Kelompok Tani Milenial Binaan INALUM di Aek Songsongan Rayakan Hasil Panen Perdana

Asahan, 14 Juni 2024 - PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum or INALUM celebrated the first harvest of melon cultivation in the Aek Songsongan area, Asahan Regency. The program, which is a collaboration between the company and Karang Taruna in the area, is INALUM's commitment to creating new economic growth in the area around the company's operations. 

INALUM Corporate Secretary Mahyaruddin Ende said that this collaboration program was the company's commitment to realizing independence and community empowerment, especially for young people. He hopes that this creative and productive collaboration can continue and that INALUM's main goal of developing society can be realized. 

"INALUM as part of Indonesia is committed to being able to provide maximum benefits to the community, especially young people, one of which is through productive collaborations such as agriculture. We hope that these positive activities can provide benefits not only from the company's guidance, but also benefits that sustainable," said Mahyaruddin.

INALUM Senior VP CSR/TJSL Daniel JP Hutauruk said that this productive collaboration could improve the welfare of the surrounding community in a more sustainable manner. He said that future plans are not just melons and chilies or onions, but will try to cultivate other agro commodities. 

“Not only melon plants, but at this location, corn, chilies, long beans, cucumbers, cassava, eggplant, papaya, watermelon, oranges are also being planted. We hope that in the future, with the presence of various types of plants, this can become an integrated farming area to obtain an agroecosystem that supports agricultural production. "So we hope that through this garden we can also lift the economy of the local area by utilizing the land under the Inalum transmission line," said Daniel during the First Melon Harvest activity in Aek Songsongan. 

Meanwhile, Eko Pranolo as Chair of the Aek Songsongan Village Youth Organization said that Inalum together with the Aek Songsongan District Government continue to encourage and provide lots of space for young millennial farmers to be creative in introducing and utilizing agricultural technology. 

"Community Empowerment efforts carried out by PT Inalum not only have an impact on increasing youth capacity in the agricultural sector, but the introduction and use of technology to accelerate agricultural management has not escaped PT Inalum's attention," said Eko.

Furthermore, Eko said that the group of millennial farmers who are also members of the Karang Taruna Aek Songsongan Village are very grateful to PT Inalum for its commitment to youth to grow and develop together in its community empowerment program so that it has an impact on increasing income and economic independence of the community, especially youth in the agricultural sector. who are members of Karang Taruna Aek Songsongan and we open ourselves to young people or local communities who are interested in learning together and developing agriculture with Karang Taruna Aek Songsongan.