Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Explained

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations
Type:Subsidiary
Industry:Agriculture
Transportation
Foundation:
Kisaran, Indonesia
Location:Kisaran, Asahan, North Sumatra and Jakarta, Indonesia
Products:Rubber
Palm oil
Parent:Bakrie Group

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations is an agricultural subsidiary of Bakrie Group headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. Bakrie Sumatera Plantations manages an estimated one hundred thousand hectares of rubber and palm oil plantations,[1] a railroad for transporting rubber, and several land banks.[2]

History

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations was founded in 1911 as N.V. Hollandsch Amerikaanse Plantage Maatschappij, opening its first rubber plantation in Kisaran.[3] In the late 1910s, the company was acquired by United States Rubber Plantation Inc., Sumatra, a subsidiary of United States Rubber Company (USRC). In 1986 Bakrie Group acquired the company from USRC, renaming it to "PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations" in 1990.[4]

In 1990, Bakrie Sumatera Plantations opened a palm oil plantation in Pasaman, and acquired another one in Bah Jambi from P.T. Agrowiana the next year. In 1992 Bakrie Sumatera Plantations began converting several of its rubber plantations into palm oil plantations due to palm oil's higher profitability and greater endurance of climate change.[5] While the company's palm oil plantations do not make use of its railroad system, as of 2016, Bakrie Sumatera Plantations still used its railroad to transport rubber.

Rolling stock

The first locomotives delivered to the company were s, one from Vulcan Iron Works, two from Davenport and three from Orenstein and Koppel. In the early 1950s, the company acquired ten Ruston Hornsby locomotives, its first powered by diesel engines. Most of the Rustons were scrapped around 2006. Currently, the railway operates engines built by Ruston Hornsby, Schöma, and Diema.

Locomotives

Current

NameWheel
arrangement
GaugeBuilder & Type
(Builder number/Year built)
NotesPhotograph
D 9 Ruston 48DL (425331/1954)in use
D 11 A Schöma CFL45B (4872/1986)in use
D 12 Diema DFL60-1.2 (4140/1978)in use
D 14 Schöma CFL45B (4438/1980) inspection
D 15 Schöma CFL45B (4713/1983) in use
D 16 Schöma CFL60DCL (4950/ 1987)in use

Former

NameWheel
arrangement
GaugeBuilder & Type
(Builder number/Year built)
NotesPhotograph
17 Orenstein & Koppel 40 HP (7067/1919) monument
D 7 Ruston 48DL (349498/1954)dumped
D 10 Ruston 48DL (441569/1954)dumped

See also

Links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations TBK | Member | RSPO - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. rspo.org. 2016-05-30.
  2. Helena Varkkey, The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), p. 77
  3. Web site: PT. Bakrie Sumatera Plantations tbk - Background . 2017-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202064655/http://www.bakriesumatera.com/index.php/en/home-en-gb/background . 2017-02-02 . dead .
  4. http://www.fair-biz.org/admin-bwi/file/publikasi/20070828100425.pdf The Business Watch Indonesia: BIOFUEL INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202065332/http://www.kemlu.go.id/ankara/Majalah/%5BPublikasi%5D%20indonesia%2Dnews_october2007.pdf#91;Publikasi]%20indonesia-news_october2007.pdf Indonesia News - EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA IN ANKARA, TURKEY, Volume IV October 2007