Musi Banyuasin (MUBA) regency has one of the highest numbers of supplier mills in our supply base. MUBA is the province’s second-largest district and its largest palm oil producer.
Although deforestation in MUBA has been severe, many forests remain (160,000 hectares). This includes three protected areas covering 75,000 hectares that protect important tiger habitats, including the Sembilang-Dangku landscape.
MUBA offers a unique combination of supportive local government, numerous progressive companies, and multiple landscape initiatives that create a rare platform for change. The regency is the first to work towards RSPO Jurisdictional Certification.
Following our Landscape Strategy for Aceh published in 2020, we have applied the lessons learned to guide our next steps.
Building on this progress, Musim Mas expanded its landscape approach in September 2024 to include Aceh, Riau, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, Central Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan under Musim Mas’ Priority Landscapes Strategy 2024
The landscape strategy comprises three objectives: Engagement, Assurance, and Monitoring and Response. This will fulfill a key component of the Group’s updated NDPE Roadmap to 2025, which commits to developing landscape strategies for all the Group’s remaining key sourcing regions.
Firstly, the Engagement objective entails outreach to independent smallholders and mills to convey NDPE requirements and the possible consequences of non-compliance.
The Assurance objective has components to ensure that the mills supplying crude palm oil and palm kernels to Musim Mas are NDPE compliant.
Finally, the Monitoring and Response objective contains proactive elements to detect and verify deforestation at the landscape or jurisdictional level.
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We implemented our ‘Train the Smallholders’ program for the independent smallholders in the supply chain of one of our suppliers’ mills, PT Bastian Olah Sawit (PT BOS), to assist them in improving their productivity through the implementation of good agricultural practices. PT BOS belongs to one of the supplier groups prioritized for engagement.
