Musim Mas

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement frequencies and channels.

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.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company discloses reductions of its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Ecosystem conversion
The company’s conversion-free target covers all its high-risk commodities. It also discloses some activities and time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company discloses the proportion of high-risk commodities that are conversion-free.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. For example, the company is working on a regenerative agriculture project to implement intercropping and agroforestry in the palm oil sector.

Water withdrawal
The company actively works to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations. Additionally, it discloses that it does not operate in water stress areas, as verified by the WRI Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas.

Workforce nutrition
The company has implemented a program/policy for workplace breastfeeding support as well as fruits and vegetable garden for its employees. Furthermore, it has conducted nutrition training for its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company verifies the age of workers recruited in its own operations.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company buys fresh fruit bunches from smallholders at a higher rate than the market, even when market prices have dropped due to an excess supply of FFB. Additionally, it describes its program in remote areas of Indonesia that provides smallholders with financing options, enabling them to replace aging palm trees, plant higher-yielding seedlings, and effectively manage their oil palm crops while meeting certification standards. This enables them to become part of sustainable palm oil supply chains and broaden their sources of income. Lastly, it reports on the impacts of the programme on farmers’ income.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company provides evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups as women through its Indonesian Palm Oil Development for Smallholders programme.

Land rights
The company has a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. When acquiring, leasing land or making other arrangements, it also discloses its processes to identify legitimate tenure rights holders and negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company has carried out multiple decent living wage studies since 2019, all of which have shown that its workers are paid 140% more than the RSPO-mandated Decent Living Wage. It’s methodology is aligned with the RSPO methodology, which is based on the Anker methodology and GLWC definition of a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has a strict policy against bribery and corruption. It provides multiple avenues for individuals to report grievances: through a form on our website, by letter, or via SMS. The company emphasizes that all stakeholders, including employees, can confidentially file complaints using its whistleblowing mechanism without fear of retaliation or termination. Additionally, its website clearly states that anyone can use the channel to report concerns or complaints regarding bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company demonstrates its commitment to fair wages by revealing that its workers are paid 140% more than the RSPO-mandated decent living wage. It transparently describes its method for determining living wage standards across operational regions.

In terms of workforce well-being, the company not only has a publicly available policy statement emphasizing its dedication to the health and safety of workers but also extends this commitment to its business relationships. Additionally, the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce that is covered by collective bargaining agreements, promoting transparency in labor relations.

Furthermore, gender equality is a focus as the company discloses the percentage of women in its total direct operations workforce across various employee categories. This comprehensive approach underscores the company’s dedication to fair wages, worker safety, and gender diversity.

Respect human rights
The company has published a policy statement publicly committing to respect human rights. Alongside this, the company has also published a policy statement publicly committing to respect the ILO core labour rights as well as expecting suppliers to do the same.

Furthermore, the company has conducted assessments on the social compliance of its multiple subsidiaries, which identified various issues primarily related to labour rights. Through these assessments, the company also identified good practices, gaps, and areas in need of improvement. To address these concerns, the company has formulated responses and action plans that have been made available to the public.

Additionally, the company has established a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all external stakeholders who may be negatively affected by the company’s practices.

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
The company has an opportunity to report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on sustainability-related issues, and whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain and to report consistently against all targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company states its intention to reduce GHG emission intensity by 55% by 2025. However, there is no evidence to support that this target will result in absolute emission reductions. There is an opportunity for the company to establish emissions targets for scope 1, 2 and 3 aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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
While the company has set intensity-based goals to reduce its water withdrawal, there is an opportunity for the company to set absolute targets, as well as report progress against its target.

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.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to showcase its commitment to food safety by certifying 100% of its own operations to a GFSI food safety scheme or other widely recognized industry-specific certification program. Additionally, the company can also disclose the percentage of its food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Workforce nutrition
The company has an opportunity to include nutrition-focused health check and nutrition education to its workforce nutrition initiatives. Moreover, it could disclose quantitative evidence on healthy food offerings in its own operations and/or in its supply chain.

Child labour
The company acknowledges that it involves parents in the remediation process and recovery actions when child labour is discovered at work sites. However, there is potential to provide more detailed examples of their remediation programs. In addition to requiring suppliers to prohibit child labour, there is the opportunity to mandate the implementation of an age-verification system. While the company states that it supports children’s education and has successfully built and funded schools for this purpose, it could elaborate on how it helps suppliers develop the capability to prevent and address child labour.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could demonstrate how it improves farmers’ income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships.

Forced labour
The company does not keep the identification and travel documents of foreign workers, and it guarantees that foreign workers are not charged any fees outside of Indonesian estates. However, there is room for improvement by translating these statements into policy requirements that apply to all workers and locations in its operations. It could also prohibit suppliers from paying recruitment fees or any related costs to secure employment, retaining workers’ personal documents, or restricting workers’ freedom of movement. Furthermore, the company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is helping suppliers enhance their capacity to prevent any forced labour issues.

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.

Land rights
The company could require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers.

Act ethically
To ensure ethical conduct, the company could outline its procedure for identifying bribery and corruption risks within its specific operations and locations. Furthermore, it has the chance to enhance its commitment by integrating anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses into its contracts with business partners. This proactive approach can be extended by establishing a clear policy that governs the company’s approach to lobbying and political engagement.

Moreover, the company can underscore its dedication to ethical business practices by issuing a public policy statement that explicitly states its non-participation in political contributions. This commitment to transparency can be further strengthened by disclosing its expenditures related to lobbying activities. Lastly, by requiring third-party lobbyists to align with its established lobbying and political engagement policy, the company can effectively promote responsible and ethical behavior across its operations.

Provide and promote decent work
The company can enhance transparency by disclosing its approach to monitoring the health and safety performance of its suppliers. Moreover, while the company expects suppliers to pay a living wage, it should provide insights into its efforts to facilitate and support this payment.

Turning to gender equality, the company can elevate its commitment by translating its existing statement into a comprehensive public policy document. This commitment can be further solidified by disclosing time-bound targets for achieving gender equality and advancing women’s empowerment.

Lastly, in pursuit of equitable pay practices, the company has an opportunity to disclose the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men across its workforce, categorized by employee type and significant operational locations.

Respect human rights
The company outlines its method of evaluating human rights risks and shares some findings from this assessment. However, there is room for improvement in terms of providing clearer disclosure on the results of its human rights risk assessments. Specifically, the company should elaborate on the process it utilizes to identify human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, with a focus on its own operations. Although the company mentions conducting due diligence in general, it should be more explicit in stating that it conducts human rights due diligence, which entails identifying human rights risks and impacts within its supply chain.

Furthermore, the company could also include an explanation of what it considers to be its most important human rights issues. It could further disclose a global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate its salient human rights issues, including a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain.