Stakeholder Engagement Programme in Asia

Caux Round TableMay 29th to June 1st, 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand

We held the Stakeholder Engagement Programme in Thailand which was commenced in 2016
with co-hosted by UNDP Asia-Pacific and supported by the Embassy of Japan in Thailand. There
were 31 participants comprising of five Japanese companies, International NGOs, Internationalorganisations and a government agent.
1. Day 1 in the morning

We visited the office of Labour Protection Network which provides protection and support ofvictims of human trafficking and activities for raising awareness situation of human trafficking
on the ground toward private sectors.
At the office, we had a chance to listen to the stories from the staff who are in charge of supporting
victims from Indonesia and Myanmar where human trafficking takes place as well as two victimsof human trafficking.
The LPN, which was established 12 years ago, pointed out the importance of the role of companies
in protecting labour rights. It has been advocating toward the government including collaborative
work with Thai embassies of neighbouring countries. The government promotes the activities inthis field and showed it by visiting LPN as the first NGO to visit. Additionally, LPN seeks for thecooperation with polices which is one of the key agencies in improving this issue. It addresses theimportance of lobbying as well.
In details, its activities include providing education to migrant workers, supporting selfempowerment by establishing around 10 learning centres in Bangkok. It has also pre-started callcentres accessible in four languages to receive various issues. LPN is keen to work in acollaborative way with companies for the next 5 years. For it, it considers expanding traceabilityof not only big companies but also their supply chains.
There were some cases of which victims are those coming not only from neighbouring countries
but also from the North eastern Thai. They were deceived to ride fishery boats at bus stops near
Bangkok.
It was emphasized how it was significant that each organisation works to realise sufficient
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2. Day 1 in the afternoon

From the afternoon of the first day, we learned from the expats and Thai companies at the UNDP
Asia-Pacific which is operating the project on Business and Human Rights.
(1) Opening Remarks: Ms Prakairattana Thontiravong, Commissioner, National Human Rights
Commission of Thailand (NHRCT)I am very pleased to know that Japan is prioritizing doing business with respecting humanrights. All of the issues which are related to stakeholders in the context of human rights such as
supply chain management, employment of foreign workers, child labour, labour condition,
sanitation, health and safety of employee are critical for all companies.
This seminar serves as a good opportunity for Japanese companies investing in Thailand topromote business as well as human rights including the responsibility for society and theenvironment. For stakeholders, this could be a chance to talk with companies in order to discuss
management respecting human rights. NHRCT considers it vital operating business in line withrespecting human rights. We would like to disseminate the idea of UN Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights, ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ through the collaboration among
the government, corporate and both domestic and foreign organisations. I expect this seminar
could be meaningful where each stakeholder can learn from each other and explore the direction
to be pursued.
(2) Opening Remarks: Mr Livio Sarandrea, UNDP Asia-PacificVarious events in relation to Business and Human Rights in Bangkok will take place for the next
two weeks. In Thailand, while the momentum accelerating the engagement of private sectors in
Business and Human Rights has been growing up, the challenges can be found. In this regard,
each actor needs to play a crucial role in developing the current circumstance, in particular, therole of NHRCT should be addressed.
(3) Ms Dana Graber Ladek, IOM
Migrant workers have contributed to the Thai economy which relies on export and is facing withthe ageing. At the same time, they are vulnerable to human trafficking and exploitation. The
transparency of the recruiting process is low which may result in huge debts of employees.
The protection of migrants and empowerment eventually leads the economic profit of companies.
To achieve it, it is required that companies take an initiative in raising awareness of employees
and suppliers, conducting mapping of all the suppliers, assessment of recruiting process, andCaux Round Table Japan
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providing relevant information before leaving a sending country and after arriving at a hostcountry, for which IOM supports.

Caux Round Table(4) Ms Prakairattana Thontiravong, Commissioner, National Human Rights Commission ofThailandAfter showing its commitment to UNGP at UN Human Right Committee, it has been promoting
engagement in it, for instance, through holding seminars to disseminate it. The prime ministerstressed its importance of implementing UNGP for sustainable business followed by the
declaration signed by relevant ministries such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justiceand Ministry of Commerce in addition to NHRI. We will distribute Human Rights Due Diligence
checklist for private sectors. As NHRI, it is crucial to be informed complaints so that we would
gain a better understanding of Business and Human Rights. We opened a new mediation centre
focusing on Business and Human Rights recently. We will continue promoting the dialogue among
different stakeholders.
(5) Mr Netithorn Praditsarn, Global Compact Network Thailand
We are aiming to top by ‘Race to the top’ meaning that we are promoting our engagement in
human rights, which is because human rights are business opportunities as well as reputationaland operational risk. It has been gradually required to conduct due diligence with regard to nonfinancial information in pursuing M&A. To make it happen, we require guideline which unfolds
this idea to actual operation level rather than a mere guideline and takes business mind into
consideration. Everyone knows ‘Supply chain management’; however, the point is how to conduct
it and case studies and capacity building are needed.
(6) Mr Nattawut Kasem, Environmental Justice Foundation
We aim at protecting the environment and human rights. Our activities include promoting
protecting the marine resource and eliminating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishery, andpromoting sustainable fishery management.
Our goal is to establish transparency and traceability. To achieve it, we demand companies todiminish human rights risk to improve exploitative work in Thai seafood sector where 800,000
are working through conducting research on the sea as well as work closely with the community
to be affected. A wide range of issues such as recruiting fee, overwork, health and safety, labourand break time, access to grievance mechanism, and lack of awareness of labour rights remain.
We are working on how to improve audit schemes; however, informed audits cannot let us know
the real situation.

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Human rights condition and activities on it were shared by multi stakeholders.
(7) Mr Livio Sarandrea, UNDP Asia-Pacific
It is promising that the movement toward Business and Human Rights will be accelerated in Asia.
However, how to tackle the existing issues such as how to deal with vulnerable rule of law anddefamation against human rights defenders is a problem. Thai government conducted thebaseline study for its National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights through working
collaboratively with the civil society for around one year. Last April, the UNWG invited by Thaigovernment proposed strengthening social and environmental impact assessment in large-scale
development projects, improving land grabbing issues in special economic zones, human rights
risks in large-scale development projects in foreign countries which Thai companies are involved
in, and forced labour and human rights of migrant workers in fisheries. Thailand is expected tolead Business and Human Rights in ASEAN.
(8) Mr Shubert L. Ciencia, OXFAMOXFAM has been working on Business and Human Rights, female in the agricultural sector,
sustainable and inclusive investment. While ASEAN is aiming at economic growth by 2020, there
are high risks in resource exploitation and slave labour; inequality has been expanded. Many
human rights violations in relation to agribusiness are reported. In particular, problems offemales in the agricultural industry are not likely to be visible, ignored, and serious. Sustainable
investment is called for, and the quality of foreign investment is paid attention. Responsible
finance for females is our focus as well. Large companies have to make an influence on their
supply chains. Promoting SDGs would be an entry point for it.
(9) Ms Maureen Harris, International Rivers
Our NGO is engaging in human rights issues taking place along rivers. The remediation forhuman rights violations caused by foreign investments is a significant issue. The Mekong Rivercherished by diverse ecology is regarded as a vital resource of livelihood from the perspective of
the environment, food security and sustainable agriculture; therefore, relocation of residence
makes a serious impact on communities. The campaign claiming for compensation against a dam
project by Thailand in Laos was conducted which complained lack of participation of affected
communities before signing a contract and transparency of investment. Companies should
conduct Human Rights Due Diligence which bears gender perspective in mind sufficiently. The
discussion with respect to the extraterritorial obligation in the region including Thailand needs
to be developed.
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(10) Ms Pornpen khongkachonkiet, Cross Cultural Foundation

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Although protecting human rights is not a crime, defamation cases against human rights activists
remain. Companies should be made understood that such activities just harm their reputation.
Communities simply request to get involved in the process of development; however,discrimination during the legal process is serious. One can be easily targeted for investigation by
police only because of criticizing policy. Companies also utilise a participant list of association as
the reason for defamation. The administrative procedure is unequal in Thailand since support
and participation of lawyers are not ensured.
(11) Mr Anders Lisborg, Issara InstituteWe aim at sustainable business through providing advice for companies. Companies have got torecognize that exploiting workers could become their own risk. Direct outreach to migrant
workers through helpline and rank companies by feedback from them are conducted. New
technology such as collecting data is also helpful for improving the situation. Issues we found at
workplaces include low wages, paid leave, long-hour work and sexual harassment. An audit issaid to be a tool to minimize risk; however, audit only tells us situation on spot, which is a concern.
(12) Ms Ayaka Matsuno, JICA
We are carrying out the project on human trafficking from a humanitarian perspective in relation
to human security promoted in ODA principles of the Japanese government. 91% of migrants in
Thailand are coming from the region, which shows the regional aspect of human trafficking. As
such, we cooperate with the other countries in the Mekong region. Our project adopts the victimcentred approach and supports victims to be re-integrated to society. Not only forced movement
but also voluntary migration over borders need to be paid attention. Thai has a feature of sending,transiting, and receiving country at the same time.
(13) Ms Kaori Kawarabayashi, UN-ACT
UN-ACT is focusing on human trafficking in the Mekong region in Asia as a part of UNDP. The
sectors where human trafficking is taking place are entertainment, labour centred industry suchas fishery and seafood, domestic workers, construction, agriculture, forced marriage and beggar.
There is a route of human trafficking from the Mekong region to East Asia, Southeast Asia,
Middle East, Europe, America and Africa. Some brokers who are involved in recruiting migrant
workers hesitate to make process transparent. More effective legislation and implementation forprotecting victims are demanded in Thai as a recipient country, for which cooperation with otherstakeholders is essential.
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(14) Ms Patchareeboon Sakulpitakphon, USAID

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We work on human trafficking in Thailand as well as the other Asian region. It is essential to get
different stakeholders such as governments, civil society and companies together so that activities
could be moved forward. The support for putting data into policies and implementing them isvital. It is impossible that only one stakeholder can improve the whole situation; therefore, having
a partnership and learning from each other are crucial. In the fishery sector, it is an issue of how
to communicate with workers who are on a ship and cannot be contacted by phones in improving
the situation. With regards to the grievance mechanism, working with NGOs is helpful.
(15) Mr Shigeru Yamato, Marimo 5
Our focus is on promoting health in workplaces for the sustainable society and growing business.
As mentioned in goal 3 and 8 in SDGs, health in workplaces is taken notice of internationally.
The percentage of non-infectious disease out of whole death percentage is more than 70% both inThailand and Japan. In particular, 8.2% of all is obesity in Thai. Because of awareness raising ofobesity, sugar tax was introduced in September 2017 the in Thailand. Obesity is a management
issue which costs economically in a sense that it causes an increase in medical cost as a direct
effect as well as a decrease of productivity as an indirect affect.
4. Day 3

On Day3, the participants exchanged their opinion with the experts including NGOs withreflecting what they had learned for the last two days.
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It became clear that Thai engagement had made an influence on neighbouring countries.

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Japanese companies operating in Thailand have to gain a better understanding of human--rights issues such as human trafficking.
Thai participants shared some activities of Thai Chambers of Commerce and suggested
establishing the network with Japanese companies.
Japanese companies based in Thailand have yet to be aware of human rights enough. The
number of workers who quitted their job due to power harassment is relatively high. How
to solve a shortage of workers and short-term business issue are recognized as urgent
matters. In this regard, we can learn from the activities of the Thai government for
SMEs. Additionally, Japanese companies could learn a lot from the discourse with respect
to the migrant.
The majority of employees who are working in the supply chains of Japanese companies
are migrant; therefore, it is significant to solve their human rights issues.

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Management policies of Japanese companies at the local level should include having a
constructive dialogue and building a relationship like family with employees, which
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disputes occur frequently in Japanese companies operating in Thailand, which damaged
the reputation of Japanese.
The participants agreed that headquarters/family companies need to enhance traceability
in the food industry such as shrimp or chicken where human trafficking are frequently
identified.
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Stakeholder Engagement Programme in Asia

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June 11th to 13th, 2018 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We held the Stakeholder Engagement Programme in Malaysia which was started last year. This
year, there were 34 participants including three Japanese companies, NGOs, internationalorganisations, and government agency.
1. Day 1

We had a dialogue with 6 small-scale palm oil farmers who are affiliated with MPOB (MalaysianPalm Oil Board) located in a one-hour distance from the Kuala Lumpur city. While RSPO is wellknown as an international palm oil certification, Malaysian government asks all palm oil farmers
regardless of their size to obtain MSPO which stands for Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil,
Malaysian own certification, by the end of 2020. MPOB is in charge of the support for
implementing MSPO through conducting research, providing support material and knowledge forfarmers. As of June 2018, around 60 per cent of the all farmers have held MSPO. Among thefarmers we had a dialogue, half of them got MSPO already.
Farmers pointed out the issues such as a shortage of successors along with the ageing of farmers
and the amount of wage to hire the youth. Due to their age, farmers found it hard to work on highpalm trees. In this case, they need to employ migrant workers such as Indonesian and
Bangladeshi.
The value of MSPO itself has yet to be recognised in the market and be returned to prices. MPOB
aims to share best practices and enhance the quality of agriculture.
Farmers also mentioned that whereas the price of fertilizers increased, the price of palm oil
decreased. Even if they attempted to increase their harvest, the rise in the cost of fertilizers makes
it difficult for them to gain enough income for saving. Long years of cultivation resulted indecreasing mineral in lands which makes farmers utilise fertilizer. As a result, it has become hard
to a sustain certain quality of palm oil. On the other hand, there are some new products such as
palm oil free from chemical fertilizer or produced by solar power generation.
2. Day 2
On the second day, the participants learned about human rights situation in Malaysia as well assome activities from experts including NGOs and international organisations at Hilton Kuala
Lumpur.
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Palm oil is refined through the following process: disinfection, threshing, digesting, highpressing, filtration, centrifuging, effluent, and transpiration of harvested palm by hightemperature. Since one of the features of is that it does not contain odd thing, fresh and nodamage, it is utilised in a wide range of products regardless of its edibility compared tosunflower, soybean and canon oil. Malaysian palm oil is the natural trans-fat alternative forfood manufacturers. Another advantage of palm oil is no GMO. In conclusion, we can say palm
oil is better for health, economy and environment than other oil.
(2) Mr Stephan Savi, Director of Global Outreach & Engagement, RSPO
The member of RSPO comprises more than 3800 including large companies and their supply
chains, spreading from the United States, Europe and China. We encourage SME to obtain acertification to enhance sustainability. Malaysia has received a bad reputation due to social issues
in the palm oil industry even though it is the second largest palm oil industry following Indonesia.
For instance, migrant workers from neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bangladesh, childlabour to meet the demand of companies and land grabbing have been criticised. The monitoring
scheme including grievance mechanism is required as implementing RSPO faces with somechallenges. We also provide training on human rights issues to member companies and holdworkshops to keep the quality of the social audit. The issues identified in each region is better tobe resolved in that region in line with international standard.
(3) Mr Paul Sinnappan, Palm Oil Community Development
Driven by my own experience of growing up in a palm oil plantation owned by a foreign company,
I have been engaged in activities to develop palm oil community for long years. At that time, many
children lost their lives by disease and injury whose family were deprived of their lands by privatecompanies. Since existing labour unions do not function well, it is necessary to have a neworganisation which can work more effectively. The alternative model of development which isbased on human rights is demanded. With respect to gender rights, we work on feminism,education on gender, and sexual harassment in family workplaces. The violation of a customary
right to land of indigenous people is an issue as well. We believe more effective policies which
could protect wages, safety and life of workers on the ground should be introduced.
(4) Mr Joseph Paul, Tenaganita
During the recruiting process, workers have to pay the expensive fee for brokers which results inhuge debts even when they begin working. Thus, there is no choice for workers other than keeping
working; as a result, they fall into forced labour. In relation to land rights, land grabbing, forced
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relocation and lack of livelihood exist. From the gender perspective, a physical burden in backing
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some scheme to tackle these issues. Companies sometimes do not fulfil their social responsibility
such as providing insurance for workers, undocumented workers in particular. Workers also need
to be aware of the fact that deducting from salary is a violation of human rights. We should
improve forced labour, human trafficking and various human rights violations caused by them.
The essential thing is that workers should be treated as a ‘human being’.
(5) Groupwork
The participants were divided into 5 groups to have a discussion on the issues pointed out in theprevious sessions. The overview of the comments made by each group is as follows:-

Salary scheme which reflects what workers work on needs to be discussed.

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Social activities employees can enjoy make them more satisfied with companies.

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It is crucial to establish a scheme which enhances traceability of value chain and enables-

employees to claim their right.
The result of the latest presidential election can be an accelerator in improving thecurrent situation.
While the direct purpose of companies is making a profit, all of the human rights should
be taken into consideration to make whole value chain sustainable.
It is hard to define ‘human rights’ as each person and country embraces it in a different
way.
Workers in plantations are normally male, which may cause sexual harassment or sexual
abuse.
Even in Malaysia, indigenous people in the west and east part of Java have different
issues.

-We need judges who can examine customary rights and recognise them.

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Although SDGs are too general, the most affected should be protected.

3. Day 3

On the final day, the participants had a discussion with Stephan from RSPO and Denison from
CSO Network.
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We need to comprehend historical background to gain a better understanding of landissues in Malaysia. The people in Sarawak and Saba which were incorporated after
Malaysia was built are not from Malay, believe different religion and set up uniquecommunities. Indigenous people were given rights under customary law. However, land
which is not clear whether it is utilized belongs to the state. States give permission tocompanies which ask for its utilization.
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3-The lifestyle of indigenous people is moving in every few years; however, this traditional
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used gangs, forced people resisting to relocate and conducted sexual abuse against female.
Even when people attempt to file a case to courts, indigenous people were alleged to be
Indonesian due to lack of ID like Malaysian nationals have.

-Some companies do not feel responsible for effect attributed to plantations.

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It causes a risk if we solve issues in a short-term. Civil society represented by NGO is

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required to play a role in supporting certain scheme which community desires rather thanjust showing the way of solving them. For instance, if we bring children to school todiminish child labour, workers need to work 2 or 3 hours more to meet the demand fromcompanies, which is an actual issue to be considered.
Since the issues in the palm oil industry are related to other social issues such as forest
protection, the approach consistent with international standard led by multi-stakeholders
including civil society and international NGO is vital. In fact, civil society at the grassroot
level has developed.
The protection of migrant workers is an issue in any sectors. It is significant to engage init going beyond merely ‘foreign workers’ in ASEAN.
The fact is that migrants and many of their children are stateless, which should beapproached by SDG aiming at the society where no one is left behind even thoughcountries do not ratify international conventions relevant to migrant workers.
Since non-contract workers work in a different place depending on a season, their children
often do not go to school. This sort of issue has been increasing among migrant workers inparticular. Companies should be accountable for workers who are even not employed
directly by them as supply chain issue.
The number of companies adopting RSPO proved that the certification scheme is useful ingetting access to the market. However, the difference between MSPO and RSPO waspointed out by the former Malaysian representative of Du Pont; MSPO, which has been
supported completely by the Malaysian government, and is widely active across Malaysia,
while RSPO is active in a limited area in Malaysia.
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Stakeholder Engagement Programme in Asia

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August 6th to 8th, 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia

We held the Stakeholder Engagement Programme in Indonesia for the first time since we started
this programme in 2016. It was attended by 35 participants including 2 Japanese companies,
NGOs and international organisations.
1.

Day1

We had a dialogue with palm oil farmers at Jambi, which is located at the central eastern coastof Sumatra, one-hour distance from Jakarta by plane. The participants included both RSPO andnon-RSPO certified farmers. The organisation represented the farmers for discussion withcompanies raised a question that even though farmers burden cost, the premium is not returned
to farmers. Additionally, farmers who have got certification pointed out that there was nodifference between before and after obtaining a certification in selling/buying price; therefore, an
incentive in certification remains quite low. What is worse is there is no platform where people
can raise their voices for this sort of issue. Moreover, in signing a contract with companies,
informed consent on contracts does not seem to be sufficient. They request Japanese companies
to utilise their leverage so that palm oil farmers could gain appropriate profit in dealing with
suppliers.
2. Day2
On Day2, the participants learned from expats such as NGOs and initiative organisations abouthuman rights situation and engagement in them in Indonesia at Pullman Jakarta Indonesia
Hotel.
(1) Mr Wahyu Wagiman, ELSAM
We are quite actively working on Business and Human Rights. Since 2011 when UNGP wasendorsed, the international activities have made an influence on domestic activities in Indonesia
as well. It resulted in evolving the discussion developed by mainly Komnas HAM along with
relevant ministries with respect to NAP. It is expected to introduce something which affects
eternally next year. As a member of civil society, ELSAM has been focusing on Business andHuman Rights in relation to palm oil and natural resource. We are getting engaged in raisingawareness and engagement of the local community. At this moment, we are advocating for human
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Caux Round Table(2) Mr Zenzi Suhadi, FoE Indonesia
Our interest has been in environmental issues since 1980. During the dam construction in 80’s,
people living there were forced to relocate. The children of these victims or grandson are notsufficiently cared. At this moment, a new dam is under construction in Sumatra, which affects
them again. Some of the projects were funded by Japan. In terms of land ownership, how humanrights violation looks like depends on its nature such as community, private ownership, forest, or
unique land. Even if complying with legislation, some practices are considered ineffective fromthe perspective of protecting human rights of people. Although having right-certificate gives
ownership under civil law, in some cases, conflict with unique right to utilise land of people incommunity occurs.
(3) Mr Nur Yasin, CITU
We are labour union comprised of 1.2 million members, among them we have 26,500 members
working in plantations. The role labour unions play is significant. According to the law, people
are entitled to establish a labour union with more than 10 members; however, when we look at
the situation on the ground, it seems hard to set up it. People are sometimes treated in a negative
way due to their activities for unions. In plantations, there are various types of workers such as
contracted workers, day-labour, invisible workers who do not sign any specific contract but simply
work there. Some companies still consider child labour as ‘help for family’ and a part of the culture.
Workers are not paid for extra work. Even when minimum wages are raised, the demand forquantity of harvest from companies is also increased; hence, the burden of workers will not be
mitigated. On the other hand, there are some companies who comply with labour rights.
(4) Mr Andriko Otang, TURC
We are advocating for labour rights. In Indonesia, human rights violations in garment and textile
sectors, in particular, decent work and freedom of association protected by the constitution arelikely to be infringed, which causes further labour rights issues such as modern slavery in supply
chains. Under the second tier of companies in garment and shoe industry, they tend to have someissues; however, some companies have started to check suppliers in line with their code of conduct,
which has gradually improved the situation. While the number of contracted workers is high, itmakes them difficult to claim their rights with evidence that companies amend some items suchas contract period by a pencil without notice or they do not provide a copy of contracts. Safety andsanitation as well as sexual or power harassment face some problems. Whereas the competencyof industries itself is developing, protection of human rights of workers is also vital.
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(5) Ms Rahmawati Retno W, TuK Indonesia

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We are aiming at sustainable finance by focusing on human rights and regional economic
activities. The more deforest is expanded, the more forest fire happens, which makes an influencein Malaysia and Singapore as well. If the diversity of plants is maintained, nature is 7 times
endurable than having only palm trees. This situation causes social issues along with threat
against people in communities and human rights violations. We conducted research on how thefund for palm oil industry was going on as it seemed to be deeply related to banks. OHCHR
recommended that financial sectors need to monitor development projects appropriately which
may cause environmental damage or deforest. We will make proposals to financial sectors andinvestors.
(6) Ms Srlyeti Pulu, Konsil LSM
We are the organisation which aims to promote Business and Human Rights, particularly among
SME. Out of the whole market, around 99% is SME in Indonesia. Since SME is a crucial actor inincreasing job opportunities, the government mentions it in Action Plan for Human Rights. Even
when human rights violation happens, it is unlikely to be highlighted as the scale is not so large.
Our long-term objective is to introduce and implement Business and Human Rights to SME andmake SME sustainable business with respecting human rights. The purpose in the medium andshort term is to have a strategy suggested by civil society aligned with SME. The obstacles forpromoting BHR in SME are lack of good practice and awareness of SME not involved in the supply
chain and difficulty in enacting legislation since this is a new area for SME.
(7) Global Compact Network Indonesia-

Ms Josephine Satyono

Our object is to resolve social issues through getting private sector engaged. We aim to eradicate
poverty through increasing income continuously not by donation or CSR. With regards toBusiness and Human Rights, we have established a working group comprised of multistakeholders to advance the discussion. Our strategy is not ‘Naming and Shaming’, but ‘Knowing
and Showing’. The extent of comprehension of companies is various. The point we have started toengage in is something feasible. We also work with other NGOs toward companies so as topromote palm oil industry respecting human rights.
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Mr Semerdanta Pusaka

The case about power harassment happened in a foreign shipbuilding company in April 2010
damaged the reputation of the company. This case was caused by various reasons including lackof understanding of the ground situation of those in management. Human Rights Impact
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Assessment which reflects ethnic and religious diversity in Indonesia is required. How tostrengthen whistleblower scheme needs to be argued.

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We are engaged in human rights issues in fishery including the direct engagement with the
Minister of Fishery Management. Human rights violations occurred in eastern Indonesia
broadcasted by AP in 2014 triggered the engagement of the government. On a fishery boat, humanrights violations such as physical abuse, child labour and sexual harassment were prevalent.
Under the newly enacted decree, all of the fishery companies are obliged to introduce humanrights policy, conduct human rights due diligence, and set up a whistleblower mechanism. In acase that a company can not pass an audit, its authorization may be cancelled or sustained. In
this way, we are working collaboratively with the government as well as private sectors.
(9) Timer Manurung, AURIGA
Our focus is on human rights issues in the palm oil industry. We consider it is not necessary to
deforest a primaeval forest for producing papers. We asked for the government to re-conduct
research on the width of palm oil plantations after finding out that the number published by thegovernment is different from the one we have according to our research. We are collecting data ofsmall-scale palm oil farms by making aerial photos by a drone into a map. Our aim is that farmers
are given appropriate support through confirming location and ownership.
(10) Questionnaire-

To the participating companies, some questions such as to what extent they identify their
supplies, and how they react in local countries if human rights violations are found out.
The attendants exchanged their views on elements to be considered in making a decisionin terms of human rights violation cases filed to courts in particular.
The participants from the civil society pointed out that when workers are paid less thanminimum wages, there is no way other than demonstration. Even if they report them tothe administration, they only get insufficient treatment, which is a part of the reasons fora demonstration.

3. Day 3

On the final day, the participants from Japan wrapped up the fieldwork as well as the workshop
at Pullman Jakarta Indonesia Hotel followed by the discussion on how they could deal with issues
raised as a company. The attendants emphasized the cases farmers get a certification is notreflected in sales prices revealed through the field work. They also stressed human rights
violations of day labour working in plantations shared at the workshop should be responded in
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