How does Musim Mas monitor hotspots?
07 December 2019 | By Tiffany Goh, Editor: Stephanie Lim - Forest fires in Indonesia are common during the dry season, usually in July, August and September. Our Sustainability and Traceability team conducts daily hotspot monitoring across Indonesia and Malaysia via satellites, monitoring our own concession and our suppliers’ respectively. Together, our colleagues monitor over five million hectares of our and supplier’s concessions daily through satellites... more
Building a powerful relationship with our suppliers
15 August 2019 | By Carolyn Lim - With a few minutes to go before the supplier workshop begins, the supplier engagement team were busy greeting our suppliers, as if they were meeting old friends. These people came from operations that are located all over Indonesia... more
Can there be multiple pathways for NDPE compliance?
08 July 2019 | By Carolyn Lim - For the longest time,
the Singapore education system has been about a fixed pathway, that the only
way to educate efficiently is to subscribe to a hierarchy of subjects. At the
top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities and the bottom are the
arts. The education system
was designed to meet the needs of industrialism during the early days of the
nation's independence. The problem is that not all kids can make it through the
system... more
An Insightful First Step
15 April 2019 | By Tan Wei Rui - Two months into the industry,
I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to participate in a learning
journey organised by Conservation International (CI) to South Tapanuli, North
Sumatra. Also on the trip were other civil society organisations and buyers.
During the trip, we were introduced to CI’s social forestry programme for
smallholder farmers and visited an oil palm Plantation managed by a fellow
holding company... more
Emphasizing Sustainability in Business Schools
06 April 2019 | By Stephanie Lim - ‘Sustainability’ has become a hot term in businesses the past few years. However, in business schools, sustainability is not always a central focus of education. In a region where people have been working their way from rags to riches, running businesses for a better livelihood, sustainability is usually not on their top of mind.... more
Recapping 2018 in NDPE Implementation
27 December 2018 | By Carolyn Lim - As the year winds up, we reflected on the year behind us and most importantly, make plans for the year ahead of us... more
Why we prefer group-level engagement to meet our NDPE commitments
19 November 2018 | By
Carolyn Lim - Two years ago, we started preparing for our sustainability report. However, the internal inertia, given the workload of the verification for the
Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG), makes it very hard for our operational colleagues to focus on reporting.
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An Origin Story
29 October 2018 | By Yos Kusuma - Palm Oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, being present in about half of all packaged products sold in supermarkets. The plant grows in tropical rainforests, which are typically rich in biodiversity... more
No Small Matter
19 October 2018 | By Yos Kusuma - Meet the Field Assistant - they are fresh graduates, not farmers - but they are teaching experienced farmers how to farm better. They are part of an inspiring effort to improve the operational, and eventually, livelihoods of independent oil palm Smallholders in North Sumatra... more
Fruits of Our Labour
11 October 2018 | By Yos Kusuma - All parents want the best for their children, regardless of their profession. Parents working in one of the most sought-after commodity in the world,
Palm Oil , often have to work in the most remote of places. A research undertaken by UNICEF in 2016 sought to understand the impact of Indonesia’s
Palm Oil sector on children’s rights...
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Improving Access to Safer Water with Safe Water Gardens
03 October 2018 | By
Stephanie Lim - Iswinarti was relieved that her three children and herself no longer suffered from chronic diarrhea since the wastewater system, Safe Water Gardens (SWG), was installed half a year ago in her house in Kawal village, Bintan, Indonesia. Her relief stems from the worry that 370 children die every day from poor wastewater management in Indonesia ...
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