PROJECT TREE
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Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ owns PT Aneka Bumi Pratama(PT ABP), one of Indonesia¡¯s largest natural rubber processing companies with two factories on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the provinces of South Sumatra and Jambi, respectively. Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ became a founding member of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) in 2018.
PT ABP buys its rubber supplies from smallholder farmers operating small plantations mostly in southern and central Sumatra. A network of mostly independently operating collectors, dealers and agents buy the rubber at the farms, at village collection points, or at local auctions and transport it to PT ABP¡¯s factories. The structure is typical for Indonesian rubber. It is complex with little transparency of the actual flows of rubber. It thus does not lend itself for downstream companies to actively help to improve sustainable production.
Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ therefore designed its new natural rubber transparency and sustainability program, ¡±PROJECT TREE¡±, as one way to implement its CSR policy and to apply the guidelines of GPSNR to its rubber supply chain. PROJECT TREE has just begun its activities and is expected to grow and address as many of rubber production¡¯s sustainability issues as possible over time and as they become known.