Living Environment Management

PT Inco is committed to ensuring that it will operate in a healthy environment, by conducting continual improvement on the living environment performance, in the form of Post Mining Areas Rehabilitation, Sediment Control, Liquid Waste Control as well as Dust Emission Control.

Since the post mining area reclamation was started on 1980, PT Inco has conducted continual improvement on their performance with sustainable development principle. When the post mining area reclamation was started, they focused on erotion control. Since then many efforts has been done to improve the performance.

In 2003, PT Inco created standarization of post mining area reclamation which has been certified by Directorate General of Mining to meet the demand for an optimum result entirely. It consists of best practice of post mining area reclamation activities.Since then, the activities became an unseparated part of mining plan until execution level.

Up to the end of 2005 PT Inco Tbk has revegetated 2.844 hectares of post mining areas. PT Inco Tbk has cooperated with PSl-UNHAS and The Biotechnological Forest Laboratorium IPB in doing repeated surveys and studying the reproduction of many local endemic plants to support the local endemic revegetation program.

PT. Inco always tries to integrate the post mining area reclamation program with the community development program so people can take advantages from the company. The company invited Mr. Zukri Saad (consultant, former Executive Director of WALHI), to evaluate the reclamation program and to give recommendation over reclamation program which is integrated with community and local government development program.