Decent Rural Living Initiative (DRLI) Multi-stakeholder Workshop Summary Outputs

July 2-3, 2018 – Jakarta

This document provides:

A summary of the areas that have been identified for pre-competitive collaboration.
An outline of recommended nest steps within those areas as identified by those with the workshop.

Decent Rural Living Initiative Summary
Cargill, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), Musim Mas, Sime Darby Plantations and Wilmar came together with the agreement to identify pre-competitive collaborative ways to address existing barriers to empower and increase the agency of the palm worker. Forum for the Future’s role is to enable actionable yet ambitious solutions through bringing different actors across the system together, using a systems and futures lens.

Staged process of consultation decided upon to commitments.
1) In response to: Promoting the awareness of rights amongst workers through:

Developing a sectoral jurisdictional CBA template with customised opt-in components
Developing an orientation open-source programme on what it means to be a palm employee
Improving ICT connectivity for palm oil workers by piloting high-speed internet in South Sumatra

2) Empowering women through data collection and consolidation of best practices

Examples include obtaining data on the breakdown of the 5 companies’ workforce in terms of gender

(casual/perm workers) and qualitative, ethnographic data around the needs of women

The data collated is key to help us to prioritise 1-2 areas from the range of ideas discussed (e.g. contract innovation for casual workers, pilots for alternative livelihoods,

The precompetitive areas for collaboration identified during the Multi-Stakeholder Workshop will now be discussed within each company, with a view to announce a formal commitment by and agreed upon date. This is recommended by end of September.

Our guiding principles

Go ‘beyond compliance’ in our ambition, and to demonstrate measurable impact
Be solutions-oriented in our use of language and the outcomes we generate
Consider the future-context when considering any challenges or solutions
Engage diverse points of view – beyond NGOs or companies alone
Be thoughtful, but also fleet of foot, g. we need to move at pace, but not without compromising

what will create real impact

Be people-centred and worker-centric in our solutions
Be development positive and in alignment with the SDGs

ATTENDANCE

Confirmed Stakeholders

APINDO Harjono
CIFOR Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
CNV Amalia Falah Alam
ICCO Kiswara Prihandini and Esti Nuringdyah
HRWG Rafendi Djamin
ILO Yunirwan Gah

Growers

Cargill – Colin Lee, Nasuha Thaha
LINKS Feybe Lumuru
Oxfam Adi Pratama
DWWG Chris Wangkay
RSPO Imam Marzuq
Sawit Watch Zidane Parsaoran
UNICEF Ann Thomas
GAR – Anita Neville, Melissa Yeoh, Absa Pradista, Pak Supramono
Musim Mas – Carolyn Lim, Widya Ng
Sime Darby – Rashyid Redza, Izlin Ismail, Mohamad Pirabaharan, Elly Mahesa Jenar
Wilmar – Perpetua George, Sandra, Yuli, Memed