MIND ID Strengthens ESG Foundation for Downstreaming and Sustainable Future of Indonesia

MIND ID or Mining Industry Indonesia, the Holding State-Owned Enterprise for the Mining Industry, is consistent in adopting the ESG or Environmental, Social and Governance principles as part of each mining business process.

The sustainable commitment is implemented at each phase of pre-mining through the nursery program of endemic seedlings and environmental baseline study to the operations and post-mining stage through integrated reclamation and public empowerment in operational areas.

MIND ID Corporate Secretary, Pria Utama, stated that MIND ID as a strategic Active Holding, is consistent in integrating all programs aimed at the ability to provide sustainable benefits for future development.

The ESG principles are implemented comprehensively into the business process, and efforts are undertaken to enable the provision of long term benefits for development and welfare of the people.

“The implementation of business process based on sustainability is a long term strategy in building civilization. We will continue to ensure that mining activities provide economic benefits while at the same time, ecosystem balance for the sake of a sustainable future,” he said.

Actual achievements can be seen in a number of state enterprise members of MIND ID or Mining Industry Indonesia, the Holding State-Owned Enterprise for the Mining Industry. PT Freeport Indonesia, for instance, has planted 164 types of plants at the former tailing deposition land and reclamation test area. 

About 100 hectares of tailing area in MP21 have been managed as multi-beneficial land for plantation, agriculture, fishery, and livestock, and at the same time, utilized as a facility for environmental education and conservation – proof that land rehabilitation provides ecological and social added value after two decades of management.

Since 2005, as many as 1,552 hectares of estuary land flowed by tailings have also been rehabilitated through the planting of mangrove, strengthening the function of the area as a coastal natural stronghold and carbon capture land.

In the efforts of energy transition and emission reduction, PT Aneka Tambang Tbk operates the Solar Power Generator System or PLTS in Pongkor gold mine, which has managed to reduce CO2‚ emission in the tens of thousand tons per year and constitutes a concrete step for the transformation of energy in the mining sector.

Meanwhile, PT Timah Tbk continues to be actively moving in the local social economic empowerment efforts in Bangka Belitung through the UMKM (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) coaching program, digitalization of business, and capital access.

These programs open opportunities for small business players to enter the mining supply chain and boost capacity building as well as income several UMKMs under this guidance program post income increase of up to an average 30 percent.

Pria Utama stressed that the downstream programs of MIND ID or Mining Industry Indonesia, the Holding State-Owned Enterprise for the Mining Industry, have been designed to provide inclusive benefits not only in terms of the economic value, but also from the social and environmental aspects.

“For us, the ESG principle is not only a compliance to regulation; this is a strategic move to ensure that every operational activity brings actual impact: restore and maintain natural balance while at the same time, promote the welfare of the surrounding communities,” he said.