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Annual Stakeholder Visit To The BBCP Area - Ketapang

Bumitama Agri Ltd hosted stakeholders on site visits to their Bumitama Biodiversity and Community Project conservation areas on March 26th and 28th. Partners from organizations like IDH, Aidenvironment, and YIARI witnessed first-hand the progress made in activities like indigenous plant nurseries, mushroom farms, and natural integrated farming plots. On subsequent visits, representatives from local government institutions inspected the conservation areas based on a decree designating them as Kawasan Ekosistem Esensial areas. The head of the local development agency was enthusiastic about the prospect of conservation and capacity building for local people in the areas. Bumitama will continue working with regional government on safeguarding the areas through spatial

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Annual Stakeholder Visit To The BBCP Area - Ketapang

Bumitama Agri Ltd hosted stakeholders on site visits to their Bumitama Biodiversity and Community Project conservation areas on March 26th and 28th. Partners from organizations like IDH, Aidenvironment, and YIARI witnessed first-hand the progress made in activities like indigenous plant nurseries, mushroom farms, and natural integrated farming plots. On subsequent visits, representatives from local government institutions inspected the conservation areas based on a decree designating them as Kawasan Ekosistem Esensial areas. The head of the local development agency was enthusiastic about the prospect of conservation and capacity building for local people in the areas. Bumitama will continue working with regional government on safeguarding the areas through spatial

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Bumitama Agri Ltd

10 Anson Road #11-19


International Plaza, Singapore 079903
Tel : +65 6222 1332
Fax : +65 6222 1336

NEWS RELEASE

* BBCP UPDATES – CONSERVATION AND BIODIVERSITY *


ANNUAL STAKEHOLDER VISIT TO THE BBC PROJECT AREA

Jakarta, 5 April 2018 – On 26 and 28 March 2018, the Bumitama Biodiversity and Community
Project (“BBCP”) team hosted a number of visitors in the conservation areas of the project,
located in PT Gemilang Makmur Subur (“GMS”). First, as a part of our annual progress update,
we have invited our project partners from IDH – Sustainable trade initiative, Aidenvironment
and Yayasan International Animal Rescue Indonesia (“YIARI”), together with a representative
from RSPO.

All our partners had a chance to witness first-hand the progress that has been made, visiting
our indigenous plant nursery, mushroom farm, natural integrated farming which includes
vegetables and fruits plots, fish farming and plots for poultry and cattle rearing. This site will
be used as the “show, teach and harvest centre” for the local people from the 8 villages which
had been selected important to BBCP. The team also had the opportunity to hike one of the
tracks used by the patrolling team and catch their wind in a gazebo surrounded by trees with
a river running next to it. The finale of the event was the opportunity to climb a watchtower,
which was built 16 meters high, around a tree.
Subsequently, we have welcomed the Ketapang Development Planning Agency (Bappeda),
representatives of 5 Regional Offices (Dinas), local Camat and representatives of other Local
Government institutions to our project site to conduct ground checking of the conservation
areas based on the SK (Decree) on the Kawasan Ekosistem Esensial (“KEE”) areas, issued by
the Governor of West Kalimantan in late 2017.
Pak Akia, the Head of Bappeda was enthusiastic about the prospect of conservation of the
areas proposed by Bumitama. Our project promotes capacity building of local people using
the natural integrated farming with a potential to develop an industrial scale project, where
the trained local persons could harness their new skills for economic opportunities. The
aggregation of these talents offers a scalable potential of businesses as well as opportunities
for ecotourism and wildlife studies.

The event was held in the spirit of inclusion with a wide participation of stakeholders. The
support of the Government is vital in the process of safeguarding the set aside areas.
Bumitama will continue working together with the representatives of the Regional
Government in preparation of decree that would safeguard the set aside areas for
conservation under the spatial planning of the Ketapang Region.

For further information, please email:

Christina Lim
Email: [email protected]

Lim Sian Choo


Email: [email protected]

Glenn Ho
Email: [email protected]

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