2023 January

PT GGP Solid Pack & Concentrate Shipment Target Achievement Ceremony 2022

For achieving the 2022 Solid Pack & Concentrate Shipment target, PT Great Giant Pineapple (GGP) held a ceremony with PT Pelabuhan Indonesia (Pelindo) Regional 2 Panjang on Thursday.

A total of 15,215 Full Container Load (FCL) owned by PT GGP with various processed Lampung products, especially pineapples, have been distributed through the Panjang Regional Port 2 with destinations to various continents around the world, from Asia, Europe, Africa to the Americas.

The activity which was attended directly by the General Manager of Pelindo Regional 2 Panjang Adi Sugiri accompanied by the Area Manager of PT IPC Container Terminal Long Area Budi Daryono together with the Director of Production of PT GGP Wayan Ardana accompanied by the Director of Sales and Marketing Benhard Wewengkang.

In his remarks the General Manager of Pelindo Regional 2 Panjang expressed his appreciation to PT Great Giant Pineapple for the achievements achieved in 2022 for having distributed 15,215 FCL to various shipping destinations both to inter-island and export to various countries.

This has also made PT GGP a strategic partner because of its significant contribution to the company from year to year.
“In the future the collaboration between Pelindo Regional 2 Panjang and PT Great Giant Pineapple can be established for various other port services, namely warehousing services, stacking services and other services. And we are committed to always innovating in providing the best service for our service users so that this can have a better impact on the economy of Lampung Province,” said Adi.

On the same occasion the Director of Sales and Marketing of PT GGP also expressed his appreciation to Pelindo Regional 2 Panjang for providing support by providing optimal service to its service users based on a 24/7 operational system and supported by modern digitalization.

This is what makes it easier for service users to carry out port activities so that service users are able to realize the target of loading and unloading activities at the Panjang Regional Port 2.

With this achievement, we hope that the synergy between service users and service providers can be developed in other forms of cooperation that will have an impact on the economy of Lampung Province. This activity was followed by a field visit to the pier area E of Regional Port 2 Panjang and ended with a group photo with the participants present

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Circolearn 2022: Education on Sustainability and Circular Economy

Great Giant Foods (GGF) Executives teach at SMA Negeri 5 Bandung, Jalan Belitung, Bandung City, Friday, December 16 2022. This activity is part of the Circolearn program, which is a teaching practitioner program where GGF Senior Executives go directly to schools to convey teaching materials related to Sustainability and Circular Economy to students.

Each of GGF’s business units has been formed with a sustainable integrated farming model that applies 3 main principles of circular economy: Minimize Waste, Maintain The Products and Materials Used, and Regeneration of Natural System. GGF’s business model prioritizes the use of waste and residual production materials to be reused and processed into Value Added Products.

In the first Cicrolearn session this time, the GGF Senior Executive presented material with fun learning elements that were appropriate for the participants, namely grade 1 high school students. Various games are given such as quizzes which educate students about sustainable choices in their daily activities.

At the end of the event, the Sunpride and Duta booths were present to share a series of fruits such as Cavendish Banana and Crystal Guava which were paired with Duta Pineapple & Passion Fruit Juice. Each student also brought home a souvenir in the form of a notebook made from recycled paper

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GGF Wins 2 Tempo Circular Economy Award 2022

Great Giant Foods is one of the five big companies that received an award in the 2022 Tempo Circular Economy Award. For the initiation of the Circular Food Estate and Waste to Energy programs, GGF won 2 awards. As the Head of Sustainability, Arief Fatullah, was present to receive the award.

The Tempo Circular Economy Award 2022 is an event to give awards to companies that apply circular economy principles in their business activities. Indonesia is currently carrying out a circular economy development that focuses on several sectors as an effort to help save the environment, reduce waste, and efficiency of existing resources.

This award was held for the first time at the end of 2022. However, Director of Tempo Media Group, Arif Zulkifli said that this program would continue to be carried out in the following years.

“We will develop the Tempo Circular Economy Award for the following years. In the future there will be other categories from different industries. Tempo will also run a circular economy from time to time,” said Arif Zulklifi when giving a speech at the 2022 Tempo Circular Economy Award at the Tempo Building, Tuesday, December 20, 2022.

The main purpose of this award is to give appreciation to those who have taken valuable initiatives in implementing practices that are in line with the circular economy.

This award is important because the initiators who play a role in the circular economy appear in the midst of the majority of industries or organizations that still carry out their business activities in a linear manner.

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Sunpride 27 Years in Indonesia: Advancing Indonesian Fruit Agriculture

The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) in 2021 reported that food waste, alias food waste, in Indonesia over the past two decades has reached 115 to 184 kilograms per capita annually.

The food sector that experiences the most food chain wastage is fruit and vegetables. In fact, in the Asia-Pacific region, nearly half of fruits and vegetables are wasted or lost before they reach consumers.

Bappenas also reports that, the economy due to loss and wastage of food ranges from IDR 213 trillion to IDR 551 trillion per year. This amount is equivalent to 4-5 percent of Indonesia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is one of the concerns of the CEO of Fresh Fruit and GTM, Cindyanto Kristian.

“Indonesia still has a lot of food waste, for example fruit. The fruit that is planted after the harvest is not sold well and is of good quality,” said Cindy at the 27th anniversary of Sunpride at the Pakubuwono Hotel, Jakarta, Thursday (22/12).

For this reason, Sunpride seeks to create a fresh fruit ecosystem in Indonesia. The fresh fruit ecosystem that is the focus of Sunpride aims to maximize fruit production from farmers.

The goal is to reduce food waste. This ecosystem can also ensure that the quality of the harvested fruits is well preserved to the consumer’s table.

With a commitment to a sustainable circular economy, Sunpride works closely with the government and farmers. locally to realize the ecosystem.

“From one banana tree, we cannot harvest and eat all of the fruit. So, how can we make one banana tree, even though we can’t use all of it, it can be useful and nothing is wasted. That is one of our commitments in the circular economy,” said Cindy.
Apart from the high record of food waste, the irony of fruit farmers in Indonesia also appears during the main harvest.
“In developed countries, during the main harvest the farmers smile happily. However, in Indonesia, farmers are crying because the price has fallen and the fruit is not sold, which results in food waste,” said Cindy.

Sunpride’s solution for this is to calculate product capacity and develop a supply chain from farmers to markets. This includes the type of packing, the type of carrier transportation, and the time of harvest.

In addition, Sunpride is also currently developing Sunpride blockchain traceability technology for some of their flagship products.

With blockchain traceability, Sunpride can determine the condition of the fruit at every stage, from the farmer to the store, thereby maintaining the quality of the fruit delivered.

To help improve the village to national economy, Sunpride continues to develop its partnerships with local fruit farmers in partnerships.

“There are three forms of our collaboration to improve the fresh fruit ecosystem in Indonesia,” said Jane Fransisca, CEO of Farmers Empowerment & Partnership.

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Deputy Regent of North Lampung Inaugurates the UMKM Elmuna Mitra GGP Cavendish Chip Production House

Representatives of PT Great Giant Pineapple (PT GGP) were also present accompanying the Deputy Regent of North Lampung (Lampura) Ardian Saputra at the inauguration and handover of the Horticulture Post-Harvest production house building in Bumi Restu Village, Abung Surakarta District, North Lampung Regency, Tuesday (13/13/2019) 12).

This production house is devoted to the production of banana chips which will be managed by the local village Glamas Sejahtera farmer group which is under the auspices of PT GGP.

“Processed cavendish banana chips produced by MSME Elmuna have been part of PT GGP’s support,” explained MSME Chairperson Elmuna Tri Misrati during a dialogue with the Deputy Regent of Lampura Aldian Saputra.

Aldian Saputra really appreciates the construction of the MSME Elmuna banana chip processing house. According to him, this building is considered very useful for farmer groups in managing crops to become quality MSME products.

“Hopefully this can continue to be useful for a better production process and produce quality products that are acceptable to the market,” said Aldian.

The production house is equipped with post-harvest processing equipment for horticultural commodities. With the existing facilities, it is hoped that it can develop other local products while also being able to provide added value to farmers.

“The existence of this production house can reduce the damage to agricultural products, and farmers can get higher added value because the handling of the production process is better starting from handling raw materials, washing, grading, sorting, heating at high temperatures, packaging and storage are getting better,” said Tri Misrati.

“Previously raw materials were easily damaged during storage, especially for the fruit and vegetable group, causing the sales results of these agricultural products to not be optimal,” said the head of this MSME.

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