Through the Community Empowerment Program, Semen Baturaja Wins the 2024 BISRA Award

JAKARTA – PT Semen Baturaja Tbk (SMBR) as a subsidiary of PT Semen Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (SIG) won the Silver Champion award at the 2024 Bisnis Indonesia Social Responsibility Awards (BISRA) thanks to its superior Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program.

The award was received directly by the Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility SMBR Gili Aprial Braja at the Raffles Hotel, Jakarta on Thursday (27/6). In line with the theme of this year’s award, namely “Paving The Way Sustainable Business: Innovation CSR”, SMBR was deemed successful in carrying out a community empowerment program through “SMBR Economic & Education Beefarm”.

According to Gili, SMBR continues to develop sustainable business strategies that have a positive impact on the surrounding environment in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of which is the economic pillar which aims to improve the welfare and economy of the community.

Through the “SMBR Economic and Education Beefarm” program, it has succeeded in implementing the economic pillar, one of the villages being supported by CSR, SMBR is collaborating with the Farmer’s Group and BUMDes Maju Mandiri Laya to manage trigona bee cultivation and develop the honey business. By utilizing vacant community land into a beneficial program, village communities are invited to actively participate, and are given education and training in managing to produce quality honey production.

“Thanks to this program, at the beginning of last June, we together with BUMDes succeeded in carrying out the first honey harvest which produced 250 ml. “The honey produced can be sold and labeled by the community itself, which ultimately provides opportunities for economic value for them,” said Gili.

Meanwhile, President Commissioner of Bisnis Indonesia Group, Hariyadi Sukamdani, said that holding BISRA 2024 does not merely provide appreciation for companies in carrying out social responsibility.

“The BISRA 2024 implementation model is designed in such a way that it can be a barometer of the quality of the implementation of CSR programs, as well as a benchmark for the extent and extent of the benefits for society and life,” said Hariyadi in his speech at the BISRA 2024 awards ceremony. (*)