Sustainable development is a development that meets the current needs without sacrificing future generations to fulfill their own needs.
Sustainability is a paradigm of thinking about the future that considers balanced environmental, social and economic aspects in pursuing the quality-of-life improvement.
Sustainability is concerned with long-term goals while sustainable development refers to the processes and pathways to achieve them.
The community is an important stakeholder for us. ITM continues to actively involve local communities in the entire value chain of the company. We continue to absorb community expectations periodically through various approaches such as Community Consultative Forums, Materiality Surveys and other informal methods. Walking hand in hand between the company and society towards an empowered and sustainable society is our ultimate goal.
We are aware that human and company activities have impacted the environment and thus consequently influence the ecosystem and nature. Furthermore, ITM understands that biodiversity is granted by the nature and thus need to be conserved despite company’s operational activities. ITM has formulated and executed various initiatives to be able to positively contribute to the environment and protect the biodiversity.
Cultural sustainability that is related to sustainable development is concerned with maintaining cultural beliefs, cultural practices, heritage preservation, and the question of whether a particular culture will persist in the future or not. Culture and the creative culture industry are the thruster and the driver of economic, social, and environmental of sustainable development. In carrying out its operational activities, we highly respect and preserve the culture of the local community and promotes local culture as a driving force for the community's economy.
Our business activities that contain economic motives can be sustainable when running in harmony with the environment. Natural resource management is directed at improving community welfare and restoring environmental functions. Thus, our efforts to pursue targets or profits are related to poverty alleviation through improving the socio-economic welfare of the community and earnest efforts to preserve the environment
ITM strengthens the health capacity of stakeholders for early warning, risk reduction and management of health risks, especially local stakeholders, including the development and training for health facilities and workers in our surrounding area.