Alfamart

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its regular and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels and frequencies, for each stakeholder group.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company demonstrates commitment and has policies related to plastic use reduction and transitioning towards sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company identifies bribery and corruption risks by conducting regular compliance and investigation audits and provides suggestions and recommendations based on the results of the audits.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses the proportions of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by gender, age group, and disability.

Respect human rights
The company indicates that it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives that cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts. Furthermore, it could disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and report consistently on the progress against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1 and 2 and scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Ecosystem conversion
The company has an opportunity to disclose its efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation or restoration. The company could develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Food loss and waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose its food loss and waste (FLW) reduction targets and report progress against these targets. Additionally, the company could align its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, aiming for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for reducing water withdrawal in its own operations and to report progress on achieving this target. Additionally, the company could report the amount of water it withdraws in water-stressed areas for its own operations. Lastly, the company has an opportunity to engage with its suppliers to help reduce water withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents, or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to formalise its commitment on prohibiting bribery and corruption in a public policy document and to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. Additionally, it can establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints which is also accessible to all external stakeholders.

Furthermore, the company could demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasises its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to workers’ health and safety in its operations and supply chain by formalising its commitment into a public policy statement and providing evidence of monitoring supplier compliance.

Additionally, while it states that it pays minimum wage to its employees, it has an opportunity to commit to paying a living wage by setting a time-bound target, outlining the methodology for determining a living wage, and disclosing strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose that it has at least 30% women on the board of directors and report the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to human rights by formalising its commitment to respect fundamental human rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain into a public policy document.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across specific activities or locations, covering its operations and supply chain, and detail how it assesses and identifies its salient human rights issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.