{"id":15729,"date":"2021-06-22T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/22\/asian-agri-committed-to-preventing-forest-and-land-fires-in-the-midst-of-the-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:15:00","slug":"asian-agri-committed-to-preventing-forest-and-land-fires-in-the-midst-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/22\/asian-agri-committed-to-preventing-forest-and-land-fires-in-the-midst-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Agri Committed to Preventing Forest and Land Fires in the Midst of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">TEBO, INDONESIA &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 22 June 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b>In the midst of the Covid-19&#13;<br \/>\npandemic, Asian Agri remains committed to preventing forest and land fires in&#13;<br \/>\nthe villages around company&#8217;s operational areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">&#8220;In spite of the pandemic, Asian Agri business unit PT Rigunas Agri Utama&#13;<br \/>\n(PT RAU), remains committed to implementing the Fire Free Village Program (FFVP)&#13;<br \/>\nin participating villages to prevent fires. Today (9\/6), there are five&#13;<br \/>\nvillages signing the FFVP MoU: Teriti Village, Tuo Sumay Village, Muara Sekalo&#13;<br \/>\nVillage, Suo-Suo Village, and Semambu Village. Through the FFVP, the company works&#13;<br \/>\nclosely with village officials, government agencies, TNI and Polri to assist&#13;<br \/>\nand support fire prevention activities and provide firefighting assistance where&#13;<br \/>\nrequired by the villages,&#8221; said Bibit Sembiring, Estate Manager of PT RAU,&#13;<br \/>\nKebun Bungo Tebo. He was accompanied by Hafiz Hazalin Sinaga, Manager of the&#13;<br \/>\nAsian Fire Free Village Program. Hafiz added that Asian Agri started the Fire&#13;<br \/>\nFree Village Program in Jambi in 2017 to great success.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">&#8220;Asian Agri is a plantation company that is part of the Royal Golden&#13;<br \/>\nEagle (RGE) group, which manages a group of resource-based manufacturing&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies with global operations. We always strive to benefit the community and&#13;<br \/>\nthe environment where we operate. One of our many efforts is the Fire Free&#13;<br \/>\nVillage Program, which raises awareness in the village communities on the&#13;<br \/>\ndangers of forest and land fires, equipping them with the knowledge and&#13;<br \/>\nresources to prevent forest and land fires in their villages,&#8221; said Hafiz.\u00a0 RGE was founded by Sukanto Tanoto, and will&#13;<br \/>\ncelebrate its 55<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">&#8220;The Fire Free Village Program started in Jambi in 2017, has proven&#13;<br \/>\neffective in preventing forest and land fires. Prior to the program, the&#13;<br \/>\naverage fire size in the village was 20 hectares. However, since joining the&#13;<br \/>\nFire Free Village Program, there are two completely fire-free villages, namely&#13;<br \/>\nMuara Sekalo Village and Teriti Village. Meanwhile, in Tuo Sumay Village,&#13;<br \/>\nSemambu Village and Suosuo Village, fires have decreased considerably, at around&#13;<br \/>\n2 hectares per year. This achievement earned the five villages awards from the&#13;<br \/>\nTebo Police Chief in 2020,&#8221; Hafiz added at the MoU signing event for the&#13;<br \/>\nDBA Program at the PT RAU office, Sumay District, Tebo Regency.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">The Head of Suosuo Village, Urista, expressed appreciation for the&#13;<br \/>\nsuccess of PT RAU&#8217;s Fire Free Village Program, and hoped the FFVP would&#13;<br \/>\ncontinue and that his fire-prone village will remain fire-free.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">&#8220;We thank the Manager of PT RAU for guiding us in preventing forest and&#13;<br \/>\nland fires. Thanks to the Fire Free Village Program, the number of fires in our&#13;<br \/>\nvillage have greatly reduced. We hope this program can continue to be in place&#13;<br \/>\nand grow, especially in terms of monitoring and establishing monitoring posts&#13;<br \/>\nin fire-prone locations, considering the size of the forest and potential fire-risk&#13;<br \/>\nlocations in our village,&#8221; said Urista.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p class=\"msg s event listitembody\">The MoU signing ceremony was attended by the Estate Manager of PT RAU,&#13;<br \/>\nBibit Sembiring; Asian Agri Fire Free Village Manager, Hafiz Hazalin Sinaga;&#13;<br \/>\nPMKS PT RAU Manager, H Purba; Public Relations of PT RAU, Bastari; Head of Tuo&#13;<br \/>\nSumay Village, Hazri; Teriti Village Head, Raden Sofli; Chief Des Suosuo,&#13;<br \/>\nUrista; Head of Muaro Sekalo Village, Suherman; Head of Semambu Village, Akmal;&#13;<br \/>\nFire Care Society, Bukhari, Raden Kamal, Saipul, Edi, Ade Chandra, and TNI, Kopda&#13;<br \/>\nJulhendri.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-22\/83126\/asian-agri-committed-to-preventing-forest-and-land-fires-in-the-midst-of-the-pandemic\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEBO, INDONESIA &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 22 June 2021 &#8211; In the midst of the Covid-19&#13; pandemic, Asian Agri remains committed to preventing forest and land fires in&#13; the villages around company&#8217;s operational areas. &#13; &#13; &#8220;In spite of the pandemic, Asian Agri business unit PT Rigunas Agri Utama&#13; (PT RAU), remains committed to implementing the Fire &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}