(27/3) itu menghadirkan beberapa pembicara seperti George Junus
Aditjondro, Lely Zailani, Achmad Yakub dan beberapa peneliti lainnya.
George yang juga penullis buku Gurita Cikeas mengungkapkan satu dampak
yang belum begitu dipersoalkan masyarakat Sumut adalah sumbangan
perkebunan kelapa sawit terhadap pemanasan global.
Dikatakannya konversi (perubahan) hutan menjadi perkebunan kelapa
sawit tentu saja dimulai dari penebangan pepohonan yang semula berada
di lokasi yang dimaksud.
Namun permasalahan yang ada, katanya, adalah masyarakat harus memahami
siapa kekuatan yang bermain di balik keberadaan perkebebunan kelapa
sawit. Disebutkannya, stakeholder yang memiliki kekuatan sebagai
penopang perkebunan kelapa sawit di Indonesia.
“Setidaknya ada 17 perusahaan sawit swasta yang ditopang beberapa
stakeholder yang ada, “katanya. Selain itu, sambungnya, adanya
keterlibatan militer dalam upaya ekspansi (perluasan) kebun sawit.
Diungkapkannya dari studi kepustakaan maupun pengamatan terhadap
penyebaran perkebunan kelapa sawit menunjukkan ekspansi kebun sawit
yang berada di wilayah konflik dijaga oleh aparat Kopassus , Kostrad
dan Polri.
Sejak 2005, katanya, PT Tunas Sawa Erma membuka perkebunan kelapa
sawit seluas 14.461 hektare di Distrik Boven Digol yang semula pihak
keamanannya adalah seorang pensiunan TNI AD. “Sumut bukan hanya lahan
bermain perusahaan swasta melainkan ada beberapa perusahaan BUMN yang
bermain di sini,” kata George.
Eksploitasi Wanita
Sedangkan Aktivis Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) Dananng Widjo
dalam paparannya mengungkapkan perkebunan kelapa sawit sarat dengan
isu-isu korupsi. Dijelaskannya modus atau pola yangn menjadi jalan
masuk supaya korupsi adalah gratifikasi (suap).
Dengan memberikan gratifikasi kepada pejabat berwenang, kata Danang,
korporasi bisa menemui jalan lurus guna melakukan ekspansi di beberapa
wilayah khsususnya hutan. Dengan keadaan yang seperti itu, Danang
menilai perkebunan kelapa sawit tidak pernah berpihak kepada rakyat
yang semakin terjerat arus kepentingan elit kekuasaan.
Sementara itu, berbicara mengenai dampak sawit terhadap pemiskinan
buruh dan petani, Kordiantor Pelaksana Koalisi Rakyat Untuk
Kedaulatana pangan (KRKP) Witoro memaparkan, produsen pangan skala
kecil baik petani maupun buruh sering dianggap tidak produktif karena
memproduksi dengan skala kecil.
Dengan alasan seperti itu, mereka (buruh dan tani) tidak pernah
mendapat dukungan dari pemerintah.
Keberadaan seperti itu, menurutnya,
liberalisasi perdagangan dan berkembanganya agro industri yang
dikuasai perusahaan besar.
“Pemerintah berambisi untuk mnjadikan Indonesia sebagai penghasil
minyak nomor satu. Untuk itu luas perkebunan sawit akan terus
ditingkatkan dengan mengkesampingkan keberlanjutan usaha buruh dan
tani kecil tadi,” ujar Witoro.
Tak hanya itu, dampak ekspansi perkebunan sawit juga merambah pada
eksploitasi perempuan dan anak-anak pada perusahaan perkebunan sawit.
Pendiri Himpunan Serikat permepuan Indonesia (HAPSARI) Leli Zailani
mengungkapkan semakin meningnkatnya kebutuhan akan minyak dunia
mengharuskan pemerintah mengambil kesempatan yang ada. Hal tersebut
memberi dampak kepada para pencari kerja (pengangguran) untuk mencari
kerja .
“Dengan anggapan bahwa daripada nnganggur, maka wanita dan anak-anak
yang berada di sekitar lokasi usaha sawit akan berfikir untuk menerima
tawaran emas untuk mencari pendapatan yang ada dimata,” ujarnya.
Namun kata Leli, keadaan yangn menyatakan penyetaraan gender
menjadikan perusahaan seperti ‘berjasa’ karena telah memperkerjakan
wanita di zaman sekarang.
“Eksploitasi terhadap wanita dan anak-anak dalam kerangka industri
kelapa sawit adalah contoh nyata bagaimana sistem kapitalis bermain
cerdik dalam kerangka patriarki dan gender,” ujar Leli lagi. Om-12 sumber http://www.harianorbit.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:damnpak-perkebunan&catid=43:berita-nusantara-nasional&Itemid=18
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19.3.11
RI lobbies African nations for top FAO post
-->Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post,
Jakarta | Sat, 03/19/2011 2:18 PM | World
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Industry Minister M.S. Hidayat lobbied a number of African countries Friday to back Indonesia’s candidacy for the top post at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
“The industry ministry invited African ambassadors to a dinner to introduce me to them and to gain support from African nations,” Indroyono Susilo, the Indonesian candidate for FAO director general, told The Jakarta Post. He said Indonesia had the support of other ASEAN countries.
As the only candidate from Southeast Asia, Indroyono, who is also secretary to the coordinating public welfare minister, said Indonesia had extensive fisheries, forestry and natural disaster management systems that the country could contribute to the world organization.
He said it was important to integrate and connect food producing areas to areas that lacked foodand it was also important for developing countries to have their own standards and codification system on food they produced but not let them become new non-tariff barriers.
Indonesia, a member of FAO since 1949, received an FAO award for achieving rice self sufficiency in 1985. If Indroyono is elected, he would be the first Indonesian to head one of the UN’s top bodies.
An FAO conference in Rome in July will appoint a new director general for the period from Jan. 1, 2012, to July 31, 2015.
Food observer and economist Bustanul Arifin said an Indonesian candidate was suited to head the FAO as the country successfully mitigated the impact of the 2008 food crisis by focusing on domestic rice stock production and management.
“Indonesia can be a leader in international and regional cooperation for food reserves, starting from ASEAN+3 [China, Japan and South Korea],” he told the Post via text message.
The head of the national strategic studies division at the Indonesian Farmers’ Union (SPI), Achmad Ya’kub, said while he doubted Indroyono’s capability in leading the FAO, an Indonesian candidate was perfectly suited for the role.
“From what I know, Indroyono’s background is engineering, not agriculture. I’ve never heard of his contributions to Indonesian agricultural,” he told the Post.
“I’m not sure he well understands that we have 13 million small-scale farmers with a maximum
300 square meters of land each at a time when food security is promoted to the advantage of big corporations.”
Ya’kub said that to attain food security, what mattered was the availability of food, not who the producer or distributor was.
He added farmers, large and small alike, had been traditionally producing and distributing agricultural crops and food on their own.
Ya’kub cited a 2009-2010 FAO study that showed more than 1 billion people were starving, a large increase from the 825 million people in 1996, underlining the failure of the food security concept.
Candidates for FAO director general
Austria: Franz Fischler
Brazil: José Graziano da Silva
Indonesia: Indroyono Susilo
Iran: Mohammad Saeid Noori Naeini
Iraq: Abdul Latif Rashid
Spain: Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (www.fao.org)
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Industry Minister M.S. Hidayat lobbied a number of African countries Friday to back Indonesia’s candidacy for the top post at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
“The industry ministry invited African ambassadors to a dinner to introduce me to them and to gain support from African nations,” Indroyono Susilo, the Indonesian candidate for FAO director general, told The Jakarta Post. He said Indonesia had the support of other ASEAN countries.
As the only candidate from Southeast Asia, Indroyono, who is also secretary to the coordinating public welfare minister, said Indonesia had extensive fisheries, forestry and natural disaster management systems that the country could contribute to the world organization.
He said it was important to integrate and connect food producing areas to areas that lacked foodand it was also important for developing countries to have their own standards and codification system on food they produced but not let them become new non-tariff barriers.
Indonesia, a member of FAO since 1949, received an FAO award for achieving rice self sufficiency in 1985. If Indroyono is elected, he would be the first Indonesian to head one of the UN’s top bodies.
An FAO conference in Rome in July will appoint a new director general for the period from Jan. 1, 2012, to July 31, 2015.
Food observer and economist Bustanul Arifin said an Indonesian candidate was suited to head the FAO as the country successfully mitigated the impact of the 2008 food crisis by focusing on domestic rice stock production and management.
“Indonesia can be a leader in international and regional cooperation for food reserves, starting from ASEAN+3 [China, Japan and South Korea],” he told the Post via text message.
The head of the national strategic studies division at the Indonesian Farmers’ Union (SPI), Achmad Ya’kub, said while he doubted Indroyono’s capability in leading the FAO, an Indonesian candidate was perfectly suited for the role.
“From what I know, Indroyono’s background is engineering, not agriculture. I’ve never heard of his contributions to Indonesian agricultural,” he told the Post.
“I’m not sure he well understands that we have 13 million small-scale farmers with a maximum
300 square meters of land each at a time when food security is promoted to the advantage of big corporations.”
Ya’kub said that to attain food security, what mattered was the availability of food, not who the producer or distributor was.
He added farmers, large and small alike, had been traditionally producing and distributing agricultural crops and food on their own.
Ya’kub cited a 2009-2010 FAO study that showed more than 1 billion people were starving, a large increase from the 825 million people in 1996, underlining the failure of the food security concept.
Candidates for FAO director general
Austria: Franz Fischler
Brazil: José Graziano da Silva
Indonesia: Indroyono Susilo
Iran: Mohammad Saeid Noori Naeini
Iraq: Abdul Latif Rashid
Spain: Miguel Ángel Moratinos Cuyaubé
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (www.fao.org)
sumber http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/03/19/ri-lobbies-african-nations-top-fao-post.html</span>
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