InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the commemoration of Hari Peduli Sampah Nasional (HPSN) every 21 February, PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk. (ANJ) through its two subsidiaries, PT Sahabat Mewah dan Makmur (SMM) in District of Belitung Timur, and PT Gading Mas Indonesia Teguh (GMIT) in Jember, East Java Province did some activities by involving the local people to realize healthy and clean environment.

On 17 February, SMM and the villagers of Liring, and the officials of Village of Renggiang did Giat Jumat Sehat which was the collaboration among the village, the people, and SMM to realize the local people around the company’s operation that it is very important to put every waste into its pots to get good looking and healthy environment for the same health. It was running in Dusun Liring, Village of Renggiang, Sub district of Simpang Renggiang, Belitung Timur. Every people did walk and pick every garbage along the way they walked on.

In Giat Jumat Sehat artificial plantations and forestry trees were planted around the yard of Padang Lutung that villagers of Dusun Liring have for generations. Besides, everyone should work together to clean up their surroundings.

“This is a good collaboration program which is very good for our same interests. As village’s officials and villagers that live side by side with the company, we do welcome the good program Giat Jumat Sehat. Besides directly contributing to the environment we do know and interact closer with every team in SMM and in the reverse,” Head of Village of Renggiang said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT.

Resident Director SMM, Juli Wankara Purba told that the main aspect from ANJ’s responsible approach is to analyze the environmental impacts from the company’s operational and deliver advantages for the community as the collaborative ways to get long term change. The collaboration was the good thing to maintain the balance among the company, the people, and the environment. “We do hope, the collaboration program would keep running sustainably and be positive for every party,” Purba said.

GMIT did commemorate HPSN this year by delivering education and campaign about the danger of plastic, education to use environmental plastic bags in the housing. On 20 February, GMIT gave goodie bags for the people around and the smallholders in the areas of edamame of GMIT in Village of Wonojati, Sub district of Ajung. It was about to change the people’s habits of using plastic bag namely to take the villagers to reduce single use – plastic bags. (T2)