Minister of Agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo appreciated the achievement of IBCSD’s member, Ewindo, exporting 48 billion horticultural seeds in 2019 and hopes that exports will continue to increase to support the Ministry of Agriculture’s Threefold Agricultural Export Movement (GRATIEKS) program. Seeds that have been successfully exported include: pumpkin, bitter melon, long beans, cucumbers, squash, water pumpkin, chili, watermelon, spinach, eggplant, beans, kale, melon, sweet corn, red onion, tomatoes, lettuce and cauliflower. Meanwhile, until the end of 2020 Ewindo targets horticultural seed exports to reach Rp98 billion to Asian countries such as India, Japan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and ASEAN countries such as Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar and Vietnam.

All these times, IBCSD and BAPPENAS have established good cooperation for a long time. In the future it is hoped that there will be more collaboration between IBCSD and BAPPENAS.

The Conflict Resolution Unit of the Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development in cooperation with the LEOPALD project of GIZ is currently developing a series of educational materials (a toolkit) for stakeholders in oil palm plantations. These materials are expected to support initiatives to develop equitable partnerships between farmers and corporations and/or resolving conflicts among them.

Key stakeholders have been identified as a segmented audience, namely plantation corporations, communities, local governments, NGOs working with those communities, and mediators who might mediate conflicts in the plantation sector. For each of these specific learning materials will be developed. It is expected that these learning materials will support the efforts to build sustainable and fair partnerships and conflict resolution processes.

To support this initiative, CRU is seeking an expert in learning materials development to bring his/her perspectives and insights to the efforts as a consultant.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

Ensure that the materials produced are educationally appropriate to each audience segment both in design and content.

Tasks

• Advice authors and or content specialists in developing the text/content for the learning materials

• Assist in the sequencing and presentation of the educational content in the appropriate format to facilitate optimal learning.

• Prepare appropriate format for the presentation or design for the materials.

• Prepare pre-testing methodology and instruments and carry out field testing of the materials in coordination with authors and or content specialist.

• Edit the final versions of the training materials to ensure optimal comprehension of the intended audience. These tasks will be caried out intermitendly for 35 working days during a period of three months.

Job Requirements

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in the development of learning materials for adult education (andragogy) and/or extension materials.

• Appropriate degree in education, communication, visual communication/graphic design or relevant fields.

• Field experience in communication with diverse stakeholders.

• Willing to travel if necessary and able to work cooperatively within a team

Professional experience

• At least 3 years of professional experience in similar projects or equivalent.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit a motivation letter, CV, and a portfolio (representative samples of educational materials worked on) to [email protected], and [email protected]

The closing date to submit the application letter is on December 30th, 2019.

Only short-listed candidates will be notified

3.     Duties and Responsibilities

The Lead is expected to build and strengthen TFA’s relationships with relevant private sector actors in the region, including producers, traders, manufacturers, and retailers (in particular, members of the Consumer Goods Forum), financial institutions, as well as industry groups and trade associations with the objective of driving engagement with the TFA platform and catalyzing collective action to tackle commodity-driven deforestation. Specifically, the position’s responsibilities include:

• Mobilizing a deeply-engaged coalition of private sector actors in the region
• Strategic engagement with IBCSD/KADIN to strengthen TFA as a platform
• Identifying and engage key private sector champions in the region who can build further support for our collective agenda
• Anticipating key strategic questions and trends affecting TFA in Southeast Asia, evaluating them and driving proactive decision-making to adapt organizational goals
• Generating customized strategies for individual companies or sectors when necessary
• Shaping opportunities for a forest-positive narrative together with key industry players
• Performing as subject matter expert at conceptualizing, delivering, monitoring and reporting on results
• In collaboration with the TFA Communications Lead and the Southeast Asia Communications Consultant, design and implement a communications campaign that showcases progress, highlights effective company actions, and strengthens the forest-positive narrative
• Contributing to TFA programming for events in the region
• Representing TFA at relevant external events and meetings
• Providing vision and leadership to the TFA team in Southeast Asia, ensuring effective interactions with the extended TFA team and consistent communications with partners in the region
• Overseeing and ensuring the success of the TFA platform’s jurisdictional dialogues
• Responsible for a sensible execution of the Southeast Asia budget

4.     Qualifications and Skills

• Master’s degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in a relevant organization
• Demonstrated ability to engage with private sector to mobilize targeted action
• Experience with building coalitions or partnerships and driving pre-competitive collaboration
• Ability to gain the trust of the TFA partners and other stakeholders in the region
• Experience with corporate strategy and leading project-based teams through strategy planning, analysis, design and implementation
• A holistic, deep understanding of the deforestation-free agenda, commodity production, and its links to the broader climate change agenda
• Established network among key individuals and organizations associated with action around the environment, tropical forests, commodities and public-private sector initiatives in Indonesia
• The ability to build a workplace culture that can embrace and execute change to meet organizational objectives
• High standards of professionalism and integrity, actively promoting ethics and compliance within the team
• Ability to communicate professionally and effectively with a wide variety of partners from different backgrounds
• Strong problem-solving skills and a can-do attitude
• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia

Interested applicants should send the cover letter and CV to [email protected]

The meeting was attended by delegations from ASEAN
State Member (AMS), Hans Seidel Foundation, ASEAN Secretariat, IBCSD, Kitakyushu
Researcher, UNU IAS and Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of
Indonesia as the hosting house.

The goals of this 11 th SCP Leadership Program was a sharing of experience and knowledge regarding SCP programme implementation both from AMS nor ASEAN+3 member. With the program, hopefully there is a lesson learned that can be replicated in the AMS who are not fully achieved the SCP goals and the SDG target.

In connection with this initiative, the transformation of the domestic market through building consumer awareness to choose palm products that are produced responsibly is chosen as one of the main strategies. The aim is to build incentives for palm oil producers to operate with regard to aspects of sustainability, and compliance with human rights values and norms.

Global demand for Indonesian palm oil is now beginning to decline and is followed by falling prices, following foreign market awareness about the need for compliance with human rights in the production chain with the principle of sustainability. This has an impact on the lives of farmers and oil palm workers in the village.

As a business association that applies the principle of sustainability, IBCSD sees that awareness of the risks of climate change at the consumer level has encouraged people to prefer sustainable products. This was later revealed by IBCSD executive director, Indah Budiani, “With increasing demand in consumers, the creation of sustainable products will ultimately be able to improve the competitiveness position of Indonesian palm oil in the global market.”

“Meanwhile on the producer side, support for this good initiative has also increased due to the many companies that are aware of business risks if they remain in ‘business as usual’ and do not progress to ‘responsible business'”, continued Indah, “this can be proven by implementing sustainable sourcing and various innovations carried out in an effort to meet the demands of the global market for sustainable products. “

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Various key stakeholders from province and district governments, companies, NGOs and academia actively participated in the discussion. “I appreciate the initiative and smart work of IBCSD by conducting this workshop to mobilize business opportunity to support SDG 2. This discussion is very important to solve barriers and seize opportunity to increase business investment in the local flagship commodities, such as shrimp and coffee”, said Choirul Anam, Head of Fisheries Department, Gresik District. Three resource persons are also invited to share their expert knowledge on the workshop topic. They are Satrio Nugroho from PT Central Proteina Prima, a company working on shrimp commodity; Sigit Ismaryanto from Board of Indonesia  Sustainable Coffee Cooperation (ISCC) and Andi Kurniawan from Centre for Coastal and Fishery Study, Brawijaya University.

A number of challenges are discussed in the plenary and group discussion, in particular relating to coffee and shrimp as parts of the local flagship commodities in East Java. On shrimp commodity, the market opportunity at both international and domestic levels are still very high. The challenges, among others are how to provide quality seeds, including different variety of shrimp seeds that can be productively cultivated in different local conditions. Other challenges are how to help small fish folk to get access to financial support, assist capacity building and innovative technology to improve shrimp product quality that can compete at international market and improve coordination and public private partnership in particular to achieve 250% increase of the national target fishery products in the coming years. On coffee commodity, the challenges include how to revitalize the already old coffee plantation; address the current trend that  the increase of coffee consumption is much higher rather than the increase in production;  and provide capacity building and innovation supports, in particular to the fast growing SMEs in coffee value chain industries.  

The result from the workshop will be presented in Jakarta in December, as a final discussion in completing the study.

In response to this critical issue, the Indonesian government has put serious measures to improve the Indonesian palm oil industry in line with sustainable development principles. Through the Ministry of Agriculture Regulation No. 19/ 2011 the Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) regulation was issued. This ISPO certification is made mandatory for palm companies that sell their products to international markets through the Minister Regulation No. 11/2015. The Government of Indonesia also has developed policy benefiting smallholder farmers that work in the palm oil sector through the launch of smallholder Replanting Program in 2017. Through this program, President Joko Widodo targeted 2.4 million ha of Replanting Program in 16 provinces. Currently the smallholder farmers share 45.64% of the total palm oil areas along with 49.17% of big private companies and 5.19 of big public companies (BPS, 2018).

The development of sustainable palm oil industry in Indonesia, however, is not only the responsibility of government. All key related stakeholders, including the private sector, civil societies, and consumer communities share equal responsibility to build responsible and sustainable palm oil industry that will bring benefits for decent living of the communities (people), economic sustainability (profit) and environmental sustainability (planet). This is where all of  us, as consumers can contribute by being responsible consumers. Choose products responsibly! 

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More consumers prefer sustainability in the products they buy shifting demand toward more environmentally friendly goods. In a study on consumer perception conducted by WWF in collaboration with Nielsen (2017), 63% of consumers prefer to buy sustainable products but it is not easy for them to find such products in the local markets. Another research conducted by Nielsen (2019) finds that 75 % millennials change their buying habits by considering environmental sustainability in mind.

As IBCSD Executive Committee stated at the end of the discussion, “Turns out it is still a big question whether we should start with a ‘sustainable demand’ first, or a ‘sustainable product’ for the businesses and market”. She continued, “however, we have now move towards the consumer education.”

When it comes to consumers, it is the millennials territory with their green lifestyle. Producers need to feed the content, educate companies and consumers. To achieve this all, commitment and perseverance is needed.