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This year, International Women’s Day recognizes the centrality of gender equality, women’s empowerment and the realization of women’s right in achieving sustainable development under the theme “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”.
Sustainability is key to our business, as is female empowerment: one of the commitments of our APRIL2030 vision is Inclusive Progress, which includes targets to empower our people and communities through transformative initiatives in healthcare, education and gender inclusion.
Read more: How APRIL Promotes Gender Equality Today for A Sustainable Tomorrow
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Indonesia is blessed with abundant sunshine, making it the perfect place for our renewable plantations – and for solar power.
We’ve installed 1MW of solar panels at our operations in Pangkalan Kerinci as part of a project to install 20MW by 2025. When completed it will be one of the largest solar installations by a private company in Indonesia.
Read more: Walking on sunshine: How APRIL’s solar panels help reduce emissions
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A key part of our APRIL2030 commitment is to promote economic growth and provide inclusive opportunities for women – and where better to start than right on our doorstep?
BULAT KB is a group of 22 wives of APRIL Group employees who came together to set up a sustainable farm in our Riau Complex in Pangkalan Kerinci.
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Many of the employees living in and around our Riau Complex in Pangkalan Kerinci take company buses to work.
While these buses help reduce the number of vehicles on the roads, we wanted to go even further, and in September 2021 introduced the first-ever electric buses in Riau Province.
Read more: Electric buses encourage public transport and slash emissions