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SAGO

Our sago harvesting and processing operation in South Sorong, Southwest Papua, is operated by our subsidiary PT ANJ Agri Papua (ANJAP) since September 2007.

ANJ operates a sago harvesting and processing operation in South Sorong, Southwest Papua, through our subsidiary, ANJAP. ANJAP manages a 40,000-hectares concession, where it is pioneering the country’s first commercial-scale harvesting of natural sago palm. ANJAP processes the logs at its sago mill to produce dry sago starch, which is sold to the food industry. As a sustainable alternative to rice, sago plays a key role in our sustainable agribusiness strategy, which is aligned with the government’s food security objectives as well as its economic and social development acceleration strategy in Papua.

Our sago starch is processed from sago palms that naturally grow in swamps in our sago forest concession. To ensure that our harvesting process is sustainable and allows the natural regrowth of palms, we implement selective harvesting in which we only harvest palms that have reached an age of maturity. After the harvesting process is completed, we replace the removed palms and plant the wide vacancies with sago suckers selected from the surrounding areas.  Any soil and biomass disturbed during harvesting are also restored. We do not apply any chemical pesticides, fertilizers, or any other chemical substances in our sago forest concession. The processing of sago starch in our mill uses modern industry equipment and does not use whitening chemicals. In other words, although we have yet to obtain organic product certification, our sago starch is in fact organically produced. 

As a sustainable alternative to rice, sago plays a key role in our sustainable agribusiness strategy, which is aligned with the government’s food security objectives as wellas its economic and social development acceleration strategy in Papua.

As part of our marketing strategy, we distribute our sago starch in two different commercial brands. Pati Alam® is the brand we use for the large 50 kg pack size, distributed to industrial customers, while Sapapua® is the brand used for the 500-gram pack size, marketed to home industries and household consumers. Sapapua® brand is promoted and available via both online and selected offline channels. Our official online stores are managed by our employees from various functions as part of their participation in the Company’s Responsible Development program since 2019. Subsequently, in 2021, we added edamame (Edashi® brand) to our online stores. By making Edashi® and Sapapua® available on various e-commerce platforms, we have seen remarkable growth in consumer numbers over the last four years, increased by 173.7% from 605 consumers in 2020 to 1,656 consumers in 2023.

 

 

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