Among the award recipients are chatbot provider Kata.ai, food franchisor Orchi Fried Chicken, wedding and holiday planner Weddingku group, peer-to-peer financing platform Investree, digital wallet provider Payfazz, and lifestyle retailer Metroxgroup.

Indonesia is the third country in ASEAN to launch the SME 100 Awards, after Malaysia and Singapore. Vietnam will be the fourth country with the survey currently being deployed across the country.

SMEs participating in the survey are both optimistic and cautious over the rapid pace of technological development and greater regional economic integration. Many SMEs continue to feel the heat from both technology-based disruptors in their industry and from regional competitors who are adopting technology to outpace them in the market. Almost every SME surveyed realizes the importance of a digital strategy, but many do not have the resources or the capability to implement one. The Indonesian government has invested substantial time and money into helping SMEs in this aspect, but the adoption rate is far slower than ideal.

The achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires synergy and collaborative actions among different development actors, both state and non-state actors. Private companies, large and small can bring unique strengths in achieving SDGs because they have capacity, resources, cutting-edge technologies, and a wide reach that are essential for the SDGs success.

The IBCSD collects best practices from the IBCSD member companies to share their contribution in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Indonesia. In summary, more than 40 stories from IBCSD members are now being compiled and soon will be published.    

As their tagline “We create chemistry”, they tend to create chemistry for a sustainable future
They want to contribute to a world that provides a viable future with enhanced quality of life for everyone. They do so by creating chemistry for our customers and society and by making the best use of available resources. BASF has live their corporate purpose “We create chemistry for a sustainable future” by sourcing and producing responsibly, acting as a fair and reliable partner, connecting creative minds to find the best solutions for market needs.

With the “We create chemistry” strategy, BASF has set itself ambitious goals in order to strengthen its position as the world’s leading chemical company.

They updated our sustainability goals to this effect in 2015 and aligned them along the entire value chain. They responsible procurement.

They design their production to be efficient and safe for people and the environment. They treat both our employees and our partners with respect and fairness. And they also drive sustainable products and solutions.

In addition, social conflicts also carry intangible or ‘hidden’ costs that range from USD 600,000 -to USD 9,000,000. These costs are indirect losses caused by the risk of escalation of conflict, reputation risk, and the risk of violence against property and people. These findings reinforce the notion that social conflicts – including land-based conflicts have produced tremendous impacts for companies as users or land developers.

Regarding this, CRU – IBCSD with other stakeholders worked together in the initiation of publishing this handbook of a practical conflict resolution. This handbook provides some basic concepts for dealing with land and social based conflicts arising from business activities. This book contains several important stages of conflict resolution, starting from the complaints mechanism, resolution, and implementation of the resolution to the way to end it.

The event itself was held on the 29^th of November.  UK Ambassador Moazzam Malik, alongside with Minister of ATR / BPN, Sofyan A. Djalil, which also present as the keynote speaker, were there to witness the launch. Number of representatives from business people also attended the event, including PT Rimba Makmur Utama, PT RAPP, Sintesa Group and Siam Cement Group Indonesia whom received the Handbook as representatives of the private sectors, from IBCSD President Shinta Kamdani. Hopefully with the better procedures for resolving conflicts, it will assist in reduce the number of land-based conflicts to encourage the growth of a sustainable business climate.

Video Peluncuran Buku PANDUAN PRAKTIS PENANGANAN KONFLIK BERBASIS LAHAN

The Guide offers a standardized framework to support businesses along the forest products value chain in identifying, measuring, and valuing their impacts and dependencies on natural capital. A clearer understanding of this complex relationship with nature will inform better decision-making, strategy and communication.

To ensure broad endorsement and uptake by the sector, the content of the Guide was developed through an extensive engagement process with key stakeholders from across all continents. Eight leading businesses have also applied the Guide to concrete cases of natural capital assessments, provided feedback on the content and shared their experience through case studies.

The Guide is designed to inspire other businesses along the forest products value chain to experiment with natural capital assessments, re-think their relationship with nature and trigger action and meaningful conversations from the forests to the boardrooms.

For more information, please contact: Nicolas Jammes, WBCSD Communication Manager: [email protected]

Forest Products Sector Guide

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The main point of the workshop is to help the SMEs to learn on how to develop a more responsible business, their own way. To do that, SMEs should determine and communicate the values adopted. Other thing they should do is to involve employees to start ‘seeing’ resource efficiency and get better on it. Then, trying to reduce carbon footprint is ahead of them. After that, measure the results and impacts to get evidence of environmental and social performance is also important so it can be used to differentiate a product and attract more customers. Last but not least, SMEs could start small with the concept of ‘Re-use’ in every compatible aspect in their industry.

Of course enlighten the SMEs is not something easy. They first should have the awareness to start evaluate their own business, regarding sustainability. Therefore, IBCSD together with GRI come up with a program called Corporate Sustainability Report for Competitive Business. This program designed for IBCSD’s member companies to help their SMEs supplier to understand and start doing sustainability report on an online platform, so it would be easier for the company too to compile their data and develop their own SR. For more info around the program, please contact us through email on [email protected].

– Ending natural forest conversion by its pulpwood suppliers, and transitioning to sourcing 100% plantation fiber for its production.

– Ensuring its supply chain continues to be free from deforestation, robust systems have been implemented and compliances are third party verified.

– 0.01% of area impacted by Forest Fire in 2017 out of the total gross area.

– 0.1% natural forest loss rate in APP’s suppliers protected areas by 3rd party deforestation (Mar 2017 – Jan 2018).

– 46% of social conflicts has been resolved APP has also engaged local communities, working collaboratively to improve livelihoods and to transfer knowledge to the villagers on modern, more sustainable, farming techniques. As a result of these programmes, the incidence of third-party deforestation, as well as forest and land fires have been significantly reduced in 2017.

In the five years since implementing the FCP, APP has invested about USD300 million in forest monitoring systems, landscape restoration, fire prevention and peat land research and community engagement, among others. The company also invested in identifying areas of High Conservation Value and High Carbon Stock, and detailed maps of peat lands, in and around its supplier concessions. This information has been vital in helping APP identify critical landscapes that need to be preserved and protected.

To review the full 2018 FCP Progress Report, please visit this link:
https://www.asiapulppaper.com/system/files/app_fcp_5th_anniversary_update_-_may_2018.pdf
and you can also find the presentation here:
https://www.asiapulppaper.com/system/files/180520_app_5fcp_presentation_deck.pdf

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This publication marks our fifth edition of Reporting matters. Our research has confirmed that many organizations find it challenging to meet the increasing number of disclosure requirements in a robust manner. At the same time, they are expected to engage with a greater variety of stakeholders in a meaningful way.

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Therefore, the theme of this report looks at striking the right balance between disclosure and engagement, to help our members make the most of their reporting process and the significant investment it requires. We explore technical disclosure issues including the new Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations, our forthcoming collaboration with COSO on risk management, the expanding universe of disclosure requirements and updates on the status of human rights and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reporting. And through our revamped Experience criteria, we also look at how companies can create compelling content for a variety of stakeholders. This is particularly relevant as technology continues to advance, opening up new opportunities to communicate sustainability related information.