Press Release

On the second day of Nutrition Packets Distribution End of 2013 from PTBA, a total of 1,488 nutrition packets was distributed to three villages in Lawang Kidul Subdistrict, which were Tanjung Enim Selatan Village, Keban Agung Village, and Darmo Village. On the same day, the nutrition packets were distributed to four villages in Tanjung Agung Subdistrict, which were Pulau Panggung Village, Tanjung Lalang Village, Penyandingan Village, and Seloman Village. The distribution was held in the village hall or local mosque.

The event which organized as manifestation of corporate social responsibility and concern of PTBA to societies, especially the low-income societies living around the first ring of the company, was a series of nutrition packets distribution at the end of 2013 that officially launched by the President Director of PTBA, Milawarma, in Jami Mosque a day earlier. The distribution to low-income societies was held in early 2014 (January 1-4, 2014).

For the event, PTBA has set up 6,000 nutrition packets worth a total of Rp 1,566 billion. Each nutrition packet containing 10 kilograms of rice, 10 packs of instant noodles, 1 kilogram of granulated sugar, 1 liter of vegetable oil, and 1 can of sweetened condensed milk. The value of each were Rp 161,000, added with money of Rp 100,000, bringing the total value to one nutrition packets into Rp 261,000.

In order to ensure that the target was proper, the nutrition packets were distributed to 5,779 person or head of households who were eligible to receive based on the results of social mapping data and by coordinating the teamwork of Community Development Officer (CDO) and Chairman of RT and RW in respective working area through the coupon distribution by door to door. People who have received a coupon could come to nutrition packets distribution places that had been determined  and exchange the coupon with the nutrition packets prepared. Meanwhile, 221 other nutrition packets were distributed to orphanages and boarding schools, the details are: 2 places in Lahat Town, 2 places in Muara Enim Town, and 3 places in Lawang Kidul Subdistrict.