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Engaging and Transforming Communities
IndoAgri engages with local communities to enhance literacy rates,
sharpen skills and competitiveness, while improving the health and
well being of both young and old.
In the process of implementing community development initiatives,
our leaders have acquired new skills and knowledge that offer an
appreciation of societal needs, and an enhanced ability to collaborate
across proft and non-proft boundaries.
Our focused efforts over the past year include the following:
Education
In 2012, education was a chief priority in our efforts to uplift local
population. Notable programmes included the development of
learning and literacy centres; building and rehabilitating local
schools; and offering vocational internships. IndoAgri also regularly
contributes learning aids and teaching tools such as textbooks,
furniture, science labs and computers; children of employees also
receive free education.
Across several plantation locations, we launched Rumah Pintar
or “Smart House”. Smart House consists of fve learning centres,
respectively dedicated to Books, Computers, Audio-Visual resources,
Play and Crafts. The objective of Smart House is to spur creativity
while enhancing literacy for both children and adults. The programme
was jointly developed with the Solidarity of United Indonesia Cabinet
Wives. To date, IndoAgri has launched fve Smart Houses out of
20 planned. Smart Houses are currently in operation in Riau (two
units), North Sumatra (one unit), West Kalimantan (one unit), and
South Sulawesi (one unit).
In East Kalimantan, we drove a programme designed to improve
literacy rates and provide facilities for reading. The Reading Centre
BUNGA (Books for the Nations) programme provides books that
support academic curricula for children, while creating spaces for
them to browse and read.
Recognising the fundamental need for effective schooling, we built
a total of 13 grade schools, four junior high schools and three high
schools in Riau, providing free education for our employees’ children.
Taking our efforts further, we provided support to a government-
managed junior high school in West Kalimantan, and encouraged
local educators with teaching awards across seven schools in West
and East Kalimantan.
Finally, we took education into the feld by offering vocational
internships in our Riau estates, where learners were exposed to
automotive and other technical expertise that would prove useful
for eventual employment after graduation.
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