The government is optimizing the national natural rubber towards a sustainable management and development system at the global level through the Sustainable Natural Rubber Platform of Indonesia (SNARPI). "I hope that SNARPI can become the main reference for issues related to national natural rubber sustainability and become the main door for collaboration with international organizations related to natural rubber sustainability at the global level," said Deputy Minister for Food and Agribusiness at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs Musdhalifah Machmud in information received in Jakarta, Tuesday. The SNARPI, which was carried out by the Grand Launching of SNARPI on March 30, 2022, specifically aims to raise the dignity and welfare of the farming community, and at the same time respond to the sustainability demands of the world rubber consumer market.
The platform conception is prepared, developed, and refined with the active involvement of multi-stakeholders in the national natural rubber. The development of this platform itself was initiated by three institutions namely GAPKINDO, Rainforest Alliance, and SNV Indonesia. Through several series of Focus Group Discussions which were followed up with several intensive working group level discussions, a General Guidelines for SNARPI were born. which was launched in conjunction with the SNARPI Grand Launching event. The SNARPI General Guidelines contain the principles and criteria for what is agreed to be a form of sustainable natural rubber in Indonesia, and are the basis for the preparation of sectoral guidelines.
These principles cover various issues, namely farmer welfare, good agricultural and processing practices, environment, natural resource management, biodiversity and ecosystems, human rights and indigenous peoples, health and safety of employees and consumers, collaboration and supply chain partnerships that are effective. fair and responsible, as well as systems and procedures for the realization of platform principles. In addition, SNARPI will be developed into a formal institution that is expected to oversee the implementation of the principles in the Main Guidelines. It is important for all stakeholders to actively participate and fully support the SNARPI agenda for the sake of a sustainable national rubber industry.
