Technology Advancement for Sustainable Urban Farming to Improve Social Welfare by Empowering Local Community: A Case of Pindad Industry-Manufacturing, Indonesia (93500)
Session Chair: Yulia Kristina
Thursday, 15 May 2025 13:40
Session: Session 3
Room: Room 708 (7F)
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
This paper discusses about the development of Urban Farming (UF) as an initiative to improve the welfare of local community by leveraging technology advancement as a core competency from Pindad Industry Manufacturing. The UF here has been developed for half a decade by following CSV concept, aligned with the history of the unmanaged landfills in the previous publication that transform to be gardening facilities by empowering 33 locals, especially the most vulnerable in the area, which is women and elders. This introduced the development of the UF with technological approach, such as rain water harvesting, small-scale solar power and wind power, and composting with utilization of organic waste.
The results shows that the initiative has impact on water efficiency about 9,000 m3/year; energy efficiency about 2.52 Giga-Joules/year from renewable energy usage. The industry also supports locals by managing organic waste into compost processing, produces 309 tons of organic-fertilizer. At least 20 productive-plants were successfully harvested, 30% were farmers-consumed; the other 70% were marketed locally, supporting the local needs of plant-based food sources thus supporting community social welfare.
To enhance the key performance measurement, the index of social return on investment has been calculated with the result of 3.87 along with the community satisfaction of 88.03%. This means the program has able to present social benefit for the locals. The program also emphasised lesson learned regarding to farm to table concept, simultaneously reducing the impact of odour from the garbage unmanaged disposal, with the touch of collaboration with local community involvement.
Authors:
Dewi Permatasari, Independent Researcher, Indonesia
Yulia Kristina, Pindad Defense Industry Manufacturing, Indonesia
Yunus Somantri, Pindad Defense Industry Manufacturing, Indonesia
Muhammad Ruslanna, Pindad Defense Industry Manufacturing, Indonesia
Rani Herliani, Pindad Defense Industry Manufacturing, Indonesia
Prima Kharisma, Pindad Defense Industry Manufacturing, Indonesia
About the Presenter(s)
Ms Dewi Permatasari is currently at Environmental Professional in Indonesia
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