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1 journey of collective action to build better indonesia activities report 2016

2 JANUARY - FEBRUARY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT UPDATE In the beginning of 2016, IBL organized two ToT (Training of Trainers) Passport to Success in two cities in Indonesia; Bekasi and Batam. Both ToT were following the success of the rst ToT in Karawang that was organized in the past The objective of ToT Passport to Success is to prepare the participants especially the teachers, to be the trainers of Passport to Success Life Skills Training. BEKASI 16 9 teachers senior high school Batam 20 7 teachers senior high school

3 STAKEHOLDER YES PROGRAM MEETING In February , IBL held Stakeholder YES Program Meeting at IBL of ce. This meeting was attended by around 30 participants, consisted of the mentors and IBL staffs. Pak Heru Prasetyo as IBL Chairman delivered his keynote speech. In his speech, he explained the history of Youth Entrepreneurship program and how IBL is currently strengthening its main pillars; Business Ethics, Youth Empowerment, and Environment.

4 MARCH - APRIL LIFE SKILL TRAINING IN BATAM IBL conducted life skill training for 10 days on 10-21March 2016 at SMKN 1 Batam 61students FGD on Human Resource Development On 16 April 2016, IBL held Human Resource Development (HRD) Forum themed "Effective recruitment to nd reliable h u m a n r e s o u r c e ". T h e f o r u m d i s c u s s e d t h e Implementation of recruitment and selection process of employees by companies which is a very important task.

5 skilled youth program Skilled Youth Program is a youth empowerment program supported by Citibank Foundation and Citi Peka. The main purpose of this program is to develop and empower 250 youths from low-income families ages in the area of Bekasi, Cikarang, and Karawang. Skilled Youth Program has two main work areas, i) Skilled Youth Employability and ii) Skilled Youth Entrepreneurship. Through these two work areas, youths as bene ciaries will be provided by options to increase their capacities in order to improve their chance of employment or to pursue entrepreneurial career through provision of business skills.

6 raising awareness and capacity building LOKAKARYA NASIONAL RUMAH BERSAMA CSR On innovative dialogue sessions at the workshop, Executive Director of Indonesia Business Links, Yanti Triwadiantini conveyed understanding of partnership. "The real partnership is a relationship which has running together, creating mutual bene t, and the risk also covered together", She said. one-day training partnership batch v As part of IBL commitment to actively build partnership among private sector, government, and NGOs to achieve sustainable development, we organized Partnership Training Batch 5 in March 17th Following the success of the previous batches, we had 25 participants from various background such as corporate, NGOs, government, and also academicians. This one day training was held in Sofyan Hotel Jakarta. With the spirit of Managing Multi-secto partnership, this training aimed to give a comprehensive knowledge about the importance of partnership and how to manage its sustainability.

7 may - june HRD Workshop: How to Create Good Employee To continue the success story of HRD Workshop I on April 16th 2016, IBL organized HRD Workshop II on June 22nd 2016 in Hotel Horison Bekasi. This workshop was attended by 35 participants from various backgrounds especially HRD representatives from companies, government of cials from Bappenas and Disnaker, and also representatives from BKK SMK in Bekasi. The workshop aimed to indentify the ideal criteria of good employee for industry sector, including the challenges in building young people's character to be good employee. 41 students Job Counseling Workshop SMAN 1 Bekasi Job Counseling was held on May 10th 2016, at SMKN 1 Bekasi, West Java. This event was attended by 41 participants of life-skill training (man and woman), also with 2 teachers from school.

8 MUDA TERAMPIL BERUSAHA Muda Terampil Berusaha, a program funded by Accenture which aims to create youth entrepreneur in Karawang. This program in line with local government policy that encourage economic development in Karawang through entrepreneurship. Moreover, youth in Karawang prefer to work at industrial sector which in fact are able to offer limited seats.the result is increasing number of unemployed youth due to the inbalancement between supply and demand of employee.

9 JULY - AUGUST YOUTH WEEK Indonesia Businees Links conducted multisector forum as a closure for Youth Empowerment, held on Friday, 29th July 2016 at Hotel Harris, Bekasi. The event aimed to formulate collective action in overcome youth unemployment issue in Bekasi, where the result of the forum will give positive effect for all parties. 77 paticipants

10 Left to right: Mr Heru Prasetyo, Chairman Board of Patron Indonesia Business Links, Prof. Dr. Bambang Brodjonegoro, Chief of Ministry of National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), and Mr Batara Sianturi, CEO Citi Indonesia Program Closure: SKILLED YOUTH By the end of the program, 172 youth got job instead of 130 youth targeted. Also,102 youth attended the entrepreneurships Awareness and Preparedness Workshop as well as Entrepreneurship Training. They were also equipped with basic knowledge and skill to design business plan. About 34 youth showing continuous commitment to be young entrepreneurs. 172 youth got job 102 youth attended entrepreneurship workshop 34 youth continuous commitment to be young entrepreneur

11 raising awareness youth empowerment on radio talkshow On Tuesday July 26th 2016, IBL Collaboration with Citi Indonesia talked about Youth Empowerment in Indonesia at radio Smart FM The speakers are Elvera Makki as Head of Country Corporate Affairs of Citi Indonesia, Mohamad Fahmi as the Executive Director of IBL, and also Mr Maliki as Director of Labor and Employment Creation The Ministry of National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas). As the Moderator talkshow is Yanti Triwadiantini, Sustainability Adviser Indonesia Business Links.These talkshows discussed about the importance of youth empowerment program in Indonesia regarding the fact that one third of our population consists of young people. NEXT generation program With support from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation (JPMF), the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and Indonesia Business Links (IBL) will provide job skills and IT technical training in Indonesia to IT students from selected colleges in the greater Jakarta area. The primary goal of this 18-month project is to improve the employability and workforce entry outcomes of program bene ciaries. The secondary objective of the program is to equip the colleges' career centers' to respond to real-time needs in the job market.

12 September - october Recorded throughout , there are ve batches consist of 179 peoples participated in the training who come from various background such as private sector, government, civil society organization, academic, and individual. For strengthening network th among the alumni of training partnership, on September , IBL has initiated to conduct "Temu Alumni Training Partnership: Sharing and Learning More", which aimed to share, prepare and identify candidates who want to be partnership trainer for development.

13 MULTI-STAKEHOLDERS DIALOGUE WALKING THE TALK: PROMOTING ACCOUNTABLE BUSINESS THROUGH ADVANCEMENT OF UNGPs IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIA On September 23rd 2016, they conducted Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Knowledge Sharing and Recent Updates on UNGPs: Indonesia and Global. The Dialogue featured by Ms. Rachel Davis (Former Legal Adviser to UN Special Representative o n B u s i n e s s & H u m a n R i g h t s, P r o f. J o h n R u g g i e ), M s. D e b o r a R. Tjandrakusuma(Legal & Corporate Affairs Director PT Nestlé Indonesia, Vice President Human Rights of IGCN), and was moderated by Ms. Yanti Triwadiantini, Sustainability Adviser to Executive Director Indonesia Business Links. LAUNCH OF THE ALLIANCE FOR INTEGRITY IN INDONESIA Collective Action to Enhance Business Integrity in Indonesia On September 29th 2016, The Alliance for Integrity in Indonesia succesfully launched the event with theme Implementing Integrity into Practice: Collective Action to enhance Business Integrity in Indonesia. The event also featured an interactive panel for a discussion of related issues that confront businesses in Indonesia in the area of integrity and promote collective action as a way to achieve mutual enhancing integrity in Indonesia.

14 INDONESIA PHILANTROPHY FESTIVAL: FOSTERING PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIA JAKARTA, 6-9 October 2016 An event for socialization and introduction are on implementation SDGs in Indonesia. The purpose of IBL on its participation is not only limited to enliven the exhibition but also as a promotional of IBL's mission to visitor in the exhibition IP Fest one-day training partnership batch vi To continue the success of One-Day Training partnership batch 5 on th last March 2016, IBL organized the 6 batch of this training. It was th held on Thursday, October and attended by 10 participants with various backgrounds. Partnership can be de ned as collective work whose risks and advantage are seen as common responsibilities. In this training, the participants learned about the de nition of partnership and how to manage it professionally. Thus, there will be a solid and effective partnership that creates mutual bene t for those who involve in it.

15 Muda Terampil Berusaha (MTB) Forum: EMPOWERING YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR IN KARAWANG IBL organized a talk show for Forum Muda Terampil Berusaha (Forum nd MTB) on Saturday, October at Sindang Reret restaurant, Karawang. In this forum, IBL invited all stakeholders of Program MTB and some speakers to share their experiences in entrepreneurship. This forum also announced the participants who will participate in Program MTB, including the launch of this program. There are four speakers in this talk show, Mr. Eka Robbi Egiwinardo (Team Leader of Micro Bank BJB Karawang), Mr. Asep Irawan Syafei (Young entrepreneur of Karawang), Mrs. Afril Lavanda ( Young entrepreneur of Karawang bene ciary of IBL), and Mr. Fajar Setiawan (Young entrepreneur of Karawang bene ciary of IBL). The talk show talked and shared the experiences of young entrepreneurs of Karawang in doing their business and to learn about the importance of doing business as an alternative way to face the low number of job availability. This talk show was moderated by Mr. Mohamad Fahmi, Executive Director IBL. 128youth entrepreneurship training 399youth workshop entrepreneurship awareness

16 November - december September - october BUSINESS INTEGRITY FORUM BUILDING COLLECTIVE ACTION OF INTEGRITY INITIATIVE IN INDONESIA TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 75 paticipants On November 1, 2016, IBL has convened all business communities and stakeholders to discuss on how the private sector could participate and contribute on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, while strengthening its best practices on doing business with integrity and ethical principle.

17 national seminar ilo: promoting employment and enhancing business linkages in indonesia jakarta, 15 November 2016 ILO has been promoting principles of the multinational and national enterprises declaration Strengthening the implementation of the tripartite declaration on multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration). On the workshop, IBL shared its experiences to encourage multinational and national company through CSR initiatives. international business integrity conference (IBIC) 2016: trends, challenges and collective action in corruption prevention jakarta, November 2016 KPK together with a broad constellation of government ministries, professional associations, private rms and civil society organizations explore current trends, challenges and prospects for collective action to prevent corruption in the private sector. Heru Prasetyo, Chairman Indonesia Business Links, joined on panel discussion "Praktik dan Strategi Kepatuhan bagi Korporasi: Tantangan dan Praktik Baik" with four other speakers. He shared about Prevention is a big undertaking.

18 Join briefing and planning workshop on implementing the asean Agenda on responsible business jakarta, November 2016 The objective of this brie ng and planning meeting is to provide ASEAN of cers a better understanding of CSR based on international standards and norms, allow relevant partners to understand ASEAN's priorities better, and provide a venue for exploring cooperation and collaboration in implementing the ASEAN 2025 blueprint.

19 human RIGHTS, SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING AND RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS CONDUCT - WHAT DOES BUSINESS TO KNOW? a WORKSHOP FOR COMPANIES, EMPLOYERS AND BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS JAKARTA, 1-2 DECEMBER 2016 Business and human rights, sustainability reporting and responsible business conduct more generally are high on many agendas and growing in importance for Business. Companies are being confronted with these themes from various angles: human rights and responsible business conduct are attracting increased media coverage; consumer organisations are becoming more vocal in their demands for information on production conditions and routes to market; non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and trade unions are approaching companies with requests for information on human rights impacts on the societies in which these businesses operate. On behalf ASEAN CSR Network, Mohamad Fahmi, Executive Director Indonesia Business Links presented Driving Business and Human Rights in ASEAN. On that occasion, he also shared ASEAN Guidelines for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Labour. This ASEAN Guidelines for CSR on Labour aims to serve as guidelines for the governments, enterprises/establishments, employers' organisations and workers' organisations in ASEAN Member States.

20 training on managing multi-sector partnership for development building professionalism on partnership brokering surabaya, 5-6 december 2016 The purpose of the training is to have staff involved in the AIP-Rural Program gain the general understanding on partnership and all aspects involved in developing an effective brokering process. Objective the training are: Build awareness on professional partnership process management; Introduce partnership brokering concepts and principles; Build primary skills and professional con dence in partnership brokering; and Promote a 're ective' approach to professional practice on partnership brokering.

21 working group meeting of the alliance for integrity jakarta, 15 december 2016 The Alliance for Integrity convened its rst Working Group meeting at the GIZ Of ce, Jakarta in Indonesia. The meeting was attended by IBL representatives of the Advisory Group member. The meeting aimed to initiate the formation of two Working Groups on capacity building and awareness raising. These Working Groups will serve as platforms for supporters of the Alliance for Integrity to discuss initiatives and develop instruments in the areas of business integrity and anti-corruption in the country.

22 special thanks to in appreciation of your support, as IBL s Corporate Partners in 2016, which help us on promoting Good Corporate Citizenship and Partnership for Development in Indonesia.

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