The Determining Factors Of Permanent Harvesters' Turnover At Pt Bumitama Gunajaya Abadi Oil Palm Plantation In Central Kalimantan

Abstract

The oil palm plantation industry is often called “green gold” which produces the CPO as a leading export commodity but it's also fraught with challenges, both from external factors and internal factors, such as the high turnover of palm fruit harvesters. Even though this commonly occurs and has a direct impact on the achievement of production and also on the company income, there is not much research regarding it. Therefore, this research would focus on the harvesters' turnover, through qualitative descriptive methods, the collecting data used the pre-surveys, analyzing primary, secondary data and in-depth interviews with the informants and data validity methods were analyzed by triangulation. The results stated if there were five factors which determined the harvesters' turnover, such as dissatisfaction with public facilities, social institutions and welfare in terms of income and easy access to basic daily needs and their relations with superiors.