39 Companies Awarded Gold PROPER in Environmental PROPER Awards
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry awarded the Green Leadership PROPER to nine company leaders and the PROPER Gold to 39 companies during the Environmental PROPER Awards ceremony.
“This year, the implementation of PROPER is somewhat different from previous years. In previous years, PROPER was fully carried out by the Ministry of Environment at that time. Therefore, this year and in the coming years, we will implement PROPER as a mandate or basis from Article 70 regarding our obligation to supervise environmental management for all business units in the country,” said Environment Minister/Head of the Environmental Control Agency Hanif Faisol Nurofiq.
He stated this at the Environmental PROPER Awards in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The Environmental PROPER Awards is a performance assessment programme aimed at improving corporate compliance with environmental management and encouraging companies to be more adherent to environmental regulations.
According to him, at least 74,000 companies are required to have Environmental Management Efforts and Environmental Monitoring Efforts documents (UKL-UPL) as well as Environmental Impact Assessments (AMDAL).
However, the number of companies selected for the Environmental PROPER Awards this year only reached 5,476 companies.
“However, we were only able to handle 5,400 companies with environmental compliance rankings. This means it has not yet reached 10 percent of all business units in Indonesia,” said Hanif Faisol Nurofiq.
“There has been an increase in participants from last year,” said Hanif Faisol Nurofiq.
According to him, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry consistently uses the PROPER assessment indicators to encourage environmental compliance among companies in Indonesia.
In this awarding event, there were 243 companies that received the PROPER Green award, nine company leaders received the Green Leadership PROPER, and 39 companies received the PROPER Gold award.
PROPER is a performance programme of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry that has been running for three decades, starting in 1995.