Bakrie Sumatera Plantations

Bakrie Sumatera Plantations
Monument at Bakrie Sumatera Plantations, July 2008
Locale Bunut (Kecamatan Kota Kisaran Barat)
Track gauge 700 mm (2 ft 3 9⁄16 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Headquarters Plantation/Head Office, Jl. Ir. H. Juanda, Kisaran 21202
Website www.bakriesumatera.com
United States Rubber Plantations (Bakrie Sumatera Plantations), 1925
Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Railway, July 2008

PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Tbk (BSP) - also referred to as Bakrie Sumatra Plantations Tbk - is the name of an agricultural subsidiary of the Bakrie Group with its headquarter in Jakarta, Indonesia.

This article is about the rubber and palm oil factory and its railway of BSP near Kisaran. The factory is located 3 km north of Kisaran and south-west next to the little village Bunut, located in the district (Kecamatan) Kota Kisaran Barat in Asahan Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Asahan) in a middle regency of North Sumatra. Kisaran is the seat of Asahan.

History

One of Indonesia’s oldest plantations companies startet in 1911 as N.V. Hollandsch Amerikaanse Plantage Maatschappij, opening its first rubber plantation in Kisaran. [1]

About the ends of the 1910s the factory belongs to United States Rubber Plantation Inc, Sumatra, a subsidiary of United States Rubber Company (USRC), United States of America. The firm changed its name to Uniroyal Sumatra Plantations Inc, Kisaran in 1967, keeping a subsidiary of Uniroyal Inc., United States of America. In 1985 the company listed the Indonesian rubber plantations amongst others under its non-strategic assets being offered for sale, one year after the giving up its Malaysian rubber plantations (Uniroyal Malaysian Plantations Sdn).[2] In 1986 Bakrie Group acquired this location, at first named as "PT United Sumatera Plantations". In 1990 the Company's name became "PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations" (BSP or UNSP - its trading code at the Jakarta Stock Exchange). [3] In 1992 the company began to convert parts of its rubber plantations at Kisaran to palm oil plantations. In 1990 BSP also opened another oil palm plantation P.T. Bakrie Pasaman Plantation at Pasaman, West Sumatra and acquired Bah Jambi palm oil plantation from P.T. Agrowiana in 1991.

Infrastructure

By 1919, USRC Sumatran plantations were the largest rubber plantations in the world. In the 1920s the development of production of natural rubber was affected by unstable demand for rubber, rises in production costs, increasing use of synthetics rubber, overproduction and the following worldwide economic depression. Today Bakrie Sumatera Plantations has under its management around 100,000 ha of rubber and oil palm plantations.[4] BSP has also extensive landbanks.[5] The decision to invest in the palm oil industry is based on the fact that palm oil is known to be much more productive than other types of plantation commodities and has a higher adaptability to changes in climate.[6]

The factory at Kisaran still used its narrow gauge light railway to carry the natural rubber from the plantation to the factory at the end of 2016 and it is obvious the last one in the region which did this.[7][8] [9] Usually there were two trains leaving the factory noonday and coming back together from the rubber plantation between 4 and 5 p.m. A third loco was helping weighting and shunting the waggons. The connection to the state railway PTKA was still in use, too.

The parts of the plantations transformed to palm oil were served only by trucks from their formation on.

Rolling stock

Early known deliveries to this place of location are 0-6-0T Vulcan Iron Works (VIW) ( 2661 / 1917 ), two 0-6-0T Davenport (1816 / 1920 and 1817 / 1920 ) delivered to United States Rubber Plantation Inc, Sumatra in 610 mm gauge, as well as two 0-6-0T Orenstein & Koppel ( 11894 / 1929 and 11765 / 1928 ) also in 610 mm gauge and the survivor 0-6-0T Orenstein & Koppel (7067 / 1920 / 40 HP). The last one was delivered in 600 mm gauge to Cultuur Mij, Indragini Uniroyal Kisaran.[10]

Current locomotives as in July 2008
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 9 0-4-0DM Ruston 48DL ( 425331 / 1954 ) in use
D 10 0-4-0DM Ruston 48DL ( 441569 / 1954 ) dumped
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

Dieselization started with about 10 engines from Ruston Hornsby in the early 1950s. These engines were scrapped around 2006. A second less batch of deliveries was supplied from the German Schöma and Diema. One of these was made in 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) (Cape gauge) to service the link to the state railway line of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) from Tebing Tinggi to Kisaran.[11] This Cape gauge feeder line leaves the factory site due to north-west. The 2 ft track to the plantation goes from the south-east corner of the works turning south and crossing over the state railway line about one kilometre south of the factory.

Ruston D 9

Schöma D 11 A

Schöma D 15

See also

References

  1. ↑ PT. Bakrie Sumatera Plantations tbk - Background
  2. ↑ Shakila Yacob : The Impact of the New Economic Policy on US Foreign Direct Investment in Malaysia, IEHC 2006 XIV International Economic History Congress
  3. ↑ The Business Watch Indoesia : BIOFUEL INDSTRY IN INDOESIA
  4. ↑ "PT Bakrie Sumatera Plantations TBK | Member | RSPO - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil". rspo.org. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  5. ↑ Helena Varkkey, The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), p. 77
  6. ↑ Indonesia News - EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA IN ANKARA, TURKEY, Volume IV October 2007
  7. ↑ Syahri Wahyu Hidayat, Lori Perkebunan Karet (Muntik) PT.BSP Kisaran, Sumatera Utara
  8. ↑ Syahri Wahyu Hidayat, Lori angkutan perkebunan karet/lateks di Desa Sidodadi, Sumatera Utara
  9. ↑ Syahri Wahyu Hidayat, Lori Schöma - SCHOEMA No.15 PT. BSP (Bakrie Sumatera Plantation) Kisaran, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
  10. ↑ Lieferlisten, CD, by Jens Merte, Netphen, Germany
  11. ↑ Kunio Furukawa "Ohne Dampf durch Indonesien (II)" in Bahn-Express - Magazin für Werkbahnfreunde Nr. 75, 2/1997 p. 194

Coordinates: 3°0′10.02″N 99°36′6.53″E / 3.0027833°N 99.6018139°E / 3.0027833; 99.6018139 (Bakrie Sumatera Plantations)

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