Indonesia

We believe that a strong and secure business depends upon a strong and secure relationship in the communities where we operate.

It was in 1968 that PT Inco signed a Contract of Work agreement with the Indonesian government that granted us mining and development rights covering specified areas in the provinces of South, Southeast and Central Sulawesi. Since then, we have gone on to develop one of the most successful operations of our business. We have done so mindful that we have a responsibility to help advance the economic and social development of the country and that our presence in Indonesia must be beneficial to its people.

Over the years, we have endeavoured to act upon this responsibility, preferably in ways that empower local individuals and groups to take charge of their own communities and futures.

It's a strategy, we believe, that promotes sustainable prosperity.

  2004 PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

Education and Training

• Provided scholarships to 820 elementary and high school students and 15 undergraduate and post-graduate university students.
• Provided an opportunity for more than 200 students to complete three-month work terms at PT Inco, focusing on a range of business activities.
• Continued our long-standing collaboration with Hasanuddin University, hosting 14 co-op students and five lecturers for six months at PT Inco while they completed assignments that reflected their academic specialties.
• Sponsored a program to assist local communities by providing honorarium assistance for about 600 public school teachers in remote areas.
• Provided transportation to schools; renovated schools and helped them acquire learning and teaching materials such as computers and books; assisted students in organizing educational events; and funded training for more than 500 teachers.

Health

• Provided free medical treatment to all PT Inco employees and their dependants.
• Provided free as well as subsidized medical treatment to more than 12,000 local people who were not directly associated with PT Inco and who otherwise could not have afforded medical assistance.
• Committed to an extensive program to upgrade our PT Inco Hospital.
• Upgraded the Puskesmas (local community clinics) so local people would have better medical facilities in their home communities; these clinics have an ongoing relationship on a "referral basis" to the PT Inco Hospital.
• Collaborated with the Regency of East Luwu to establish Primary Community Health Centers in Sorowako and Towuti.

Agriculture

• Provided funding for farm equipment and supplies such as hand-held tractors, rice mill processing equipment, fertilizer and rice seed.
• Continued to provide agricultural counselling.

Community and Culture

• Introduced a new program promoting regular inter-faith dialogues to help meet the needs of East Luwu district, a culturally and religiously heterogeneous community that has experienced a number of transcommunal conflicts between Muslims and Christians.
• Conducted peace campaigns in churches and mosques with the support of local religious leaders.
• Sponsored special events and seminars to support and promote traditional culture in the community.

Infrastructure Development

• Initiated a Community Development Framework with the goal of developing strategic partnerships with local government, non-governmental organizations, people's organizations and communities in order to create greater capability and self-reliance.

  2005 GOALS

• Continue to advance our Community Development Framework in order to improve the quality of education, health care, agriculture and entrepreneurship in our neighbouring communities.
• Continue to realign our workforce in order to achieve productivity improvements.
• Continue to focus on improving and integrating medical services provided by government and PT Inco.
• Work to improve education services by upgrading PT Inco-run schools and working with the government to improve facilities and upgrade teacher skills in the government-run schools in the area.
• Provide capacity building programs for the local community to improve knowledge, skill, performance and productivity through training, workshop and technical assistance, consistent with the new paradigm of our community development program and corporate social responsibility.