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  • Integrated Farming System

    The Integrated Farming System (IFS) is a key component of APRIL’S community development strategy and has three main focus areas:

    • Training villagers in farming activities such as horticulture, vegetable farming, livestock rearing and husbandry, and freshwater aquaculture.
    • Providing start-up investments, tools and materials.
    • Providing technical and managerial guidance through APRIL Indonesia’s Community Development field officers.

    Since its inception, the IFS programme has progressed from affecting only 170 hectares in 1999 to over 1,200 hectares of village farmland in 2010. In the past 3 years, 566 farmers received training and cultivated 4,845 hectares through our IFS programme and training centres.

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  • Community Fiber Farms

    Community Fiber FarmsOur Community Fiber Farms program fosters partnerships with land owners in the community to establish their own Acacia plantations. APRIL provides financing or assistance in securing financing, seedlings, and fertilizers; and maintains the plantations. After six years, the harvested wood contributes to our fiber requirements and the villagers have a 40% share in production on dry lands and 30% share on lowlands.

    The scheme runs for up to six rotations, or approximately 40 years. By helping the local farmers become partners to our operations, we also tap the skills of traditional loggers. Our aim is also to provide this latter group with an alternative means of livelihood. Lacking the necessary licenses and approvals, they might otherwise be driven to illegal logging.

    The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Center for Corporate Social Responsibility adjudged our Community Fiber Farm Program as runner-up in the Environmental Excellence category of its Asian CSR Awards 2005. The Awards recognize the best CSR practices among companies operating in the region and attracted hundreds of entries from 91 companies across 12 countries.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • Small & Medium-scale Enterprise

    Small and Medium-scale Enterprise

    APRIL Indonesia’s Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) development programme provides aspiring entrepreneurs with technical and financial assistance to stimulate wealth and job creation.

    This programme supports a wide scope of businesses, including those directly related to APRIL operations and those that are not. Examples of businesses closely connected to our operations are fibre plantation planting and maintenance teams, harvesting contractors and transport services. Other SMEs receive vocational training in livelihood skills such as tailoring, honey production and carpentry.

    APRIL supports more than 130 local SMEs and this support has helped to create more than 1,600 jobs.


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  • Community
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