Bakrie Sumatera Plantations

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations is an agricultural subsidiary of Bakrie Group headquartered in Lampung, 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]

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryAgriculture
Transportation
Founded1911 (1911)
Kisaran, Indonesia
HeadquartersLampung, Indonesia
ProductsRubber
Palm oil
ParentBakrie Group
WebsiteBakrieSumatera.com
United States Rubber Plantations (Bakrie Sumatera Plantations), 1925
Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Railway, July 2008

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 engines delivered to the company, all 0-6-0T engines, were one Vulcan Iron Works engine, two Davenport engines, and three Orenstein and Koppel engines. In the early 1950s, the company acquired ten Ruston Hornsby engines, its first diesel engines. These engines were scrapped around 2006. Currently, Bakrie Sumatera Plantations operates engines built by Ruston Hornsby, Schöma, and Diema.

Current
Name Wheel arrangement Builder & Type ( Builder number / Year built ) Notes Photograph
D 9 0-4-0DM Ruston 48DL ( 425331 / 1954 ) in use
D 11 A 0-4-0DM Schöma CFL45B ( 4872 / 1986 ) in use
D 12 0-4-0DH Diema DFL60-1.2 ( 4140 / 1978 ) in use
D 14 0-4-0DH Schöma CFL45B ( 4438 / 1980 ) inspection
D 15 0-4-0DH Schöma CFL45B ( 4713 / 1983 ) in use |
D 16 0-4-0DH
1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)		 Schöma CFL60DCL ( 4950/ 1987 ) in use

Former
Name Wheel arrangement Builder & Type ( Builder number / Year built ) Notes Photograph
17 0-6-0T →Orenstein & Koppel 40 HP ( 7067 / 1919 ) monument
D 7 0-4-0DM Ruston 48DL ( 349498 / 1954 ) dumped
D 10 0-4-0DM Ruston 48DL ( 441569 / 1954 ) dumped

See also

References
  1. "PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations TBK | Member | RSPO - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil". rspo.org. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  2. Helena Varkkey, The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), p. 77
  3. "PT. Bakrie Sumatera Plantations tbk - Background". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
  4. The Business Watch Indonesia: BIOFUEL INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA
  5. Indonesia News - EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA IN ANKARA, TURKEY, Volume IV October 2007

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