General Manager
Group Sustainability Wilmar International
Perpetua George
Perpetua George
General Manager
Group Sustainability Wilmar International
Perpetua “Pep” George, is the General Manager for Group Sustainability of Wilmar International Limited. She is responsible for driving and implementing the Group’s sustainability policy and programmes in its own operations as well as on third-party suppliers. Pep is also spearheading Walmart’s supply chain transformation initiative that guides suppliers – including smallholders – towards sustainable practices. Pep is actively involved in various multi-stakeholder initiatives that Wilmar is a part of, such as the Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the High Carbon Stock (HSC) Approach Executive Committee, the Tropical Forest Alliance and the Sabah Jurisdictional Approach Steering Committee. She has previously worked for Proforest, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Unilever.
Within her capacity at HUTAN -KOCP, Harjinder engages with Government agencies, NGOs, universities, funders and the oil palm sector mostly via RSPO. Harjinder represented HUTAN during the Malaysian Principles & Criteria’s Malaysian National Interpretation in 2013 and has been a member of the Biodiversity and High Conservation Values since 2014. She is also the NGO alternative for the Board of Governors at RSPO. She did her undergraduate degree in Parks & Recreation at Lincoln University in New Zealand. Prior to working with HUTAN – KOCP, Harjinder was a journalist based in Sabah before joining the NGOs fraternity with WWF-Malaysia.
Principal Sustainability Officer
Sime Darby Plantation Berhad
Lee Ming Enn
Lee Ming Enn
Principal Sustainability Officer
Sime Darby Plantation Berhad
Ming Enn is currently the Head of Physical Landscape and System Analytics of the Sime Darby Plantation Berhad(SDPB). His role involves identifying future trends, risks and issues around environment and biodiversity conservation, by engaging with various stakeholders and forums. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Science and an International Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Management. Ming Enn has more than 20 years of experience in Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSE) with more than 15 years in senior managerial position invarious industries, including Oil & Gas, Engineering & Construction, Manufacturing, Electrical, Power and Automation and FMCG.
Steering Committee Members
Southeast Asia Programme Director
Copenhagen Zoo
Dr Carl Traeholt
Dr Carl Traeholt
Southeast Asia Programme Director
Copenhagen Zoo
Carl completed his MSc in Ecology at Copenhagen University in 1989, and his PhD in population and behavioural ecology in 1993. He worked for bi-lateral and multi-lateral development organizations, primarily in SEAsia, concerning biodiversity conservation and organizational capacity building in the government and corporate sector. He helped set up the “Centre for Conservation Biology” at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, when he was also Fauna and Flora International’s Primate Programme Coordinator (2002-2004), and then Country Director (2004-2005). Carl authored numerous scientific publications, setup and co-edited the Journal of Cambodian Natural History until 2012, and the Journal of Indonesian Natural History (2012-ongoing). He was on the board of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Asia Chapter and Society for Conservation Biology, Asia Section. Since 2002, he has held his current position as Copenhagen Zoo’s senior research officer and SE Asia programme director. He also holds several active positions in IUCN’s Specialist Groups, co-chairs the EAZA Palm Oil Working Group and was appointed the PAC Member of the Malaysian Palm Oil Board.
Director of Sustainability,
PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya
Fakri Karim
Fakri Karim
Director of Sustainability,
PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya
Fakri Karim’s professional experience in international development has developed from programme management to policy and strategy development at the regional and international level, advocating for sustainable development in 15 countries in Asia, Pacific and Africa, in both the private sector and UN agencies. He has consistently achieved results in all of his positions, working across ministerial with both national and local/provincial government officials, rule of law institutions and parliament to improve policy, systems, procedures and human resource management in order to support improved governance and service delivery in more than 15 countries in Asia, Pacific and Africa. He has been a key member of UNCDF’s global advocacy and policy team on financing development at the sub-national level, and an influencer with LDCs and SIDS on the climate change and decentralized development finance agendas. Over the past 20 years, he has implemented programmes and projects for UNDP, UNHCR, UNCDF and HDC in post-disaster and conflict areas. Through those experiences with UN agencies, he has expertise in the UN agency programme and project management cycle (PRINCE 2), particularly on programme and project development, implementation, and monitoring and reporting based on UN and donor requirements. As part of his role in managing these programmes, he has successfully built partnerships with other international institutions and development partners at national, regional and global levels. He has successfully managed an USD 40 million global programme on climate adaptation financing, coordinated and managed a UNDP USD 25 million housing project, a USD 5 million Access to Justice project, a USD 14 million transitional governance project and advised UNHCR on a USD 40 million housing programme. He holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Indonesia, and has completed the UNDP/Harvard Business Publishing/IDEO ‘Leadership Development Pathway.’
Director
HUTAN - Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme
Marc Ancrenaz
Marc Ancrenaz
Director
HUTAN - Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme
Marc is the co-founder of French NGO Hutan, and run the Kinabatangan Orang-Utan Conservation Programme (KOCP), a community-based initiative located in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. He is a scientific adviser for the Sabah Wildlife Department. Marc is also the co-founder of “Borneo Futures Initiative”, a programme that aims to provide cutting-edge science to increase awareness, collaboration and understanding amongst decision makers, media, NGOs and the general public in Borneo. His expertise includes wildlife research, medicine, population management and policy formulation with 20 years of experience in wildlife range countries (Gabon, Congo, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Malaysia).
Founder and Executive Director
Orangutan Land Trust
Michelle Desilets
Michelle Desilets
Founder and Executive Director
Orangutan Land Trust
Michelle Desilets is the Founder and Executive Director of Orangutan Land Trust since 2009. She has been working in orangutan conservation for more than 20 years. Michelle previously founded the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK, to provide sustainable solutions for the long-term survival of orangutans in the wild. The Foundation’s work focuses on protecting critical forest areas of the orangutan habitat. She has served on numerous committees for the RSPO, such as the Biodiversity and HCV Working Group, New Plantings Procedures Working Group, Task force for Review of the P&C of the RSPO 2013 and 2017. She also represents Orangutan Land Trust as a member of the Palm Oil Innovation Group.
Principal Sustainability Officer
Sime Darby Plantation Berhad
Lee Ming Enn
Lee Ming Enn
Principal Sustainability Officer
Sime Darby Plantation Berhad
Ming Enn is currently the Head of Physical Landscape and System Analytics of the Sime Darby Plantation Berhad(SDPB). His role involves identifying future trends, risks and issues around environment and biodiversity conservation, by engaging with various stakeholders and forums. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Science and an International Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Management. Ming Enn has more than 20 years of experience in Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSE) with more than 15 years in senior managerial position invarious industries, including Oil & Gas, Engineering & Construction, Manufacturing, Electrical, Power and Automation and FMCG.
Director of Sustainable Supply Chain
PT Musim Mas Group
Olivier Tichit
Olivier Tichit
Director of Sustainable Supply Chain
PT Musim Mas Group
Olivier is currently the Director of Sustainable Supply Chain of Musim Mas Group. He oversees the implementation of Musim Mas Sustainability plan, for third-party suppliers, including independent smallholders. His role includes reviewing the Group’s sustainability policy and strategy, as well as working with the Group’s key customers to identify synergies for enhancing palm oil’s sustainability proposition in the world commodity sector.
A tropical agronomist by training, Olivier has worked in South-East Asia for the past twenty years. He was formerly the Commercial and Sustainability Director of the Indonesian subsidiaries of SIPEF, a Belgian plantations group. Prior to joining SIPEF, he was the Indonesia Country Manager for a major commodities merchant group, Ecom Agroindustrial, and spearheaded sustainable certifications for coffee smallholders.
Olivier is active in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA), and Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG).
Alternate Steering Committee Members
General Manager of Programmes and Projects
PT Musim Mas Group
Robert Nicholls
Robert Nicholls
General Manager of Programmes and Projects
PT Musim Mas Group
Robert Nicholls (Rob) is the General Manager of Programmes and Projects with the Musim Mas Group. Rob oversees the implementation and scaling-up of smallholder projects that link to the supply chain of the group operations, as well as that of third-party suppliers.
Rob also has a background in agricultural trainings and has been involved in setting up training programmes for different companies in the industry.
His portfolio includes the Indonesia Palm Oil Development for Smallholders programme (IPODS), aimed at enhancing independent smallholder access to global markets through addressing key challenges. IPODS is implemented in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, and is currently the largest smallholder project being run in Indonesia.
Rob is also spearheading the development and ground implementation of the Extension Services Programme (ESP) that links to third-party supply chains across identified priority provinces in Indonesia. Together, these parallel smallholder projects form a critical component of the Group’s wider strategy on supply chain engagement.
Prior to joining Musim Mas, Rob has been working in the palm oil industry for 18 years and is well versed with the plantations business in Indonesia. He has worked in several different locations in Kalimantan and Papua in estate operations and new development, and his last posting was to Papua New Guinea as Regional General Manager.
Sustainabilty Engagement
HUTAN - Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme (KOCP)
Harjinder Kler
Harjinder Kler
Sustainabilty Engagement
HUTAN - Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Programme (KOCP)
Within her capacity at HUTAN -KOCP, Harjinder engages with Government agencies, NGOs, universities, funders and the oil palm sector mostly via RSPO. Harjinder represented HUTAN during the Malaysian Principles & Criteria’s Malaysian National Interpretation in 2013 and has been a member of the Biodiversity and High Conservation Values since 2014. She is also the NGO alternative for the Board of Governors at RSPO. She did her undergraduate degree in Parks & Recreation at Lincoln University in New Zealand. Prior to working with HUTAN – KOCP, Harjinder was a journalist based in Sabah before joining the NGOs fraternity with WWF-Malaysia.
Ketapang Office Director
Aidenvironment Asia
Monalisa Pasaribu
Monalisa Pasaribu
Ketapang Office Director
Aidenvironment Asia
Monalisa N. Pasaribu has a background in Forest Management at Tanjungpura University.
During the height of illegal logging in West Kalimantan in the late ‘90s to early 2000, Monalisa got involved in wildlife poaching investigation, and consequently in the first orangutan population census in Gunung Palung National Park, Ketapang, West Kalimantan Indonesia.
Following this experience, she chose to inspire changes by getting involved in environmental education for children and adults.
Since 2011, she started to work extensively with local government agencies and the national park management body, connecting them with local communities and private companies to develop sustainable livelihood alternatives for people living next to the forest.
She is strong in local government engagement as well as in project management.
Group Head of Corporate Communications
PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya
Nunik Maharani Maulana
Nunik Maharani Maulana
Group Head of Corporate Communications
PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya
Ms Maharani joined PT Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk (ANJ) in 2016 to take up a role as Group Head of Corporate Communications. Since 2018 she has also served as Director of ANJ West Papua’s subsidiaries. Prior to joining ANJ, she was Director of IComm, a communication agency that she co-founded. She has also served as Director at Kiroyan Partners, a strategic communications consultancy, and worked in senior management of the corporate communications departments at multi national mining and oil and gas companies, including Rio Tinto Indonesia, Kaltim Prima Coal, Unocal Indonesia, Chevron IndoAsia, Newmont Pacific Nusantara and Ephindo.
General Manager
Group Sustainability Wilmar International
Perpetua George
Perpetua George
General Manager
Group Sustainability Wilmar International
Perpetua “Pep” George, is the General Manager for Group Sustainability of Wilmar International Limited. She is responsible for driving and implementing the Group’s sustainability policy and programmes in its own operations as well as on third-party suppliers. Pep is also spearheading Walmart’s supply chain transformation initiative that guides suppliers – including smallholders – towards sustainable practices. Pep is actively involved in various multi-stakeholder initiatives that Wilmar is a part of, such as the Round Table for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the High Carbon Stock (HSC) Approach Executive Committee, the Tropical Forest Alliance and the Sabah Jurisdictional Approach Steering Committee. She has previously worked for Proforest, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Unilever.
Partners
Aidenvironment
Aidenvironment
Aidenvironment is a values driven consultancy providing services and research in sustainable production and trade. It creates social, environmental and economic value seeking a fair distribution across stakeholders. Its combination of strategic capacity, extensive on the ground experience and transparent methods makes the organisation a leader in the field.
Aksenta
Aksenta
Aksenta is socio-enviro management consulting based in Jakarta. Founded in 2006, Aksenta has served and carried out hundreds of projects across Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua-New Guinea.
We focus on social management, environmental management, biodiversity, soil & water conservation and sustainability.
Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk (ANJ)
Austindo Nusantara Jaya Tbk (ANJ)
ANJ’s main business activities include the integrated planting and harvesting of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from palm plantations, processing of FFB into crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernels (PK), and the selling of both CPO and PK. The production and selling of CPO and PK are performed directly or through ANJ’s subsidiaries.
Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA)
Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA)
Based in Sabah, BORA cares for the last two living Sumatran rhinos in Malaysia. Tasked with preventing the extinction of the Sumatran rhinoceros, BORA works with the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research to apply advanced reproductive technology through removing the gametes and germ cells from living rhinos to try to produce Sumatran rhino embryos in the laboratory.
Bumitama Agri Ltd
Bumitama Agri Ltd
Bumitama Agri Ltd. is one of the leading producers of palm oil (PO) & palm kernel (PK), with oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Listed on the Singapore Exchange since 2012, Bumitama Agri Ltd.’s primary business activities are cultivating oil palm trees, as well as harvesting and processing fresh palm fruit bunches (FFB) into PO and PK, which we sell to refineries in Indonesia.
Bunge Loders Croklaan
Bunge Loders Croklaan
Bunge Loders Croklaan is a leading global producer and supplier of sustainable premium quality vegetable oils and fats for the food manufacturing industry.
Copenhagen Zoo
Copenhagen Zoo
Founded in 1859 by Niels Kjærbølling, Copenhagen Zoo is one of the oldest zoos in Europe and a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The Zoo maintains and promotes a number of European breeding programmes, which is a population management programme to promote breeding of endangered species. More than 2,000 specimens of about 250 species are exhibited on its 10-hectare grounds.
HUTAN is a French Non-Governmental Organisation established on the 15th of January 1996 in France by Dr. Isabelle Lackman, a primatologist with Dr. Marc Ancrenaz, a wildlife veterinarian. The primary aim of HUTAN is to study orang-utans in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.HUTAN has grown holistically to include working on other wildlife issues including the endemic Borneo Pygmy Elephants. HUTAN also works with local communities to address human-wildlife conflict as well as alternative livelihood. HUTAN team is composed of more than 50 highly skilled staff hailing from the Kinabatangan local community, working with immense dedication in close collaboration with an effective network of Sabahan partners including government agencies, Non-Governmental-Organisations and research institutions as well as private stakeholders.
Musim Mas
Musim Mas
Headquartered in Singapore, Musim Mas operates globally across the palm oil spectrum. Its business activities run the gamut of the palm oil supply chain: from managing oil palm plantations to refining crude palm oil and manufacturing value-added products. It also has a fleet of ship tankers and barges that enhances its logistical capability.
Orangutan Land Trust
Orangutan Land Trust
A UK-based NGO that focuses on conserving, protecting and restoring forests land where orangutans naturally exist or have existed before. Its main objective is to ensure that there are safe forest areas set aside for wildlife to flourish and form a healthy ecosystem. The OLT is supported by an advisory board consisting orangutan and forest conservation experts.
Sawit Kinabalu
Sawit Kinabalu
Sawit Kinabalu Sdn Bhd is a premier investment arm of the State Government in the oil palm industry. Our vision is to be a premier Sabah-based oil palm producer and property developer.
South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership
South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership
Established by the Royal Society in 1985, the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP) facilitates world-class scientific research that addresses the major environmental issues facing the tropics: plantation development, habitat restoration, and climate change.
SEARRP work in close collaboration with leading international universities and local partners to facilitate research by individual scientists and manage a suite of large-scale field experiments. SEARRP’s mission is to train and mentor the next generation of scientists and conservation leaders, and inform policy and best practice at local, regional and global levels.
Sime Darby Plantation
Sime Darby Plantation
Sime Darby is a Malaysian-based diversified multinational with operations in 25 countries, 4 territories, and a total workforce of more than 120,000 employees. The Group is involved in 5 core sectors, namely plantation, industrial equipment, motors, property and logistics.
The Alliance for Preservation of Forests
The Alliance for Preservation of Forests
The Alliance for the Preservation of Forests is a group of responsible manufacturers and distributors who are determined to put an end to the deforestation imported into Europe via their commodity supply chains, along with the corresponding social exclusion. The Alliance recognizes the benefits of collective action, which are greater than the sum of individual efforts on the parts of the businesses concerned, in encouraging all supply chains to become more sustainable, in cooperation with NGOs.
Wilmar International Ltd
Wilmar International Ltd
Wilmar International Ltd, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Singapore, is today Asia’s leading agribusiness group. Wilmar is ranked among the largest listed companies by market capitalisation on the Singapore Exchange.
