The biggest risk faced by mining business practitioners, including Antam is the potential threat of environmental damage which could disturb ecosystem around mining site. This reality is acknowledged by Company to run the mining operations at all of Antam business units in accordance with proper standard of practice and existing regulations since the stage of planning until post-mining.
Antam's environmental policy includes:
- Developing and applying an environmental management system referring to applicable laws and standards.
- Striving for the implementation of system, methods, tools, material with minimum negative impact on environment in every mining operation.
- Utilizing natural resources optimally for conservation and waste minimizing.
- Owning, implementing and complying with regulations of environmental document in every operational activities.
- Preventing and minimizing environmental pollution.
- Minimizing disturbed land and rehabilitating the land according to its use including conservation and preservation of flora and fauna within the area.
- Owning emergency response procedures for activities with potential to cause environmental accident.
- Owning mine closure planning at every mining activities on operational/production phases.
- Making evaluation to improve environmental performance in sustainable manner.
Antam's outstanding environmental management practices have been recognised through the PROPER Award for most of its business units. Antam’s Gold Mining Business Unit at Pongkor, West Java receives the Green PROPER Award while the Southeast Sulawesi Nickel Mining Business Unit, the North Maluku Nickel Mining Business Unit, and the Logam Mulia Precious Metals Processing and Refinery Business Unit each receives Blue PROPER Award. The Green PROPER Award indicates Antam’s environmental handling exceeds the existing law and regulations. The award also highlights Antam’s conservation and resources management through the implementation of 4R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recovery) principles and CSR programs. The Blue PROPER Award reflects Antam’s environmental handling meets the criteria of the existing law and regulations.
To get a more complete picture of our Environmental Management Performance, please see the section within our Sustainability Report