The Quality of Rubber Plantations in Indonesia

The Quality of Rubber Plantations in Indonesia

 Countries actually do not need to increase the national rubber planting hectarage. Because the land of rubber Indonesia is the largest in the world, which is 3.4 million hectares (ha). Chairman of the Estates Strategic Sustainable Development Forum (FP2SB), Achmad Mangga Barani, said the increase in productivity become a major emphasis.Indonesia rubber production is still less than Thailand which became number one with production of 2.6 million tons. National rubber productivity is still low with an average of only 0.8 tons perhektare (ha)."There are still small compared to other Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia and Thailand, which had reached 1.5 to 1.7 million tons of thoughtful," he said at Hotel Kartika Chandra, Jakarta, Monday (26/9).While the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Krisnamurthi, said the national rubber productivity is still below one ton is very unfortunate. He explained there are two other factors must be considered to improve the competitiveness of Indonesian rubber.

First, supply management. This factor is to face the challenges of global markets in which there are three groups of major players in the world rubber market. Groups of Goodyear, Michellin and Bridgestone who rely on the synthetic rubber to compete with Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia that rely on natural rubber."We (Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia) is a great player because of the synthetic rubber can not be superior substitute for natural rubber," he told Reuters.Indonesia rubber prices in the international market currently ranges perton four American dollars. Therefore, Bayu Indonesia confirms standard setters should be a world rubber prices, not Dutch.Second, the quality. Factor of the quality of not only physical qualities such as rubber content. However, quality also includes traceability and sustainability of the rubber itself. In this case, Bayu highlights the many new factories than the production of crumb rubber rubber raw material itself is regulated in Presidential Decree No. 36 of 2010