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In carrying out this commitment, the Company promotes its contributions and CSR initiatives under its signature program, Sampoerna Untuk Indonesia Sampoerna for Indonesia, which drives its various initiatives focused on access to
education, economic opportunity, empowering women and disaster relief and preparedness, along with its other social responsibility activities.
The Company also believes in a partnership approach by having strategic, long-term partnerships with corporate, community, government, civil society organizations, universities and other key stakeholders and collaborates directly via
its Sampoerna Volunteers Club SVC. Through the SVC, its employees have the ability to take an active role in various initiatives addressing economic, educational, social, and environmental issues.
Each year, the Company provides scholarships for the children of Sampoerna employees. The Company has distributed approximately 4,300 scholarships to elementary and secondary level students and approximately 600 scholarships
andor financial assistance packages for university students, aimed at encouraging employees to play an active role in encouraging their children to continue on to higher education. The Companys support for educational programs is
heavily concentrated in the areas where the Company sources tobacco leaf and clove, which approximately 9,600 people have participated in, and has expanded its focus on specific education programs pertaining to the Companys Good
Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Labor Practices initiatives. Moreover, approximately 71,000 people have benefited from Sampoerna Corner, an initiative within eight university campus libraries that provide an engaging environment for
students to access knowledge resources.
The Company supports the attainment of individual and community financial independence through participative empowerment programs. The Company has established the Sampoerna Entrepreneurship Training Center SETC,
on a 27 hectare site in Pasuruan, East Java and since its establishment in 2007 SETC has been visited by approximately 55,000 people. SETC has been acknowledged by the Ministry of Cooperative and Small and Medium Enterprise as a
National Entrepreneurship Driver in developing small business start-ups. In total, SETC has trained approximately 22,000 people including 9,300 tobacco farmers and 3,300 start-up small and medium enterprises.
The Company also supports a number of initiatives for women such as community training programs for women on healthy living, financial literacy training and other learning program initiatives and has also established the Sampoerna
Rescue Team in 2002, followed by the establishment of Sampoerna Rescue Training Center in Pasuruan, East Java in 2012 to support public preparedness in the face of natural disasters. The Companys efforts to empower women have
benefited approximately 3,700 women through the community training programs and 2,300 women through small and medium enterprise training.
The Companys disaster relief and preparedness efforts include Sampoerna Rescue, a search and rescue training centre, as well as a tsunami early warning system program, which has benefitted approximately 270,000 people,
humanitarian missions, which have benefited approximately 75,000 people, and free medical services, which have benefitted approximately 52,000 people.