ADVANCING TRACEABILITY APPROACH
   

Background

                                                
  At Mewah, we recognize the importance of being able to trace our raw materials from our refineries back to palm oil mills and oil palm plantations. This is to assure a greater supply chain transparency to all Mewah’s Customers/Buyers. Today, we have successfully identified 100% of palm oil mills and kernel crushing plants supplying crude palm oil (CPO) and/or crude palm kernel oil (CPKO) to our refineries in Malaysia.

In Mewah’s Traceability to Plantation approach, a comprehensive field assessment will be carried out at every suppliers’ mills to access its Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB) supply base and to evaluate its compliance to Mewah’s Sustainable Palm Oil Policy using our pre-defined Supplier Assessment Guidelines. This Public Summary Report represents the overall Sustainability findings collected by means of multiple sampling methodologies including observation, documentation review, dialogue & interview and spatial analysis during on-site assessment at our suppliers’ mill.  

  
   
   

Methodology

                                               
                                                   
  1. Traceability to Plantation (TTP) Initiative  
                                                       
  Traceability is critical in ensuring we understand; and risk mitigates our supply chain. At Mewah, our Traceability to Plantation approach is based on four (4) main categories: Market Prospect, Legality, Governance, and Risk Due Diligence.  
                                                       
  We actively engage with our upstream suppliers to ensure that they legally comply with a valid operating license from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and demonstrate impeccable governance in their sustainability practices. Our suppliers must also deliver robust due diligence assessments on their operations via the Rapid Environmental, Social and Governance Impact Assessment (RESGA). The RESGA tool is defined following SIA guidelines & approach for MSPO Standards that enable us to identify and mitigate potential environmental, social and governance risks in our supply chain.  
                                                       
   
Traceability to Plantation
Market Prospect
Legality
Governance
ESG Due Diligence
 		         
   
Volume FFB Supplied
Availability & Validity of MPOB License
Sustainability Certification (National or any Voluntary Scheme)
Rapid Environmental, Social and Governance Impact Assessment (RESGA)
 		         
   
Estate/Plantation
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Smallholder
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Not Applicable
          
   
Dealers
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  Remark:  
 
  • Plantation - > 1,000 ha
  • Smallholder - < 40.46 ha
  • Smallgrower – 40.46 ha – 1,000 ha
  
  *The certification of the dealers against national certification scheme is currently on voluntarily basis, until the announcement of mandatory implementation by the authority.  
                                                       
   
                                                       
  2. Environmental Risk Analysis  
                                                       
  Since 2017, we started assessing to the risk profile of over 250 CPO suppliers in our supply chain. We are applying the online forest monitoring and alert system – Global Forest Watch (GFW) and Global Forest Watch Pro (GFW Pro) in the environmental risk assessment.  
                                                       
  The GFW platform enable us to identify potential deforestation risks in our supply chain; the desktop assessment is done through overlapping the TTP data (collected during our TTP assessment) and other source of information such as peatland map, intact forest landscapes, tree cover loss and etc.  
                                                       
  For further information, please visit Global Forest Watch Map.  
                                                       
   
                                                       
  3. Social Impact Assessment  
                                                       
  In relation to respecting human rights and labour rights, Malaysia has ratified a total of 18 International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Conventions. On top of the ratification, these conventions have been domesticated into national laws and regulations, including Employment Act 1955, Child and Young Persons Act 1966, Housing and Amnesties Act 1990, Trade Union Act 1959, Sabah Labour Ordinance 1950, and etc.  
                                                       
  In order to making sure our suppliers’ mills are legally responsible and accountable to advocate human and labour rights in Malaysia, we developed our own set of assessment checklist to address social challenges and identify gaps in our supply chain.  
                                                       
   
                                                       
  4. The following are the relevant details for PT Jambi Batanghari Plantations (PT JBP):  
                                                       
  i. PT JBP HCV Report (Externally Verified)  
                                                       
  ii. PT JBP IUCN Red List (Externally Verified)  
                                                       
  iii. PT JBP SIA Report (Externally Verified)  
                                                       
  iv. PT JBP HCV HCS Mapping  
                                                       
  v. PT JBP Shape File HGU (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)  
                                                       
  vi. PT JBP Global Forest Watch Pro Report  
                                                       
 
Please click here for Mewah Group’s Public Summary Reports for our supplier assessment (As of Year 2024).

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