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.

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.crossknowledge.com/.

In addition to providing food for the community, PT Freeport Indonesia through the Amungme and Kamoro Community Empowerment Foundation (YPMAK) has also provided COVID-19 handling assistance to the Mimika Regency Government, Papua Province and the Central Government. PT Freeport Indonesia provided Rp 2 billion in assistance to the Mimika Regional Government as support to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Mimika. Not only that, YPMAK also provided equipment in the form of 39 disinfectants, 48 spray machines, 100 boxes masks and protective clothing and shoes.

Previously, PT Freeport Indonesia had also been socializing prevention of transmission and spread of COVID-19. The socialization to the Kamoro community carried out since the end of March 2020 was focused on five villages in the Kamora, Ajkwa, Mawati and Minajerwi (DASKAMM) watersheds at the RT / TW unit level. On this occasion, PTFI also distributed sterilizing fluids, masks and soap for washing hands and bathing to the local community

Responding to the development of the global pandemic COVID-19, PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI) has also moved quickly from the beginning by taking steps to protect the workforce and the community from potential sources of transmission of the virus, by limiting all trips to Timika, and areas the PTFI project, and limit the movement of personnel from the lowlands to the Highlands.

Since the beginning of March 2020, PT Vale Indonesia have taken several precautions, including:

• Suspend all international and domestic trips for business except those that are critical.
• Stops flights to and from Sorowako except for emergencies
• Activities that involve many people at the same time and place are also suspended.
• Implement work from home mechanisms for certain types of work and for employees with a history of health problems.
• For employees who are still needed on the job site, the Company provides special support to maintain health,
• Perform periodic spraying of disinfectants in operational vehicles and work areas.
• At Sorowako Airport and the entrances to the operation area, a body temperature check is done with a thermo camera, also placing a sterilization booth
• Closing public facilities under PT Vale’s management and applying a home study method for YPS students.
• Preparing the hospital and the isolation room in case there is a positive case of COVID-19
• Campaigning together with religious leaders for social distancing
• Collaborate with local governments and help procure ambulances, PPE, disinfectants, ventilators, thermo guns to several areas

At present the district government has also begun to aim to close or restrict access in and out of the district. PT Vale continues to collaborate with various parties to jointly prevent the spread of COVID-19. You may check more than dozen of PT Vales Indonesia’s initiatives and collaboration in coping the situation caused by COVID-19 on their youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcyDt1h-5ltAge6ynTnPn4g

APRIL Group responded to the Indonesian government’s request for vital equipment to fight COVID-19 by donating 1 Million medical masks, 1 Millionsurgical gloves, 100,000 PPE gowns, & 3,000 safety goggles.
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