PT Tolan Tiga Indonesia (SIPEF Group) Sumatra, INDONESIA

Emplacement Tukinem (Female Workers)
• There are around 80 households reside in the emplacement, all of them are estate workers
• One house inhabit by one family only, not share with other different family
• Women groups set up recently, most of female workers is members. Main activities are
socialization on health, female health, emplacement cleanness, etc.
• The last social women group meeting was held on 20 February 2010, mostly discussing about
emplacement matters
• Happy to live in emplacement, since water is free, subsidised electricity, close to market and other
public facilities such as schools
• Domestic waste segregated into organic and inorganic waste, for further regular collection twice a
week for disposal in estate’ land fill
• Female workers are fully paid during 1.5 months prior and following birth. Women who are
pregnant of breastfeeding not allowed to work in dangerous environment. It is PTT policy not to
assigned female pregnant or breast feeding workers as sprayers, and will be transferred to other
duties once confirmed pregnant by the company doctor.
Monday, 15 March 2010 Bukit Meraja Village
Sugirin (Village Head) and two
other
• He is penghulu nagari (village head) of Bukit Meraja village, accompanied by his father who is
former village head
• Good and close relationship between company and community, several community development
programme carried out by company in the village
• The village around estate, are all old village, mostly inhabit by “kuli kontrak—contract workers”
originated from Java, bring in during Dutch era, intended as estate labour
• As such, all of them are not indigenous people, there is not customary land around the estate
• So far, there was no land dispute or land claim to estate land. If any, it must have been influenced
by outsiders who hold fake land title.
• Total population in 2010 are 1,817 persons and 427 households
• Most of people work as farmers, mainly as paddy field farmer.
• Considering the average land holding in the village is very small, only around 0.25 ha per
household, lot of villagers work in the plantation
• Paddy harvested twice a year, relatively good yield since per ha yield around 7 tons—in comparable
to the most fertile land in Java
• Per ha paddy field price now reaching 100 million rupiah
• Beside that they also nurturing livestock (cows) which is graze freely inside the plantation. It is
becoming a problems because possibly spreading ganoderma
• The agreed solution between company and villagers is cow allowed to be graze between 0200 pm
to 0600 pm, other times must be cage
• However, several villagers still grazing in the night
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 Bukit Meraja Estate Office
Supiran, Sugiat, Jamin Purba, R.
Sinaga, Purwanto (Contractors and
Supplier)