InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - PT Sawit Sumbermas Sarana Tbk (SSMS) always runs sustainable palm oil business practices, maintains, and takes care of the surrroundings. These are reflected by many sustainable standards and certification that the company has had both locally and internationally, such as, ISO 14001:2015 Environment Management System, Environement Management Work Assessment (Proper), Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO), and Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
The commitment to certify business unit is not only about to get regulation standards but as the will and seriousness to realize good governance and minimize every negative effect, which is, there would be no more deforestation, no new planting in peat, there is no fire, and implementing NDPE (No Peat, Deforestation and Exploitation) in sustainable palm oil plantation practices.
To confirm sustainability of business, SSMS does maximally to cultivate, protect every region in high conservation values, forest, and peat in its operational. Particularly in peat, SSMS is in cooperation with external consultants to identify the peat, level of mature, depth of peat, recommendation to monitoring in regional cultivation which are categorized in peat just like what the government regulated.
To reduce carbon emission that delivers impacts to the globe, SSMS encourages environmental operational, which is, using sources of renewable energy by advantaging fiber and palm oil shell as the alternative to powerplants. Other initiatives that SSMS does is that since 2018 the company operates one 2,4 megawatt biogas factory that could capture methane gas from palm oil mill effluent and changes it to be renewable source.
As in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Monday (8/5/2023), SSMS also confirmed that waste is responsibly managed just like the regulations in Indonesia. every waste from the factory is 100% re-used, such as, advantaging liquid waste, empty husk to minimize chemical pesticide application.
By advantaging palm oil waste as alternative source of energy, SSMS would realize to handle climate change and energy independency. Not only to fulfill internal energy needs, but in phase it could help power needs for the villages around the company. (T2)
