Sawit Sumbermas Sarana Tbk PT

1. Sustainable palm oil policy or commitment for all its operations?

2. Policy or commitment applies to direct and third-party suppliers?

3. High-level position of responsibility for sustainability?

Head of Sustainability.

4. Sustainability report published within last two years?

2017

5. Member of multiple industry schemes or other external initiatives to improve sustainability in relation to palm oil?

6. Verification report on compliance with POIG Charter, if a POIG member?

This indicator has been disabled as the company is not a POIG member.

7. Activities with government, NGOs or academic institutions to improve palm oil sustainability?

The company works with NGOs on orangutan conservation, with the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) and local people to restore an area in Central Kalimantan however these activities are focused on conservation and not on improving wider sustainability of palm oil.

8. Total land area managed/controlled for oil palm (ha)?

120708 - Figure includes smallholder areas. The company provides a different figure in its latest ACOP (72,544.53 ha).

9. Total oil palm planted area (ha)?

72537.8 - Figure excludes plasma area. The company provides a different figure in its latest ACOP (48,933.52 ha).

10. Plasma/scheme smallholders planted area (ha)?

9982.58 - The company provides a different figure in its latest ACOP (5,817.51 ha).

11. Unplanted (areas designated for future planting) (ha)?

16040

12. Conservation set-aside area, including HCV area (ha)?

5804 - The company provides a different figure in its latest ACOP (5,051.2 ha).

13. Area for infrastructure (ha)?

2945

14. Number and names of company owned mills?

6

15. Maps or coordinates of company owned mills?

One of the company's mills is available on Global Forest Watch.

16. Number and names of supplier mills?

This indicator has been disabled as only relevant for processors and traders.

17. Maps of estates/management units?

The company submitted maps to the RSPO in 2014 however no recent updates could be found.

18. Maps of scheme/plasma smallholders?

19. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to mill level?

This indicator has been disabled as only relevant for processors and traders.

20. Time-bound commitment to achieve 100% traceability to plantation level?

The company commits to full traceability but commitment is not time-bound.

21. Percentage of supply traceable to mill level (above 80%)?

This indicator has been disabled as only relevant for processors and traders.

22. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from own mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

23. Percentage of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from supplier mills traceable to plantation level (above 75%)?

This indicator has been disabled as only relevant for processors and traders.

24. Commitment to zero deforestation?

25. Deforestation commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

26. Criteria for defining deforestation?

HCS, HCV, peat.

27. Evidence of monitoring deforestation?

28. Examples of habitat management and/or habitat restoration?

The company puts up signs around HCV areas and works with the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) on forest rehabilitation in Tanjung Keluang Ecotourism Park.

29. Implementing a landscape-level approach to biodiversity conservation?

The company recognises the importance of "connectivity within the wider landscape" but no examples are given on implementing a landscape-level approach.

30. Commitment to biodiversity conservation?

31. Commitment to not endanger species of conservation concern, referencing international or national system of species classification?

The company commits to not endanger species of conservation concern without referencing an international or national species classification system.

32. Commitment to no hunting or only sustainable hunting of species?

33. Examples of species conservation activities?

34. Commitment to conduct High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments?

35. HCV commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

36. Commitment to only use licensed High Conservation Value (HCV) assessors accredited by the HCV Resource Network's Assessor Licensing Scheme (ALS)?

37. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for planting undertaken prior to January 2015, and associated management and monitoring plans?

38. High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments for all estates planted since January 2015?

The company has one HCV assessment publicly available since January 2015. It is unclear if this covers all the estates planted since then.

39. High Conservation Value (HCV) management and monitoring plans for all estates planted since January 2015?

The company has one HCV assessment publicly available since January 2015. It is unclear if this covers all the estates planted since then.

40. Satisfactory review of all High Conservation Value (HCV) assessments undertaken since January 2015 by the HCV ALS Quality Panel?

41. Commitment to the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach?

42. High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments?

43. Commitment to conduct social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs)?

The company only specifically mentions AMDAL.

44. Social and environmental impact assessments (SEIAs) undertaken, and associated management and monitoring plans?

45. Commitment to no planting on peat of any depth?

46. Peat commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

47. Commitment to best management practices for soils and peat?

The company only commits to implement best management practices for peat.

48. Landbank or planted area on peat?

9.4%

49. Evidence of best management practices for soils and peat?

50. Commitment to zero burning?

51. Zero burning commitment applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

52. Evidence of management and monitoring fires?

53. Details/number of hotspots/fires in company estates?

The company only reports that it has not recorded any fire cases due to land clearing in 2017. However it is unclear if other fire events (unrelated to land clearing) occurred or not.

54. Details/number of hotspots/fires within surrounding landscape/smallholders?

The company only reports that it has not recorded any fire cases due to land clearing in 2017. However it is unclear if other fire events (unrelated to land clearing) occurred or not.

55. Time-bound commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity?

56. GHG emissions from land use change?

The company provides data for its Sulung POM and Selangkun POM and their supply bases, but the data does not cover all of the company's operations.

57. Methodology used to calculate GHG emissions?

RSPO PalmGHG Calculator.

58. Progress towards commitment to reduce GHG emissions intensity?

59. Percentage of mills with methane capture (100%)?

60. Time-bound commitment to improve water use per tonne of FFB Processed?

61. Time-bound commitment to improve water quality (BOD and COD)?

62. Progress towards commitment on water use?

The company reported water use figures for 2017, but it is unclear how these figures compare to previous years.

63. Progress towards commitment on water quality (BOD and COD)?

64. Protection of natural waterways through buffer zones?

65. Evidence of treating palm oil mill effluent (POME)?

The company only states it has a "plan in 2018 to utilize palm oil mill effluent waste into biogas or renewable energy" and it is unclear if this plan has been implemented or not.

66. Commitment to minimise the use of chemicals, including pesticides and chemical fertilisers?

The company only mentions "reduce the use of chemicals that can harm soil fertility".

67. No use of paraquat?

The company works to eliminate use of paraquat by 2018.

68. No use of World Health Organisation (WHO) Class 1A and 1B pesticides?

69. No use of chemicals listed under the Stockholm Convention and Rotterdam Convention?

70. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach?

71. Chemical usage per ha or list of chemicals used?

72. Commitment to human rights, referencing the UN Declaration of Human Rights or UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?

73. Commitment to human rights applies to scheme smallholders and independent suppliers?

74. Commitment to respect legal and customary land tenure rights?

75. Commitment to respect indigenous and local communities' rights, referencing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples or ILO 169?

The company commits to respect indigenous and local communities' rights in relation to land tenure.

76. Commitment to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC)?

77. FPIC commitment applies to independent suppliers?

78. Details of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) process available?

79. Details of process for addressing land conflicts available?

80. Commitment to mitigate impacts on food security?

The company provides examples of projects regarding local food supply but no general commitment to mitigate impacts on food security was found.

81. Commitment to provide essential community services and facilities?

82. Commitment to respect all workers' rights?

83. Reference to Fundamental ILO Conventions or Free and Fair Labour Principles?

84. Total number of employees?

14113

85. Percentage or number of temporary employees?

8740 (61.9%)

86. Percentage or number of women employees?

26 (36.1%) - The company only provides gender information on the 72 employees recruited in 2017.

87. Commitment to pay minimum wage?

The company commits to pay the legal minimum wage but no evidence (e.g. ratio of entry level wage to local minimum wage) is provided.

88. Commitment to address occupational health and safety?

89. Time lost due to work-based injuries?

90. Number of fatalities as a result of work-based accidents?

91. Provision of personal protective equipment and pesticide training?

92. Member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)?

2007

93. Submitted most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

94. Listed all countries and regions in which operates in most recent RSPO Annual Communication of Progress (ACOP)?

95. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of estates within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of estates?

2020

96. Time-bound plan for achieving 100% RSPO certification of scheme/associated smallholders within 5 years or achieved 100% RSPO-certification of scheme/associated smallholders?

2022

97. Year expected to achieve 100% RSPO certification of all palm product processing facilities?

This indicator has been disabled as only relevant for processors and traders.

98. RSPO-certified within three years of joining the RSPO or by November 2010, for companies joining prior to finalisation of the RSPO certification systems in November 2007?

The company became a member in 2007 and achieved its first certification in 2013.

99. Percentage of mills RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

3 (50%)

100. Percentage of area (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

28209.1 (39%)

101. Percentage of scheme/associated smallholders (ha) RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

None of the company's scheme smallholders are RSPO certified.

102. Percentage of FFB supply (tonnes) from independent FFB suppliers that is RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

None of the company's independent suppliers are RSPO certified.

103. Percentage of all palm oil and oil palm products handled/traded/processed (tonnes) that are RSPO-certified (above 75%)?

This indicator has been disabled as only relevant for processors and traders.

104. Sells or processes/trades RSPO-certified palm oil through Segregated or Identity Preserved supply chains?

The company sells certified palm oil as Mass Balance.

105. Indonesia Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certified (100%)?

Only parts of the company's operations are ISPO certified. The company has a target to become fully ISPO certified by 2020.

106. Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certified?

This indicator has been disabled as the company does not operate in Malaysia.

107. Certified under voluntary sustainability certification scheme (e.g. ISCC, SAN, RSB, etc.)?

Part of the company's operations are ISO 14001 certified.

108. Programme to support scheme smallholders?

109. Number or percentage of scheme smallholders involved in programme?

110. Programme to support independent smallholders?

Awareness raising of RSPO and ISPO, capacity building and technical assistance on good agricultural practices.

111. Number or percentage of independent smallholders involved in programme?

112. Process used to prioritise, assess and/or engage suppliers on compliance with company's policy and/or legal requirements?

The company provides some details on the selection and evaluation of its suppliers in relation to human rights.

113. Suspension or exclusion criteria for suppliers?

114. Percentage of suppliers assessed and/or engaged on compliance with company requirements?

115. Commitment to ethical conduct and prohibition of corruption?

116. Whistleblowing procedure?

117. Own grievance or complaints system?

118. Grievance or complaints system is accessible to internal and external stakeholders?

119. Details of grievances disclosed?