Jakarta, 20 August 2017 – PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA) continues to show its supports towards the preservation of wildlife habitats, including orangutan. Commemorating the 72nd of Indonesia’s Independence Day and Orangutan International Day on 19 August, BCA works together with Borneo Orangutan Survival(BOS) Foundation to hold #OrangutanDay of Freedom, which aims to further introduce the issue of conservation of orangutan and its habitat to the people in the capital.
Attending the #OrangutanDay of Freedom event, Executive Vice President Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) BCA Inge Setiawati who also symbolically submitted a donation in the amount of Rp200 million to Deputy CEO Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation Jacqueline L. Sunderland-Groves at fX Sudirman, Jakarta, Sunday (20/08). Inge said that the donation from BCA to BOS Foundation was given to fund orangutan release at the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park(TNBBBR), Bukit Batikap, and Kehje Sewen Forest, Kalimantan.
“After submitting a donation worth of Rp200 million to fund the orangutan release activity in Kehje Sewen Forest in East Kalimantan, this time, BCA once again gives another donation worth of Rp200 million to fund the release of 200 orangutans, performed by BOS Foundation in 2017, of which 100 orangutans will be released in the natural forest while the remaining 100 is to be released in a pre-release island in Kalimantan,” said Inge.
Since 2012, as the largest orangutan Foundation in the world, the BOS Foundation, has been actively releasing 289 orangutans in Kalimantan, with around 650 of them are still in the rehab center. As of first half of 2017, BOSF has released 167 orangutans in Protected Forest of Bukit Batikap di Kalimantan Tengah, 75 orangutans in Kehje Sewen Forest in East Kalimantan, and 47 orangutans in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park in Central Kalimantan. Committed to support activities of the BOSF to preserve orangutans, BCA has been actively distributing donations and recently participated in dispatching 12 orangutans from the Orangutan Reintroduction Program in Nyaru Menteng to pre-determined release points in Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park in Central Kalimantan.
“BCA, through its CSR program, has been proactively and continuously providing supports to orangutan and its habitat conservation efforts implemented by the BOS Foundation, as we at BCA believe that wildlife such as orangutans should live freely in their natural habitat, the forest. We also believe that greater support can be provided by the public. Therefore, on this day, BCA is supporting activities to raise public awareness and by holding this event, we at BCA hope that the Indonesian public will be more aware of the importance of orangutan and its habitat conservation efforts,” Inge concluded.
BCA Donated Rp200 Million to BOS Foundation - Executive Vice President Corporate Social Responsibility of PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA) Inge Setiawati (right) symbolically handed over a donation of Rp 200 million to Deputy CEO Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Foundation Jacqueline L. Sunderland-Groves (left) at the #OrangUtanDay of Freedom event in Jakarta, Sunday (20/08). Committed to support the conservation efforts of orangutan and its habitat, BCA donated Rp200 million to the BOS Foundation to fund the release of orangutans at the Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park (TNBBBR), Bukit Batikap, and Kehje Sewen Forest, Kalimantan.
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