UN Women 2021 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards:
Meet the National Winners
INDONESIA
We are excited to announce the winners of the first-ever UN Women 2021 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards!
Big congratulations to all the winners who have committed themselves to advancing gender equality and women's economic empowerment. These gender champions from different countries, sectors, and fields are acknowledged respectively for their outstanding Leadership Commitment, Youth Leadership, Gender-inclusive Workplace, Gender-responsive Marketplace, Community and Industry Engagement, and Transparency & Reporting.
*The UN Women Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards represents recognition of exemplary company efforts for gender equality and is limited to a designated category and a specific location and time period. Awarded organizations, alongside their products and services, receiving awards are not endorsed or affiliated with UN Women or WeEmpowerAsia and being recognized as an Awardee does not constitute a partnership. Claims, statements, or endorsements made by awardees are solely those of the individual or organization and do not represent official policies or positions of UN Women.
Winners
As a CEO in a male-dominated culture company, Nicke initiated an improved inclusive culture and gender equality in the workplace through the establishment of the PERTIWI Community. The community acts as the company partner in promoting an inclusive workplace and gender equality in various areas, such as talent development, corporate sustainability, employee well-being, and partnership & communication. Through PERTIWI Community, Nicke boosts female leadership in the company and increases the proportion of female workers in every position and function, establishes workplace discrimination and harassment reporting lines, and closely monitor the achievement of opportunity pay gap. Moreover, she also drives Pertamina’s contribution to empower womenpreneur that own small and medium enterprises through mentoring and training activities.
As a CEO, Tamara lead Liberty Society as a fashion social enterprise that empowers women affected by violence with upskilling opportunities, access to market and community. Liberty Society serve consumers & corporates with ethically made and sustainably crafted merchandises and lifestyle goods. Several activities implemented to empower women such as tailoring, financial literacy and English class workshop. With over 7 years of community development sphere experience, Tamara assists from ideation of theory of change to leading the execution. To ensure all voices are heard and conflicts resolved, she drives the team to place mentorship and buddy system. As a result, women joining Liberty Society gained improvement in several aspects, including income, well-being and productivity hours.
Implementation such as gender-neutral and equitable recruitment policy, annual remuneration review to monitor gender pay gap, clear promotion and career management pathways and training to develop female leadership. Moreover, L'Oréal Indonesia provide variety of benefits to support and reward all employee, including Total Reward Program to look after employee’s emotional wellness and Share & Care Program to make employees feel secure in health and safety, financial aspect, and ensuring work-life balance as well as well-being of female and male employees.
The commitment to empower women from the underprivileged rural communities in economic and social sphere. Aparna has strived to implement gender equality holistically throughout the company’s operations. Internally, she established policies to ensure the company adopt inclusive culture in the hiring, training, and treatment of their employees. Externally, Aparna has commenced the tracing of TORAJAMELO’s supply chain, to ensure that their partners are also committed to the same social and environmental approaches. Moreover, she initiated to work with various partners and local communities to educate women and promote gender equality & women’s empowerment.
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As a private-sector leader, Aria initiated programs and partnerships projects with international organizations and private sectors to improve the capabilities and leadership of women in rural villages. He believes women's empowerment must be done at all levels of socio-economic class.
Under the leadership of Aria, Amartha is the first and might be the only technology company or startup company in Indonesia who appoints a top level management (C-level) of Chief of Risk who also responsible for the Sustainability aspect of the company. Under the Chief Risk and Sustainability
Officer (CRSO) function, Amartha integrates its metrics of women empowerment and improvement of wellbeing as part of business performance evaluation.
Samira realised the barriers that women has to face in being an entrepreneur. Hence, she created a women's empowerment program aiming to continued women’s leadership and representation in all industries of business. With her leadership, she has been able to cultivate a community and tap into various industries to increase awareness on these issues. In the past 9 months, Samira’s leadership has enabled her to execute multiple initiatives including launched the first ever women entrepreneurship accelerator with more than 1000 applications.
women living in rural areas. The financing process is integrated under one product called Tepat Pembiayaan Syariah (TPS). TPS targets groups of women who have the dream and determination to change their lives. The product provides productive underprivileged women with opportunity to receive banking facilities that they would typically have
very limited access to. Operating under Islamic banking principles, TPS is designed to nurture the customers on the following 4 key behaviors: Courage to Do Business, Discipline, Hardwork, and Solidarity (known in its Indonesian acronym as BDKS).
Rubysh is meant to deliver a message that ugly-looking waste may transform into beautiful and stunning fashion items. Since 2016, Rubysh have been working on waste upcycling through the participation of the informal waste sector. Rubysh promote gender equality by giving opportunities to women in the form of skills required to support the family income, employ 40 women from marginalized groups as part of the social movement, and allocated some of the revenue to help communities in need, such as improving the sanitary system, school supplies for their children.
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Neneng Goenadi focuses on