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COMMUNITY
LIVELIHOOD

Empowering Communities
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Apart from job opportunities, Apical
supports income diversification among
local communities by providing training
programmes to develop their skills.
For example, our SDS refinery in Lubuk
Gaung, Dumai implemented the Kelompok
Usaha Bersama programme which aims to
equip residents with skills related to growing share knowledge and improve participants’
onion and chilli as well as goat farming. skills in various areas. This includes training
Through a collaboration with the local women to become entrepreneurs by turning
agriculture department, we taught local their hobbies into a source of income. In
farmers to plant, grow and harvest chilli. 2020, we supported the opening of a new
As of 2020, the chilli farmers were managing barbershop which is managed by local
21 farms, harvesting 0.5kg of chilli every two women who participated in this programme.
weeks. The goat farming programme saw The programme also trained aspiring female
an increase in the number of goats farmed, bakers.
from 10 in 2018 when it was first introduced
to 87 in 2020. Throughout 2020, our SDS In 2020, we also held English Language
refinery provided PKE pulp as additional feed lessons for 26 children from local communities
for the goats on a monthly basis. aged between nine and 12 as part of the
project. However, the face-to-face lessons
Our SDS refinery also continued to run have been put on hold due to the coronavirus
the Rumah Pintar project which aims to outbreak and its continuity will be reviewed
provide a unique collaborative space to in 2021.

Supporting Smallholders

While smallholders contribute
significantly to the production of palm
oil in Indonesia, they continue to face
challenges in productivity and meeting
sustainability standards. Apical is
committed to helping smallholders
adopt sustainable practices and
facilitating their inclusion in our supply
chain.

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