JAKARTA – As many as 4,500 students from 36 schools spread in Merauke and Boven Digoel, Papua received a donation of stationery from a palm oil company, Tunas Sawa Erma (TSE) Group. This donation activity is an effort to provide a positive contribution in order to improve the quality of human resources (HR) in Indonesia, especially in Papua, which is the company’s operational area.
The donation was provided for students at various levels of education, from level of Early Childhood Education to High School. The stationery provided varies from notebooks, drawing books, colored pencils, erasers, and rulers.
“The stationery donation could help increase the educational capacity of the community living around TSE Group’s operational area. Especially for those with limited financial resources to provide school supplies for their children,” said the Head of Public Relations Division at TSE Group, Chinguk Cheong, as quoted by Investor Daily from a written statement, Wednesday (3/8/2021).
Cheong also hoped the donation could encourage the students’ enthusiasm in learning during the Covid-19 pandemic, which makes the learning activities only possible to do at home. “I hope with this new stationery, children can be more enthusiastic to study,” he mentioned.
Novi, one of the outstanding students living in the company area expressed her gratitude for the donation. “Thank you to the company for helping us. Hopefully we will find them useful,” she said, followed by an applause from the teachers.
Not long ago, TSE Group also donated stationery to 48 elementary school students at SDN Persiapan in Miri Village, Boven Digoel. This donation was handed over along with the honorarium assistance to teachers at the same elementary school.
SDN Persiapan Miri is one of the schools experiencing difficulties in implementing distance learning or online learning during the pandemic due to the lack of access to the internet. As a result, teaching and learning activities were halted for some time.
One of the teachers who received the honorarium at SDN Persiapan Miri, Teda Gembenop, said that the assistance provided by TSE Group would be able to bring up the enthusiasm in the education staff and students. “With this assistance, the children will be encouraged to study more actively in order to reach their dreams for a better future,” he conveyed.
Donation of stationery is a part of TSE Group’s Corporate Social Contribution (CSC) in education. This program is regularly carried out by TSE Group through its three subsidiaries, PT TSE, PT Berkat Cipta Abadi (BCA), and PT Dongin Prabhawa (DP).
“TSE Group’s commitment in education was not only shown through the donation of school supplies to the students in remote areas. The company often provides scholarships to the children of the landowners, honorarium assistance to the teachers, and the provision of school buses. This series of programs is a form of the company’s concern for the welfare of the community living around the company area,” Cheong revealed. (nan)
Source : Investor Daily
