Bumitama Agri

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses the frequency and channels it uses to engage with its stakeholder groups.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
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 and reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
Bumitama Agri has a commitment to ensure zero conversion. Furthermore, the company has a time-bound target for its ecosystem restoration activities, and discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
Bumitama Agri discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. Also, the company regularly reports on water pollution.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
Bumitama Agri is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Also, the company discloses its processes to identify and recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights, and describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

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 respecting the health and safety of workers and expects its business relationships to do the same. It describes how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and discloses the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Respect human rights
Bumitama Agri has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect human rights and indicates it has a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers as well as all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
Bumitama Agri discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including biodiversity, climate, social inclusion and ecosystem conversion. However, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Also, the company could link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Furthermore, it states that the board of directors has expertise in soil health, it could improve its transparency by disclosing whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
While Bumitama Agri has a target to achieve conversion-free supply chains, it does not cover all high-risk commodities. Additionally, the company does not disclose activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains, and is not committed to restoring ecosystems.

GHG emissions
Bumitama Agri should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While Bumitama Agri conducts High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments for new developments, there’s an opportunity for the company to assess its impacts on nature, particularly biodiversity, across all its own operations and supply chains. Additionally, the company could benefit from identifying and disclosing its dependencies on nature both within its operations and in its upstream business relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
While the company does disclose species from the IUCN Red List identified in its operational regions, it still has an opportunity to provide a comprehensive list of all species present in or adjacent to its own locations, not just those that are endangered. Additionally, there’s room for improvement in detailing locations near areas critical for biodiversity both within its operations and those of its suppliers. It could also enhance reporting by disclosing species populations existing in or adjacent to the locations of its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding Bumitama Agri’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not disclose relevant information related to pollution in its operations or supply chains.

Water
Bumitama Agri has an opportunity to disclose eligible, relevant information on water withdrawal. No evidence was found that the company sets targets to reduce water pollution. Furthermore, the company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water or disclose its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not disclose its processes to identify and recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights or describe how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
Bumitama Agri 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 formalize 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 formalize this commitment in a public policy document and establish a policy detailing its approach to lobbying and political engagement. Additionally, the company could disclose its expenditures on lobbying activities and require third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy.

Provide and promote decent work
While Bumitama Agri states that it pays its employees minimum wage, it has the opportunity to commit to a living wage by setting a time-bound target and can extend this requirement to its suppliers while disclosing how it supports such payment. The company 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 formalize these commitments in a public policy document and set time-bound targets. Although the board has 14.28% female representation, the company has the opportunity to disclose the ratio of basic salary and remuneration between women and men across all employee categories and significant locations of operation.

Respect human rights
Bumitama Agri has a publicly available policy statement committing to 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, share the results of its human rights risk assessment, and unveil a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate these issues.