The Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards (AREA) 2023 is pleased to honor 78 outstanding business leaders and enterprises for championing sustainable and responsible business practices. Presented by leading regional NGO Enterprise Asia, the AREA is the most reputable award recognition program recognizing organizational efforts in creating a culture of compassion, integrity, and in being socially responsible corporate citizens. The AREA serves as a badge of excellence to spur further innovation and best-practice sharing for your organization and the world at large.
PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (PKT) was among the recipients who were conferred with the Social Empowerment Award. Established on 7 December 1977, PKT is one of the largest Urea and NPK producers in Asia. Today, PKT has 13 plantations which are 5 Ammonia plantations, 5 Urea plantations, and 3 NPK plantations. All of these plantations process up to millions of materials per year.
As an area located on the seacoast, the city of Bontang has a very high potential for marine commodity products. One of them is crab meat commodities found in restaurants and meat processing business centers. The most fundamental problem arising from this is the environmental pollution caused by the discharge of crab shell waste into the sea. Addressing the public’s concern for the environment is also a very important goal of this program.
Through innovations developed by the CSR team at PKT, crab shell waste is processed by the company into liquid chitosan products that have economic value as liquid fertilizer. With this innovation affecting the developing community, PKT hopes that economic independence will emerge from surrounding businesses and that a circular economic philosophy will be adopted by the community.
The success of this program is able to create several positive things for groups of companies and communities such as the additional income for 10 housewives, marginalized people involved in managing this program, and the hiring of 4 workers who were newly graduated students. Regarding the environmental dimension, this program has succeeded in converting 920kg of crab shell waste which could have polluted the environment with 108kg of environmentally friendly liquid chitosan products.
As one of the companies whose raw materials for the production process depend on natural resources, PKT is obliged to maintain the ecosystem’s sustainability and balance so as to create harmony between people, and the planet while fostering partnership, peace, and prosperity. Besides that, the company’s proactivity in creating community independence in social, educational, and economic terms is also one of its strategic steps in carrying out sustainability in the company’s business processes in the long term.
About Enterprise Asia
Enterprise Asia is a non-governmental organization in pursuit of creating an Asia that is rich in entrepreneurship as an engine toward sustainable and progressive economic and social development within a world of economic equality. Its two pillars of existence are investment in people and responsible entrepreneurship. Enterprise Asia works with governments, NGOs and other organizations to promote competitiveness and entrepreneurial development, in uplifting the economic status of people across Asia and in ensuring a legacy of hope, innovation and courage for the future generation. Please visit https://www.enterpriseasia.org/ for more information.
About Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards (AREA)
The Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards program recognizes and honors Asian businesses for championing sustainable and responsible entrepreneurship in the categories of Green Leadership, Investment in People, Health Promotion, Social Empowerment, Corporate Governance, Circular Economy Leadership, Corporate Sustainability Reporting, and Responsible Business Leadership. For more information, visit: https://enterpriseasia.org/area/.