Indofood

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

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities and states the frequencies and channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement covers nature, nutrition, and social issues.

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.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses it is committed to the use of organic fertilisers in order to minimize the use of chemicals and it reports data on the use of organic and inorganic fertilisers.

Water withdrawal
The company reports how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company discloses it has adopted the Healthier Choice (Pilihan Lebih Sehat) logo.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented workforce nutrition programmes that include nutrition education via comics and webinars, breastfeeding support (e.g., breastfeeding rooms and education), and healthy food offerings. These options adhere to government nutrition guidelines and are complemented by an app that calculates calories and macronutrients from available menus.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses that it directly works with local farmers, guaranteeing them a specific price for their produce and providing both support and guidance to partnered farmers in order to ensure that their agricultural practices adhere to the required standards. Additionally, the company discloses that it facilitates farmers’ access to high-quality seeds and provides seed loans. These loans are subsequently repaid during harvest according to pre-agreed quality agreements and prices. Furthermore, the company discloses its commitment to assisting potato farmers by aiding them in accessing capital and markets. It also outlines its collaboration with farmer cooperatives, offering them infrastructure support and sustainable feed management assistance. Additionally, the company describes its work with farm cooperatives in East Java to enhance farmers’ income by increasing their cow ownership levels.

Land rights
The company is committed to respecting land ownership, the use of natural resources, and related legitimate tenure rights. When the company acquires or leases land, or makes other arrangements, it discloses its processes for identifying legitimate tenure rights holders and negotiates with them to provide fair compensation.

Act ethically
The company has a grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses that 48% of its workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements. Furthermore, it reports the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by age group, gender, and educational level.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights.

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, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
While the company discloses its alignment with the UNGC, the company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Moreover, it could report (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses certain sustainability objectives/targets, including those related to climate. However, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. While the company reports on some of their targets, including those related to climate, it could report consistently across 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 activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilizers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the 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 can consider aligning its FLW reduction goal with SDG12.3, which aims for a 50% reduction by 2030.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company discloses its commitment to reducing plastic use and transitioning towards more sustainable packaging. However, it has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and the use of sustainable packaging.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company provides evidence of regenerative agriculture practices. However, it has an opportunity to disclose a target to improve soil health in its production and sourcing practices and report progress against it.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence of reductions in water withdrawal across its own operations. Additionally, it has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against the target. The company also has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company is committed to reducing sugar and salt content and increasing the nutritional value of its products by incorporating vitamins. In addition, the company aims to completely eliminate trans-fat from all remaining industrial products by the end of 2023. However, there is potential for improvement in reporting its overall efforts to reduce sugar, salt, and fat, and/or increase the presence of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole grains in its entire portfolio. Additionally, there is an opportunity for the company to adopt a nutrient profiling system and set a sales-based target to increase the proportion of more nutritious products, aligning with government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of products for which its front-of-pack labelling schemes have been rolled out.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to provide evidence of marketing activities to promote heathier and more nutritious food options (in accordance with a government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines). Moreover, it can disclose a responsible marketing policy specifically tailored to children that is aligned with international codes and guidelines and applicable across all media channels.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence on its healthy food offerings program and to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and an age-verification system for its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

Land rights
The company does not require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to disclose a publicly available policy document that prohibits bribery and corruption and to includes anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. Additionally, it can establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption.

Furthermore, the company can 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 states that it respects the health and safety of workers but could further formalise this commitment into a public policy document and extend the expectation to its business relationships. It could also provide evidence of monitoring suppliers’ compliance.

Additionally, it has an opportunity to set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage and describes the living wage determination methodology in regions where it operates. While it has set expectations on the wage paid by its suppliers, it has an opportunity to add a requirement for them to pay a living wage, and disclose how it supports the payment.

Furthermore, the company could formalise its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment into a public policy document and disclose related time-bound 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 in its direct operation.

Respect human rights
The company discloses statements committing it to respect the ILO’s fundamental rights at work and expecting its suppliers to do the same. However, it has an opportunity to incorporating them into a formal policy document.

Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts in specific activities or locations, covering its operations and supply chain, as well as the process for assessing and identifying 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.