Bumitama Agri

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the frequencies and channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. It engages with industry associations and certification bodies, local communities, and customers and buyers.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses a target to minimise the use of pesticides in its production and sourcing practices, and reports progress against it. It targets to achieve 85% of planted area to be rodenticide-free by 2023.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. It has implemented agricultural management techniques and is researching ways to improve soil fertility in order to prevent erosion and cultivation degradation.

Workforce nutrition
The company offers workplace breastfeeding support with 19 facilities at its group and Jakarta head office, with plans to expand to every clinic by 2023

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company sources all its fresh fruit bunches from areas near its mills in Indonesia, primarily from independent smallholders. To further demonstrate strong relationships with smallholders, it tailors programs based on assessments conducted to better understand the barriers they face. Furthermore, it has set a goal for every certified mill with third-party supply to include at least one group of smallholders in productivity improvement programs by 2024. Moreover, the company has established programs to assist smallholders in obtaining ISPO and RSPO certifications, the former will become mandatory for Indonesian smallholders by 2025.

Forced labour
The company prohibits the payment of any recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job. It also does not retain workers’ personal documents or restrict workers’ freedom of movement in its operations.

Land rights
The company has a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. It also requires its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders, paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company has a clear policy against bribery and corruption. Additionally, there is a grievance mechanism in place for stakeholders to voice their concerns or lodge complaints related to bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to worker health and safety and expects its business partners to adhere to the same standards. It also outlines its method for determining living wages in the regions where it operates. Additionally, it discloses the gender distribution across employee categories.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to respecting human rights, It indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, while the company states that the board of directors has expertise in soil health, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics including nutrition, climate, water, social inclusion, ecosystem conversion and biodiversity.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and report any potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including biodiversity, climate, social inclusion and ecosystem conversion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1, 2 and 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 activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains, covering all high-risk commodities.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to set a target to optimize the use of fertilisers in its production and sourcing practices and to report progress against the target.

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

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company currently discloses the total volume of water withdrawn for a portion of its operations, but it could further demonstrate a reduction in water withdrawal across all its operations. Additionally, while it discloses reduction targets related to water intensity, it should also disclose a target to reduce absolute water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against it. Furthermore, it would be beneficial for the company to report the amount of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. Lastly, it could take the opportunity to engage with suppliers in order to reduce water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and activities to address malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Workforce nutrition
The company has health and well-being promotion programs for its employees. However, there is room to enhance these programs by adding nutrition-focused health checks or education. Additionally, while the company offers free food at work, it could clarify whether these options are healthy.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
While the company does not allow suppliers to retain workers’ personal documents and restrict workers’ freedom of movement, it has an opportunity to disclose a prohibition to pay recruitment fees or related costs to secure a job in its supply chain. Further, it has an opportunity to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Act ethically
The company has a process for identifying bribery and corruption risks but could benefit from publicly disclosing the details of this process. It also has an opportunity to formalise anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships.

While the company states in its Code of Conduct that it does not make political contributions, it could formalise this commitment in a public policy document and establish a policy detailing its approach to lobbying and political engagement. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company states that it pays its employees a minimum wage, it has the opportunity to commit to a living wage by setting a time-bound target, and extend this requirement to its suppliers while disclosing how it supports such payment. It also has the opportunity to disclose how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

While the company has expressed commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, it can formalise these commitments in a public policy document and set time-bound targets. The company also has the opportunity to disclose the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to respect specific workers’ rights but could strengthen this by referencing all the ILO fundamental rights at work, both for its own operations and its suppliers.

The company has the opportunity to elaborate on the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts, not only in its own operations but also in its supply chain. Further, it could disclose its methodology for assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, and unveil a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate these issues.