Educational Enhancement

a. Institute for Educational Potential Development of Adaro Partners (LP3AP)

Prior to 2005, Adaro recognized that assistance to the local education system needed to become a priority for its CSR program if its goal of supporting sustainable development to local communities was to be successful. To achieve these development targets the Company established the Institute for Educational Potential Development of Adaro Partners, to develop educational programs that would assist the local educational authorities in enhancing proper formal education within the Community, develop local resources, improve the management of educational institutions and encourage better educational facilities that give stronger support to the learning process.

The Institute was established on 13 October 2005, initially covering 3 regencies and 2 provinces: Tabalong Regency and Balangan (South Kalimantan) and East Barito Regency (Central Kalimantan). Since then a number of projects have been implemented that have already provided positive results to educational enhancement in these communities.

Programs under the Institute:

Teacher Training

Adaro conducts teacher training through a number of training sessions and workshops to enhance teachers’ quality to provide better formal education. The programs are dedicated to not only the teachers, but also the principals and supervisors.

As at the end of 2009, the number of teachers, principals and supervisors participating in the training
program comprised of the following:

Training Participants (accumulative)	2006	2007	2008	2009
Teachers, principals, supervisors	527	1,142	3,871	4,359

To date the teacher training program has been conducted in three regencies: Tabalong, Balangan, and East Barito with 181 participating schools, consisting of 142 in Tabalong Regency, 22 in Balangan Regency and 13 in East Barito Regency.

Model School Program

The Institute also has another excellent program, the Model Schools program comprising three elementary schools, three middle schools and two high schools within Tabalong Regency (South Kalimantan) and East Barito Regency (Central Kalimantan) which are expected to be a reference for educational quality enhancement within the area of Adaro’s operational site. The teachers of these schools have passed the Institute’s teacher training and workshop programs aimed at enhancing the knowledge and learning process.

This Program commenced in 2009 and is designed to set the standard for the quality of education by involving school teachers, principals, students, and culture. The model schools are equipped with School Information Management System that serves as the benchmark to enhance the quality of model schools in the aspects of educational quality, teaching/learning process, and school management and a target of 2012 has been set for the schools to become a reference for educational quality enhancement in Tabalong and East Barito regencies and models for other schools in the region.

Adaro aspires to encourage the spirit of learning and interest in reading among students and the community, and has developed a fleet of mobile libraries. On National Education Day, May 2, 2006, Adaro launched three vans that had been transformed into mobile libraries, which travel around Balangan, Tabalong and East Barito regencies. Adaro keeps adding to the book collection for these mobile libraries to keep up with the demand of the communities, and there are now more than 15,698 copies and 4,229 titles.

The book collection consists of textbooks, science books, children’s books, and books for specific skills such as rubber plantation, agriculture, and fishery. With these mobile libraries, Adaro hopes to keep stimulating the interest in reading in the communities and to motivate them to have a thirst of knowledge and desire to expand their perspectives.

 

Adaro is committed to education through the model school programs.

b. Scholarships

Besides the educational programs conducted by the Education Institute, Adaro also provides scholarship for students from elementary school to university to support the government’s program to enhance human resources quality and motivate students to make better achievements.

Adaro started the scholarship program for students of elementary/middle school/high school and university in 2000 and is now available for students in Tabalong, Balangan, East Barito, South Barito and Barito Kuala regencies. in South Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan provinces.

In 2009 Adaro disbursed scholarships totaling Rp1.15 billion to 8,707 elementary, middle school, high school, and university students in these Regencies.

 

Adaro’s GM of Operations, Priyadi, distributes scholarship to elementary students.