NATIONAL mining issuer PT Bumi Resources Tbk (BUMI) confirmed that post-mining was completed (stage mine outBUMI is not only committed to implementing environmental restoration programs through reclamation programs, but also contributing to maintaining the welfare and economy of communities around former mining areas.
“This is a challenge for BUMI, how to keep the local economy empowered after mining and its management are completed. Therefore, from the beginning, BUMI has embraced the community to try to have other economic movements that can support welfare, in accordance with the potential of the community around the operational land,” said BUMI President Director, Adika Nuraga Bakrie in Jakarta, Monday (30/7).
He emphasized that the Community Development and Empowerment Program (PPM) around the mining location is one of the important points in the principles Good Mining Practice which BUMI applies in all lines of activity.
However, he continued, what is no less important is BUMI’s consistent efforts in ensuring the welfare of residents around the mine. “We strive for the economic independence of the surrounding community to continue to run optimally, even though the mine that has been the center of community activities has finished operating,” explained Adika Nuraga Bakrie.
He said, for more than half a decade of managing coal in the archipelago, BUMI and all its subsidiaries such as Arutmin and Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) continue to maintain their commitment to contribute to empowering the economy of residents around mining operational locations.
This aims to ensure that when mining management in the area is completed, the community has independence in the non-mining economic sector, so that the level of community welfare can be maintained and even improved.
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Some programs that have been run by Arutmin, in the economic field include facilitating micro-financing, developing funds through home industries, assisting in agricultural and fisheries cultivation. In the socio-cultural field, such as creating community-based fishing village tourism, organizing sports competitions, empowering small communities, and supporting religious activities.
Meanwhile, programs run by KPC include strengthening micro-enterprises, paving the way for greater absorption of ready-to-work workers, and providing MSME assistance through the Resilient MSME Program.
Then the post-mining land utilization program for livestock businesses, the initiative to develop Independent Villages. In addition, initiating the formation of BUMDes where several types of businesses are carried out such as ecotourism management, compost processing, freshwater fish spawning, transportation services, culinary, and so on.
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KPC, through its mine water utilization program to support the provision of clean water, has operated Water Treatment Plant or the Kudungga Water Treatment Plant (IPA), East Kutai. Meanwhile, Arutmin actively supports clean water and sanitation facilities and infrastructure in the form of drilled wells, sensors devicewater towers, and reservoirs in the operational area of the Asamamam Mine.
Regarding waste management, KPC has built the Sangatta Integrated Waste Management Facility, as a driver for the development of a circular community economy through the utilization of waste into a condition zero waste. (Ant/E-2)
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