RNI Hold Mega Eltra

JAKARTA: PT Mitra Ogan Plantation and PT Astra Kartika Barrel, two subsidiaries of PT (Persero) Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (RNI), which is engaged in oil palm plantations, together with PT Mega Eltra as a provider of fertilizer.
Leaders of three state-owned enterprises (SOEs) signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Jakarta on Thursday, as the form of efforts to increase crop productivity.
"Fertilizer has a very vital role in crop quality. Therefore, the assuredness of the availability of fertilizer is non-negotiable in the plantation industry," said Director of PT RNI Ismed Hasan Putro in a statement received here on Friday, July 13 of 2012.
PT RNI are very serious in the development of palm oil to meet growing business with investments amounting to Rp496, 06 billion or 41 percent of the total investment allocated to the palm.
In fact, the word Ismed, in 2012, PT RNI plans to expand oil palm plantation and the addition of palm oil processing plants and garden area of ​​17 400 hectares with a total investment of Rp870 billion in South Sumatra.
According to him, CPO production in 2011 a subsidiary of PT RNI reached 89 698 tonnes of palm kernel and as many as 20 518 tons.
Expected with this cooperation, the fertilizer will be the right product, the right kind and right price.
Furthermore Ismed said fertilizer such as is in accordance with the principle of "good corporate governance" that is transparency, independence, accountability, responsibility and justice, so avoid fraud attempts.
"The purchase of fertilizers in large quantities through a single company will of course be cheaper when compared to retail purchases, one by one with the subsidiary.," He said.
"Monitoring the purchase of fertilizer can also be done effectively, given the holding company can control in terms of quantity, quality and payment." Present at the signing of this cooperation Managing Director of PT Pupuk Sriwijaya Eko Sunarko and Managing Director of PT Mega Eltra Fauzi Yusuf.
PT Mega Eltra, a subsidiary of PT Pupuk Sriwijaya, a direct distributor of fertilizer and plant fertilizer supplies obtained from a number of national fertilizer industry such as PT Pupuk Kaltim, PT Petro Chemical Fertilizer, PT Pupuk Iskandar Muda and PT Pupuk Kujang, apart from PT Pupuk Sriwijaya.
Beware of cheap fertilizer Fertilizer Sriwijaya Eko Sunarko CEO says it reminds the user of fertilizer wary of sellers of fertilizer with a relatively cheap price.
"There is nothing impossible to sell fertilizer with a relatively low price than the sale of fertilizer PT Pupuk Sriwijaya," said Eko.
He stated that the fertilizer is sold at relatively low prices has been mixed with other substances, and not according to specifications.
Assuredness of supply and not be tricked by a supplier of fertilizer are among the reasons that pushed PT RNI to buy fertilizer from fellow state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
"We buy fertilizer from private trauma," said Ismed. "Cooperation among state that does not mean we are anti-private." (Ant)