It
has become a common knowledge that SukantoTanoto is a great person with great business and great heart. Great enough
to help the people of Indonesia, he was born at a place where he started his
business to achieve better living and get quality of services. Not only does he
care about the running of his business, Mr. Tanoto also pays high concern
towards the development of people in Indonesia, including in education,
economy, and social services. Through the foundation’s philanthropic
activities, so many programs have been held, lots of facilities built, and
trainings to assist local farmers in achieving a better quality of life.
Smallholders Honored with Award from the Government
Sukanto
Tanoto through Tanoto Foundation is not only focusing on educational
sector, just as is frequently reported, but it also emphasizes the importance
of empowering local people, whom, we know, are unable to reach maximum
facilities provided by the government. It is because the rural location is
somehow making them difficult to be ‘spotted’, but Tanoto Foundation catches
the issue and helps to solve it, instead.
Mr.
Tanoto believes that local community empowerment is one of crucial points to
reduce poverty and improve living quality in Indonesia. One of the prominent
programs recognized by the government is the plasma smallholders program. It is
one of the company’s efforts to perform good stewardship by means of
cooperating with small-scale farmers around the business area.
The
program is practiced by Asian Agri, one of RGE Group companies, with $15
billion assets. The company works together with the smallholders in
implementing the best farming practice to allow the local farmers to develop
sustainable environment and produce high yielding crops. Through this program, five
plasma smallholder cooperatives have received an award from the government,
regarding the significant achievement in agricultural sector. The award is
presented by the Minister of Cooperatives and Small
and Medium Enterprises himself, namely, Mr. Syarif Hasan in 2013.
Asian Agri Builds Partnerships with Many Local Cooperatives
In
addition to the report, among three of those five cooperatives, namely KUD Jaya
Makmur, KUD Sumber Makmur, and KUD Tani Maju are the partners of Asian Agri. Sukanto Tanoto through the
company teaches farmers about innovative seedling technique and agricultural
instruction. The company allows the farmers to learn about pest control
techniques.
As
a part of the partnership with the smallholders, Asian Agri also develops
infrastructure for the local communities. It aims to create independent
agricultural producers. Until today, more than 29,000 families of the
smallholders have been assisted by Asian Agri. Mr. Sukanto Tanoto will continue
to improve the program by developing one-third of the company’s land along with
Plasma and KPPA smallholders.
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