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Side by Side Palm Oil in West Sumatera

A large tree at PT. TKA Conservation forrest in West Sumatera, Indonesia on 04 September 2016. Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil that is derived from the palm fruit, grown on the African oil palm tree. Oil palms are originally from Western Africa, but can flourish wherever heat and rainfall are abundant. Today, palm oil is grown throughout Africa, Asia, North America, and South America, with 85% of all palm oil globally produced and exported from Indonesia and Malaysia; but most of the time not using sustainable measures. PT. Tidar Kerinci Agung owned by HASIM DJOJOHADIKUSUMO who have a large palm oil at West Sumatera divded into three region : Solok Selatan, Dhamasraya, and Bungo district giving big concern to the environtment by providing estimate 2,400 hectare of Forrest Conservation that fully protected with habitat such as Sumateran Tiger, Elephant, Sumateran Trees Tigers, and many more. For the people who live at the palm oil plantation the company also provide school from Junior to senior high school and bright students have the scholarship to university. Palm Oil Plantation is very complex issues regarding to the destruction of forrest and some use child labor for the production, what PT. TKA provide is a good example where business and human wellfare and the continuing of forrest habitat can live side by side. (Photo by Donal Husni/NurPhoto)

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