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Community Livelihood

Respecting the Rights of Indigenous and Local Communities
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Apical respects the legal and customary Since our facilities are located in designated
rights of local communities in land tenure industrial zones, our operations are unlikely
and ownership. Any access or use of such to have a direct impact on the rights of
land for development must be carried out in indigenous communities. Apical engages
compliance with the Free, Prior and Informed accredited consultants and government
Consent (FPIC) procedure, the RSPO agencies to carry out environmental
Principles & Criteria and the United Nations impact analysis or Analisis Mengenai
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Dampak Lingkungan (AMDAL) for any new
Peoples or ILO 169. developments and/or expansion projects that
may affect surrounding communities and the
environment in Indonesia.

Apical plays an active role in preventing land
conflicts within our supply chain. We require
our upstream suppliers to conduct rigorous
assessments to determine whether there
is land belonging to indigenous people and
local communities that will be affected by new
developments. If the proposed development
project has a potential to affect their land,
the FPIC procedure must be implemented.
To guide our suppliers in applying the FPIC
process, we have developed an FPIC guideline
which is available on our website.

FREE PRIOR INFORMED CONSENT
A self-directed Consent is sought Indigenous group The decision is
process by those sufficiently in being impacted made collectively
affected to advance of any receive satisfactory by the right holders
voluntarity give activities information on the and reached
consent without commencing of key points of the through a
coercion, being authorised. project. customary
intimidation or decision-making
manipulation. process of the
communities.

Should the need arise, we aim to resolve social conflicts with all relevant parties in a fair and
transparent manner through Apical’s Grievance Procedure. In 2020, there were no incidents
involving the rights of the indigenous peoples at our sites or related to our suppliers.

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