Ensuring ASEAN's Sustainability & Economic Viability

Date: Thursday, 5 February
Event Title:  Ensuring ASEAN's Sustainability & Economic Viability Through Proper Resource Use & Management
Headline Ensuring ASEAN's Sustainability & Economic Viability
Speakers
  • Ali Mundakir, Vice-President, Corporate Communications, Pertamina
  • Daniel Dumas, Executive Director, Canadian International Resources & Development Institute (CIRDI)
  • Potro Soeprapto, Senior Manager Social Responsibility & Government Relations, PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara
  • Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia
  • Puvan Selvanathan, Head for Sustainable Agriculture, UN Global Compact
  • Debora R. Tjandrakusuma, Legal & Corporate Affairs Director, PT Nestle Indonesia
Description
Highlights:
  
  • Businesses can work on their core values (business expertise) but collaboration of private sector, government and civil society is needed for there to be sustainable outcomes for communities.
  • Countries need frameworks in place to manage resources, and proper institutions to monitor, manage and enforce frameworks.  Countries need to build cpacity to enforce frameworks.
  • Beyond the management of physical, natural resources like water, energy, food, there needs to be a focus on human economy and cpaital to harness the potential energy of ASEAN.  This is important as the issues of inequality, development gaps and social mobility opportunities,if not managed properly can be disastrous for the region.
  • The social media can be harnessed to gather people's ideas, feedback/complaints and for accountability.
  • One of the biggest challenges facing society-NGOs and other parts of civil society need tgo engage with business.  There has to be realisation that it takes active investment/ involvement on part of businesse
  • The role of youth in Next-Gen CSR - There is an ingtergenerational tension that is beginning to show.  Millenials think differently, travel extensively and hey have fresh perspectrives and incubate new ideas.  They are willing to go out and do things on their own.  However, they will require guidance from previous generations.  A lot of the problems that face society today have been created by them and teh millennnials will require support in dealing with them.
  • The role of the national government - companies alone cannot do everything.  Governments can set long term frameworks, minimise corruption, educate people with skills they need and enable them to do what they need to do.