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INTRODUCTION

Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, sharinga tree, or, most commonly, the rubber tree, is a tree
belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the most economically important member of the
genus Hevea. It is of major economic importance because the milky latex extracted from the tree is the
primary source of natural rubber.

The Pará rubber tree initially grew only in the Amazon Rainforest. Increasing demand and the discovery
of the vulcanization procedure in 1839 led to the rubber boom in that region, enriching the cities
of Belém and Manaus. The name of the tree derives from Pará, the second-largest Brazilian state, the
capital of which is Belém.

These trees were used to obtain rubber by the natives who inhabited its geographical distribution.
The Olmec people of Mesoamerica extracted and produced similar forms of primitive rubber from
analogous latex-producing trees such as Castilla elastica as early as 3600 years ago. The rubber was
used, among other things, to make the balls used in the Mesoamerican ballgame. Early attempts were
made in 1873 to grow H. brasilensis outside Brazil. After some effort, 12 seedlings were germinated at
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These were sent to India for cultivation, but died. A second attempt
was then made, some 70,000 seeds being smuggled to Kew in 1875, by Henry Wickham, at the service
of the British Empire. About 4% of these germinated, and in 1876, about 2000 seedlings were sent,
in Wardian cases, to Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) and 22 were sent to the Botanic Gardens in
Singapore. Once established outside its native country, rubber was extensively propagated in the
British colonies. Rubber trees were brought to the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, in 1883. By
1898, a rubber plantation had been established in Malaya, and today, most rubber tree plantations are
in South and Southeast Asia, with some also in tropical West Africa.

Efforts to cultivate the tree in South America (Amazon) were unsatisfactory because of blight. The
blight, called South American leaf blight, is caused by the Ascomycota, Microcyclus ulei
or Pseudocercospora ulei.

Natural rubber 1 , also called caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic
compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds plus water. Forms of
polyisoprene that are used as natural rubbers are classified as elastomers. Currently, rubber is
harvested mainly in the form of the latex from certain trees. The latex is a sticky, milky colloid drawn off
by making incisions into the bark and collecting the fluid in vessels in a process called "tapping". The
latex then is refined into rubber ready for commercial processing. Natural rubber is used extensively in
many applications and products, either alone or in combination with other materials. In most of its
useful forms, it has a large stretch ratio and high resilience, and is extremely waterproof.

Rubber latex is extracted from rubber trees. The economic life period of rubber trees in plantations is
around 32 years – up to 7 years of immature phase and about 25 years of productive phase.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber

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The soil requirement of the plant is generally well-drained, weathered soil consisting of laterite, lateritic
types, sedimentary types, nonlateritic red, or alluvial soils.

The climatic conditions for optimum growth of rubber trees are:

• Rainfall of around 250 cm evenly distributed without any marked dry season and with at least
100 rainy days per year

• Temperature range of about 20 to 34°C, with a monthly mean of 25 to 28°C

• High atmospheric humidity of around 80%

• Bright sunshine amounting to about 2000 hours per year at the rate of six hours per day
throughout the year

• Absence of strong winds

Many high-yielding clones have been developed for commercial planting. These clones yield more than
2,000 kg of dry rubber per hectare per year, when grown under ideal conditions.

Rubber tree (Hevea brasilliensis) is one of the main agricultural commodities of Indonesia, so it has a
good prospect for the future. Therefore, the efforts to increase farm productivity of rubber (Hevea
brasilliensis) through introduction the new technologies and use some goods quality clones
continuously improved. Indonesia is one of world's rubbers exporting country in Asia. More than half of
the rubber used today is synthetic, but several million tonnes of natural rubber are still produced every
year, and still is an important material for several industries including automotive and military.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................. i
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................ iii
BINTAN PRIMA AGRO PLANTATION PROFILE ....................................................................................... 1
LOCATION ................................................................................................................................................ 1
CIKOLE DIVISION ................................................................................................................................ 1
KANGBOY DIVISION ........................................................................................................................... 5
TREES FIGURE ................................................................................................................................... 6
PLANTATION PROJECT AND PROGRAM 2014 ....................................................................................... 8
NUTRIENT PROGRAMS ......................................................................................................................... 8
ORGANIC NUTRIENT .......................................................................................................................... 8
CHEMICAL NUTRIENT ...................................................................................................................... 12
REGULAR PROGRAMS ........................................................................................................................ 15
MECHANICAL CLEARING ................................................................................................................ 15
CHEMICAL HERBICIDE .................................................................................................................... 15
LAND RECOVERY ................................................................................................................................. 17
SOCIAL PROJECT ................................................................................................................................. 21
TUNNEL NORMALIZATION IN KM 36 .............................................................................................. 21
WORKERS GATHERING .................................................................................................................. 23
BUDGET FOR 2015 ................................................................................................................................... 24

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BINTAN PRIMA AGRO PLANTATION PROFILE
LOCATION
BPA’s Rubber Plantation are located in District of Toapaya (Kecamatan Toapaya). Total area of BPA’s
Plantation are about 540 Ha. It was divided into two regions/divisions, first division is Cikolek Division
which located in Cikolek Village with 246 Ha of cultivated area
area from total area 313 Ha and another area
is Muat’s Location with Total area about 16 Ha. The second Division is Kangboy which located in
Kangboy Village with 172 Ha of cultivated area from total area 210 Ha. Below are the details of each
division profile.

CIKOLE DIVISION
Cikolek Division was started on 2009 as the renewal of old traditional rubber plantation. Cikolek consist
of 6 Locations :

1. Location KM 33

Inside KM 33 there are 25 blocks with average 4 to 5 Years old rubber trees.

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2. Location KM 34

KM 34 consist of 33 Blocks with average 3 Years old rubber trees

3. Location KM 35

KM 35 consist of 15 blocks with area mostly low land and swamp. The recovery project (swamp
drainage) 26 Ha still in progress to get more productive area to plant.

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4. Location KM 36

In KM 36 we have 14 Blocks with average 3 to 4 years old rubber trees. Recovery project from
September 2014 to September 2015 has recovered 19.22 Ha.

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5. Location Kebun Dalam

Kebun Dalam consist of 28 Blocks with variety Age between 2 Years to 4 Years old rubber
trees.

6. Muat’s Location

Consist of 8 Blocks with average 3 years old rubber trees. Muat’s location also have a block for
fruit trees project in Block B21

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KANGBOY DIVISION
Kangboy division
sion was started on 2012 with 75 Blocks inside. The trees age in Kangboy between 0
Years to 3 Years old.

3 Years
2 Years

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TREES FIGURE
Below are served some data about trees figure in Cikolek and kangboy.

No Area Block Number Trees number Additional trees/New Planting

2014 2015 2014 2015 2015
1 Cikolek 123 135 123.852 139.952 16.100
2 Kangboy 70 73 70.313 74.531 4.218
Total 193 208 194.165 214.483 20.318

9.3 Ha Planted (4.650 trees)

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 New Planting 22.9 Ha (11.450 Trees)

New Planting 9.5 Ha (4.218 trees)

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PLANTATION PROJECT AND PROGRAM 2014

Below are the summary of project and program applied in BPA’s Plantation 2015:

NUTRIENT PROGRAMS

BPA has combined the techniques of nutrient providing in rubber plantation to keep continuity of

nutrient.

ORGANIC NUTRIENT

Below are the organic material that has been applied in location.

Black Soil / Factory waste.

Black soil rich of organic nutrient that needed by the trees. Black soil is a waste product or Lump

Rubber residual. There are some weakness and advantage of Black soil/ Factory waste.

Advantage :

• Black soil can support critical/poor area and provide nutrient for 3 months. Rich of Nutrient,

Macro and Micro nutrient, can restore the growth become normal.

Weakness :

• Erosion Problem/ not resist with erosion.

• Need big quantity to sufficient trees nutrient.

• Slow release.

• For smaller tree/new plant, new black soil from boxes can be toxic because of acid

contaminant.

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Chicken Manure
Chicken manure is a good nutrient for the trees, can boost the growth, fast release.

in Cikolek we give it directly for the trees with the dosage, 1 bag for 4 trees.

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Semi Liquid Bokashi
Mixed Chicken manure + Back Soil (Semi Liquid Bokashi) fermented with EM4 (Effective Micro-Micro
Organism) is really effective to boost
st growth of small trees, this method applied in Kangboy.

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CHEMICAL NUTRIENT
There are 3 chemical fertilizer that we have used for sufficient the nutrient :

Urea, NPK, and Dolomite.

Urea
Urea or carbamide is an organic compound with the chemical formula CO(NH2)2. The molecule has two
–NH2 groups joined by a carbonyl (C=O) functional group.

Urea serves an important role in the metabolism of nitrogen-containing

nitrogen containing compounds by animals,
animals and is
the main nitrogen containing substances in the urine of mammals.
mammals. It is colorless, odorless solid, highly
soluble in water, and practically non toxic.

More than 90% of world industrial production of urea is destined for use as a nitrogen-release
nitrogen release fertilizer.
Urea has the highest nitrogen content of all solid nitrogenous
nitrogenous fertilizers in common use. Therefore , it
has the lowest transportation costs per unit of nitrogen nutrient. The standard crop-nutrient
crop nutrient rating (NPK
ratig) of urea is 46-0-0.

Urea is usually spread at rates of between 40 and 300 kg/Ha but rates vary. Smaller
Smaller applications incur
lower losses dueto leaching. During summer, urea is often spread just before or during rain to minimize
losses from volatilization (process wherein nitrogen is lost to the atmosphere as ammonia gas). Urea is
not compatible with other fertilizers.

Urea applied only in some parts of Cikolek area especially for small trees and trees that will get extra
treatment to stimulate the trees.

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NPK
NPK fertilizers are three-component fertilizers providing nitrogen(N), phosphorus(P), and potassium(K).
NPK rating is a rating system describingmthe amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in a
fertilizer. NPK ratings consist of three numbers separated by dashes (e.g., 10-10-10 or 16-4-8)
describing the chemical content of fertilizers.

Three main macronutrients in NPK :

• Nitrogen (N) : leaf growth;

• Phosphorus (P) : Development of roots, flowers, seeds, and fruit;
• Potassium (K) : strong stem growth, movement of water in plants, promotion of flowering and
fruiting.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer)

BPA plantation implements 2 times application a Year every May and November with 100 Gr/tree
dosages. In the weather circle, May is the end of rain season (short season: April only) and November
is the beginning of rain season (long season: End of October to End of January).

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Dolomite/Kieserite
Dolomite is a mineral that contain nutrients; Magnesium (Mg) and Calcium (Ca) in the form of powder
with the chemical formula CaMg(CO3)2.

Dolomite is the main solution for agriculture, plantations and farms are cultivated on soil that reacts
acidic. Magnesium in Dolomite to help trees/crop healing from stress and adaptation of new
environment. Mg also can increase the trees immunity from disease and fungus. Plant suffering from
Mg or Magnesium Deficiency can be characterized by yellowing of leaves, thus losing the ability to
absorb CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) and produce O2.

Calcium (Ca) in Dolomite/Kieserite is able to neutralize the PH environment in rooting area.

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REGULAR PROGRAMS
There are some regular programs in BPA plantation for grass clearing, mechanical and chemical
clearing.

MECHANICAL CLEARING
Mechanical slashing use brush cutter machines. Now we use 2-strokes engine brush cutter machine,
last October We has introduced 4-Strokes engine that claimed more efficient in fuel consumption and
spark plug.

Clearing grass using machine, machine specification below:

Honda Grass Slashing Machine

Engine Type : 4 Stroke Engine

Oil/Usage : Yamalube 4T/800ml
Weight : Avg 8 Kgs
Fuel : Gasoline
Fuel Consumption : 2 Liters/Day

Grass slashing technique using growth line cutting / only apply in growth line.

CHEMICAL HERBICIDE
Herbicide we have used in Plantation are Glyphosate and methyl metsulfuron. The combination of this
two types of herbicide can create wide spectrum of a lot types of grass.

Two techniques of herbicide application are Line system and circle system. In Kangboy we used Line
system for controlling grass also to prevent erosion. In Cikolek we used circle system also to control
and prevent erosion. In Kangboy application of line system adjusted of planting pattern 3 x 6 m, can
create clear line along tree line. In Cikole cannot applied line system because the planting pattern is 4 x
4 m, it will consumes more herbicide for application, so we use circle system. The application of these
techniques for Over 1 Years old tree. In 2015 Cikolek start applying Line system in some area in Kebun
Dalam, KM 34, KM 35, and KM 36.

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Line System Application

Circle Technique

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LAND RECOVERY
Land recovery is an effort to grab non-productive
non productive land (Swamp/payao) becoming a productive land by
creating the drainage system and clearing the forest in Swamp/payao area to get more land for
planting. The Recovery Project using Excavator or we called “Kobe”.

This project has been start on September 2013. On 2014 we have got the land recovery 19.22 Ha in
KM 36 then continue again on September 2014 to October
October 2015 with the result 22.9 Ha in KM 35. The
rest of land to be recovered in KM 35 is 9.38 Ha, This part of project has been started in November
2015 and will be finished in March 2016.

Recovery Project 2014 Location KM 36

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September 2014 to October 2015

Total Area Recovered : 22.9 Ha

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November 2015 – March 2016 Recovery Project (in progress)

Total Area : 9.38 Ha

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April to December 2016 Recovery Project Planning

Total Area : 17.38 Ha

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SOCIAL PROJECT

TUNNEL NORMALIZATION IN KM 36
Project started on December 14th 2015 and finished on December 15th 2015, using excavator to
normalize tunnel along 150 meter to prevent flood in plantation neighbour and road.

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WORKERS GATHERING

This gathering event was held on 4th July 2015 also invite some society and village officers.

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BUDGET FOR 2015

Month Cikolek Kangboy Kobe Operator Night Watcher Jaga Kebun Total
January Rp66,019,092.00 Rp28,946,121.00 Rp3,744,000.00 Rp930,000.00 Rp99,639,213.00
February Rp6,787,087.00 Rp29,620,561.00 Rp3,864,000.00 Rp840,000.00 Rp41,111,648.00
March Rp31,982,550.00 Rp29,051,233.00 Rp3,696,000.00 Rp600,000.00 Rp65,329,783.00
April Rp32,999,322.00 Rp31,146,121.00 Rp3,864,000.00 Rp900,000.00 Rp2,000,000.00 Rp70,909,443.00
May Rp33,283,986.00 Rp31,193,565.00 Rp3,864,000.00 Rp930,000.00 Rp2,000,000.00 Rp71,271,551.00
June Rp32,524,882.00 Rp30,624,237.00 Rp4,148,000.00 Rp900,000.00 Rp2,000,000.00 Rp70,197,119.00
July Rp30,342,458.00 Rp29,011,141.00 Rp3,192,000.00 Rp120,000.00 Rp2,000,000.00 Rp64,665,599.00
August Rp32,999,322.00 Rp31,003,789.00 Rp3,864,000.00 Rp750,000.00 Rp2,000,000.00 Rp70,617,111.00
September Rp33,196,450.00 Rp31,193,565.00 Rp4,032,000.00 Rp900,000.00 Rp4,000,000.00 Rp73,322,015.00
October Rp32,247,557.00 Rp30,814,013.00 Rp2,600,000.00 Rp930,000.00 Rp4,000,000.00 Rp70,591,570.00
November Rp34,335,106.00 Rp30,719,125.00 Rp3,864,000.00 Rp750,000.00 Rp4,000,000.00 Rp73,668,231.00
December Rp34,335,106.00 Rp30,719,125.00 Rp3,864,000.00 Rp750,000.00 Rp4,000,000.00 Rp73,668,231.00
Total Rp401,052,918.00 Rp364,042,596.00 Rp44,596,000.00 Rp9,300,000.00 Rp26,000,000.00 Rp844,991,514.00
AVG cost/month Rp33,421,076.50 Rp30,336,883.00 Rp3,716,333.33 Rp775,000.00 Rp2,166,666.67 Rp70,415,959.50

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Urea 2015
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total
January 634 0 634 3000
February 100 425 525
2500
March 50 0 50
April 100 100 200 2000
May 0 0 0
1500
June 150 0 150
Cikolek
July 0 80 80 1000
August 0 0 0 Kangboy
September 75 470 545 500
October 175 140 315 0
November 2725 120 2845
December 0 400 400
4009 1735 5744

UREA USAGE DURING 2015

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Kotoran
Ayam 2015 1400
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total 1200
January 368 109 477
1000
February 204 150 354
March 168 0 168 800
April 520 70 590 600
May 0 0 0 Cikolek

June 62 109 171 400 Kangboy

July 0 45 45 200
August 32 0 32 0
September 281 200 481
October 522 151 673
November 354 60 414
December 1200 200 1400
3711 1094 4805

CHIKEN MANURE USAGE DURING 2015

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Kotoran
Sapi 2015 600
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total
500
January 66 109 175
February 200 196 396 400
March 418 0 418
300
April 200 70 270
Cikolek
May 0 0 0 200
June 0 109 109 Kangboy
July 0 45 45 100
August 0 0 0 0
September 0 500 500
October 0 172 172
November 0 60 60
December 0 168 168
884 1429 2313

COW MANURE USAGE DURING 2015

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Kent Up
(oplos) 2015 600
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total
January 190 411 601 500
February 15 245 260 400
March 485 0 485
April 35 75 110 300
May 40 45 85 Cikolek
200
June 62 411 473 Kangboy
July 240 220 460 100
August 0 0 0
0
September 275 0 275
October 55 170 225
November 100 0 100
December 0 0 0
1497 1577 3074

MIXED ROUND UP USAGE DURING 2015

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Bibit PB 260
(Tanam) 2015 3500
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total
3000
January 0 0 0
February 0 0 0 2500
March 1000 0 1000 2000
April 1500 2590 4090
1500
May 0 0 0 Cikolek
June 1000 139 1139 1000 Kangboy
July 50 0 50 500
August 0 0 0
0
September 0 200 200
October 3000 176 3176
November 1000 0 1000
December 1000 0 1000
8550 3105 11655

PB260 STUMPS USAGE DURING 2015

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Solar 2015 2500
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total
January 1800 50 1850 2000
February 1890 95 1985
March 1230 100 1330 1500
April 1800 150 1950
May 1770 100 1870 1000 Cikolek
June 1980 50 2030 Kangboy
July 330 75 405 500

August 1590 100 1690

0
September 2070 150 2220
October 2100 125 2225
November 1560 100 1660
December 1560 100 1660
19680 1195 20875

SOLAR (DIESE FUEL) USAGE DURING 2015

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Bensin 2015
Month Cikolek Kangboy Total
January 669 90 759 800
February 141 141 282 700
March 334.5 191 525.5
600
April 348 170 518
500
May 220.5 276 496.5
June 214.5 90 304.5 400
July 324 134.5 458.5 300 Cikolek
August 433.5 140 573.5 200 Kangboy
September 420 163 583 100
October 426 227 653
0
November 328 306.5 634.5
December 350 175 525
4209 2104 6313

GASOLINE USAGE DURING 2015

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PLANNING FOR 2016
GENERAL

1. Start from 2016 two division will be joined under 1 manager, Cikolek and Kangboy will become
Toapaya Division.
2. Pak Dedi Supriadi will take the Manager Area position with 2 assistant, Pak Iswanto and Ali
Amri.
3. BPA will take a new staff, Pak Ali Amri who will help Manager Area in Cikolek.
4. Pak Iswanto will assist in Kangboy.
5. The Workers number will be reduced to 23 workers from 26 workers.
6. Implementation of techniques in Kangboy to Cikolek.
• Workers can be allocated to the Area that need extra maintain.
• Terbas Line with new Power 8 Machines
• Round up line will be faster with additional personal
7. Nutrient Programs still combining organics and chemical balanced.
NPK Application 120 gr/trees 2 times a Year.
8. Mostly activities will be focused in Cikolek.

CSR

9. Pak Kaswar will become CSR Relationship Manager with job descriptions as below :

Rubber Farmers

• Provide data Number of Rubber Farmers and Rubber Suppliers

• Provide Data of Rubber Plantation dispersion mapping in Bintan.
• Provide Technical consulting for existing Rubber Farmer on Maintaining rubber trees,
and increasing Quality of Latex/Lump (minimize the rubbish).
• Provide Technical education on Planting rubber trees, fertilizing, maintaining and
tapping.
• Encourage farmer to plant rubber especially clone over local rubber.
• Provide consulting of Nursery preparation, and pre-order of PB260 clone.

Supplier
• Educate and consulting suppliers to increase the quality of rubber products.

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FRONT SIDE- CSR BROCHURE

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BACK SIDE- CSR BROCHURE

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PROBLEMS

Licensing of BPA
Bintan Prima Agro still cannot get the license of location in Cikolek and Kangboy yet because of the
status of “Hutan Lindung” or Protected Forest. Management still do some approaching to Bintan
Agroforestry department to help us in this case.

Dispute Land
1. EKANG

Width : 28 Ha,

Location : Desa Kuala Sempang

Kecamatan Seri Kuala Lobam

Kabupaten Bintan

Claimer : Kelompok Tani Buana Bangun Lestari (Sutiman Cs)

This case has been reported to police, in investigation progress.

2. KANGBOY 1

Width : Average 30 Ha

Location : Kangboy, Desa Toapaya Utara

Kecamatan Toapaya

Kabupaten Bintan

Claimer : Stannis CS/Andi Berlian (Haji Jabir)

3. KANGBOY 2

Width : Average 6 Ha

Location : Kangboy, Desa Toapaya Utara

Kecamatan Toapaya

Kabupaten Bintan

Claimer : Karim Cs

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