

RAPP President Director, also IBCSD Chairman, Sihol Aritonang handed over this assistance directly to APHI Chairperson Indroyono Soesilo. The donation of medical equipment and necessities from these members is a form of the company’s responsibility and care to support the Covid-19 handling program carried out by the Indonesian government specifically through KLHK.
In total, the Royal Golden Eagle through the Tanoto Foundation brought in 100 thousand protective clothing, 1 million masks, 1 million gloves and 3 thousand protective glasses to provide more adequate protection to medical officers in Indonesia. This assistance has begun to be distributed through BNPB (read more here), and also to Covid-19 referral hospitals in Jakarta, Riau and North Sumatra.
Other member of IBCSD, the APP Sinarmas, also put on some donations. The donations are in the form of 40 thousand pcs masks, 1.000 liters of filma cooking oil, and packages of Lianhua Qingwen Herbal medicines from China. Furthermore, the collected aid will be handed over and coordinated with various related parties specifically with the KLHK Covid-19 Task Force.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formally agreed by heads of government in 2015 as a global policy agenda and framework for development until 2030. The SDGs consist of 17 goals and 169 targets which are expected to be a reference for global action plans for development 15 next year (2015-2030). IBCSD as a business association committed to supporting sustainable development has also encouraged private sector participation to support SCP through the Green Lifestyle Program since 2017. In 2020 this program has entered the second phase with the aim of strengthening collaboration by involving more business actors and stakeholders related to creating market demand that supports the achievement of SCP in Indonesia.
The webinar was attended by Head of Environment and Forestry Standardization Center from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry: Ir. Noer Adi Wardojo, M.Sc. as the main speaker. As stated by Noer Adi in the webinar, IBCSD will take the responsibility to become an official partner of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry regarding the SCP standards for businesses. It is in line with the objective of the webinar, which are: To get input from private sectors on the the framework of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Indonesia until the year 2030, and to enhance private sector network and collaboration in implementation of the Green Lifestyle project to support SCP (SDG 12) in Indonesia
Speakers from various stakeholders shared their insights to increase people awareness and build collaborative actions to steward the biodiversity in Indonesia. Director General for Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Mr. Wiratno, M.Si shared 10 ways to manage forest conservation that among others include seeing community as subject, respect for human rights and local wisdom, cross-sectors collaboration, science based-decision making and multi-layers leadership. From business perspective, Dharsono Harsono, CEO PT RMU, emphasised that to protect forest, businesses need to learn from local community and work seriously for their welfare. “To make the community prosperous is the key for stewarding the forest”, said Dharsono.
The important role of community in conserving the biodiversity was also jointly agreed by the speakers from both indigenous and religious Communities. Director for Indonesia Conservation Community Warsi, Rudi Syaf raised the importance of going back to local wisdom in restoring the biodiversity. “In the past forest was well managed, because the indigenous community saw it as the source of life”, said Rudi. From Islam perspective, Dr. Hayu Prabowo, Head of Environment and Natural Resources Conservation, Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI) shared that MUI has mobilised the communities and organizations to protect the environment through religious approaches, such to integrate textual doctrine and contextual studies on environment, to inspire and empower local leaders and organizations as well as to mobilise investment and assets supporting the environmental protection. Pastor Jimmy Sormin, Executive Secretary for Testimony and Creature Safety, Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI) also shared that particularly for the last decade, the churches have been very active to promote awareness, behaviour change and concrete actions for the environment sustainability.
1. Care for BNPB
GGF provides healthy nutrition support for the BNPB task force team. GGF collaborates with its brand to provide Sunpride fruits, Hometown Dairy milk and Duta canned pineapple weekly. In hope that by consuming nutritious food, the task force team is able maintain body immunity to perform their best in the frontline
2. Employee Cares
In dealing with COVID-19, GGF employees took the initiative to raise their funds to be distributed in the form of food packages for people who are socio-economically affected by COVID-19. A total of 7.817 lunch box packages and 300 kg rice at the value of IDR 120,355,000 have been distributed to affected communities in Makassar, Padang, and Jabodetabek areas.
3. Milk for Heroes
As a form of support at the frontline of COVID-19 efforts for the medical personnel. Hometown Dairy brand distributes milk to more than 20,000 doctors, nurses, and medics at 42 hospitals in Greater Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, and Bandung.
4. Care for Greater Jakarta Community
Sunpride as a fresh fruit brand of GGF in collaboration with Redkendi and Sierad Produce distributed 25,000 health ready to eat packages for the people of Greater Jakarta affected by COVID-19.
5. Care for Lampung Government and Medical Personnel
PT. Great Giant Pineapple as a subsidiary of GGF in Lampung has distributed 131,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth IDR 2.7 billion to the Lampung Province Government in order to support the medical officers who are tasked with handling COVID-19.
Since March 2020, the Lampung GGF production site also has supported in donating extra food packages to medical personnel. A total of 393 boxes of Sunpride fruit and 587 liters of Hometown milk have been sent to hospitals for COVID-19 patients of Bandar Lampung, Metro, Kotabumi, Central Lampung, and public health centers throughout Central Lampung.
Previous to the distribution of 131,000 PPEs to the Lampung Province, the Lampung GGF production site has shown commitment to support the government of Central Lampung by distributing 32,900 PPE for government task force and medical officers.
6. Care for Lampung Community
As a form of responsibility to communities affected by COVID-19, the company distributed 2,150 food packages worth IDR 240,000,000 to several areas in Central Lampung, East Lampung, and Gunung Katun.
In addition, the company also has distributed 200 liters of disinfectant, 150 liters of hand sanitizer, 2,500 COVID-19 preventive message in the form of stickers, posters, and banners, and 120 handwashing installations for the people of Central Lampung.
7. GGF Volunteers
As a forum for employee volunteer activities, GGF Volunteers through its fundraising efforts have collected IDR 28,411,900. The donation will be allocated and distributed in form of 200 groceries package consist of rice, noodles, vitamins, coconut oil, to communities around Central Lampung.
Great Giant Foods is the corporate arm of Gunung Sewu Group for food and agricultural products. PT Great Giant Pineapple, PT Great Giant Livestock, PT Umas Jaya Agrotama, PT Bromelain Enzyme, PT Inbio Tani Nusantara, PT Sewu Segar Nusantara, PT Sewu Segar Primatama, PT Nusantara Segar Abadi dan PT Setia Karya Transport are parts of Great Giant Foods business units. Great Giant Foods products are sold under the following brands; Sunpride for fresh fruit produce, Bonanza for protein products, Re.juve for cold-pressed juice, Hometown Dairy for dairy products and Cap Kodok for tapioca starch.
Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD) in collaboration with WWF and Accenture developed Sustainable Sourcing Guideline to promote sustainable sourcing practices in particular among downstream industries. This guideline is a living document that can be used as initial tool for companies to navigate their sustainable sourcing journey towards sustainable business.
Sustainable sourcing is the integration of sustainability principle into the decision making process for selecting suppliers. Sustainable sourcing ensures that the products and services are from sustainable raw materials and sustainable process.
Sustainable sourcing matters to tackle both internal and external risks. Internal risks, such as the scarcity of raw materials can impact on whether or not the companies able to continue their production and meet the consumer demand. Then, external risks include stakeholders’ trust and overall reputation of the companies.
Panduan Pengadaan Berkelanjutan | ID
Sustainable Sourcing Guidelines | EN
2. Donation of hygiene and personal care products
A total of 673,000 units of personal care products including face wash, shampoo, and moisturizer will be distributed through the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM), non-profit organizations such as DoctorSHARE and PEKKA, as well as though the Jababeka Industrial Estate where L’Oréal factory is located.
3. Providing grants for COVID-19 research in Indonesia
Research grant will be allocated to Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology to support research on the whole genome sequencing of COVID-19 in Indonesia. This research is an initial step toward the development of COVID-19 vaccine that is suitable for Indonesian people through data and sample collection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
4. Supporting salon business partners
As solidarity to our business partners, the company provides safety and hygiene training, support them to implement social commerce by selling retail product and distributes alcohol-based hand sanitizer. These efforts are aimed to help small and medium salon partners to revive their business post pandemic period.
5. Module and online class #safetogther
In order to ensure that all Group employees are aware of these new measures before they return to their workplace, L’Oréal has developed a dedicated e-learning program, #safetogether, Created in house and in record time, this module will help all employees understand and adopt the new measures that will protect them and their colleagues on a daily basis. In order to enable as many people as possible to benefit from this e-learning, L’Oréal has made a version of this module available for the general public via https://together.na.