BUMN Mining Industry Holding MIND ID ensures mining operations help maintain biodiversity to restore post-mining ecosystem functions while having a positive impact on the environment.

"The MIND ID Group ensures mining operations also maintain biodiversity in the vicinity," said Corporate Secretary of MIND ID Heri Yusuf, Monday, August 12.

Heri said that mining activities that MIND ID did not only continue, but also had a positive impact on the environment and the surrounding community.

Heri said that mining operational areas, which are often located in forest areas and green open areas, demand that companies manage biodiversity, both flora and fauna, around them.

This step was also carried out by PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (ANTAM) which has the Protected Forest Conservation program of Bukit Belungai, West Kalimantan covering an area of 4 hectares. This program includes the conservation of 32 types of flora and 64 types of fauna, including Kalimantan endemic herpetofauna to protect rare species in the region.

Then, PT Bukit Asam Tbk (PTBA) has an orchid conservation program covering an area of 2.1 hectares in South Sumatra. With a capacity of 500 thousand orchid stems, this conservation program includes various orchid rescue processes ranging from location identification, inventory and type identification, to planting and multiplying of flowers with tissue culture.

"This conservation program has 80 types of orchids intended to supply reclamation needs, meet external demand, and rehabilitate Watersheds (DAS)," he said.

Meanwhile, PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Inalum) has also carried out conservation activities around Lake Toba by planting 732,265 trees in an area of 1,409.63 hectares during the 2015-2022 period.

In 2022, Inalum will add 308,148 trees through various conservation programs as part of full support for government programs to make Lake Toba a Super Priority Tourism Destination.

Meanwhile, the biodiversity program carried out by PT Timah Tbk was carried out through sea rehabilitation in the Bangka area.

"Because it is carried out in water areas, this rehabilitation activity includes the construction of fish protection sites, coral transplants to restore damaged coral reefs, mangrove planting, sea water quality monitoring, and restocking squid and mangrove crabs," he said.

Meanwhile, PT Vale Indonesia Tbk (VALE) developed Sawerigading Wallacea Park (Taman Kehati Sawerigading Wallacea) or a conservation area in East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi.

Equipped with various complete facilities, he continued, the area includes conservation sites for butterflys, deer breeding, 700 tree seedlings per year, and arboretum for collections of 70 tree species and mining parks, to display old mining equipment.