PT TUNAS BARU LAMPUNG TBK Full Committed to RSPO
On January 16, 2007 Board of Directors has conducted a workshop of “Socialization and Implementation of RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) in PT TBL Tbk”, which is part of Sungai Budi Group, at Four Season Hotel, Jakarta.
By conducting of this workshop, It showed that the Board of Directors (BOD) and Board of Commissioners (BOC) of the company has a full commitment to implement RSPO in the company. The full commitment of the BOD and BOC then also brought to all plantation managers in Lampung, on its one day workshop in January 17, 2007 which was held in Nusantara Hotel, Bandar Lampung. It attended by approximately 200 people which was consist of managers / plantation assistants and also mills managers in the company.
In this seminar the Company has invited a keynote speakers from Malaysian Environmental Consultants (MEC) Sdn. Bhd, and also attended by Rabobank Indonesia Jakarta, PT Tunas baru Lampung Tbk is the only company in Indonesia that has given its full commitment to do all RSPO principles and criteria which has 8 principles with 39 criteria involving social issue, environmental, health and safety.
As on his opening speech, the President Director of the company said “related to the world development and the growing of company’s export sales to Europe, the company needs to open itself to become ready in the tight competitive market todays. In this competition, there are several requirement of standards that need to be fulfilled by the demands of the global market. These standards will always be pushed to be socialized and implemented in the Company without putting aside the social issue, environmental also health and health and safety which will become the most concern of the Company.” It shows that the company has given its full commitment to RSPO, in order to assist the sustainable lively hood.