Eagle High Plantations, formerly known as BW Plantation, is an Indonesian company active in

oil palm ''Elaeis'' () is a genus of palms, called oil palms, containing two species, native to Africa and the Americas. They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil. Description Mature palms are single-stemmed, and can gro ...

plantations and

palm oil Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 36% of global oils produced from o ...

manufacturing. It is listed since 2009 on the

Indonesia Stock Exchange Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) ( (BEI)) is a stock exchange based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was previously known as the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) before its name changed in 2007 after merging with the Surabaya Stock Exchange (SSX). In rece ...

as BWPT.

History

The company was established in 2000 under the name ''PT Bumi Perdana Prima Internasional''. In 2007 it changed its name to BW Plantation. It had its initial public offering in 2009. Despite risen sales, its profits plunged in 2013. In 2014 the company acquired Green Eagle Group and changed its name to Eagle High Plantations.

Organization

BW Plantation had 89,000 hectares of plantations in

Central Kalimantan Central Kalimantan () is a provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is one of five provinces in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. It is the largest province in Indonesia by area since 2022, bordered by West Kalimantan to the west ...

East Kalimantan East Kalimantan (Indonesian language, Indonesian: ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. Its territory comprises the eastern portion of Borneo/Kalimantan. It had a population of about 3.03 million at the 2010 census (within the cu ...

and

West Kalimantan West Kalimantan () is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital and largest city is Pontianak. It is bordered by East Kalimantan and Central ...

. Abdul Halim Ashari was its President Director. It has four palm oil mills in Central Kalimantan. It is based in

Jakarta Jakarta (; , Betawi language, Betawi: ''Jakartè''), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (; ''DKI Jakarta'') and formerly known as Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and ...

. Its subsidiaries include PT Bumilanggeng Perdanatrada, PT Adhyaksa Dharmasatya, PT Sawit Sukses Sejahtera, PT Wana Catur Jaya Utama, PT Satria Manunggal Sejahtera and PT Agrolestari Kencana Makmur.

Controversy

A subsidiary of BW Plantation has cleared forest habitat of the

orangutan Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genus ...

External link

Company website

References

{{Palm oil Palm oil companies of Indonesia