REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities takes part in supporting the role of women through various empowerment programs that are able to promote the well-being of Indonesian women. One of them is through the organization of the BRiNita Program (BRI Farming in the City).

In this program, BRI takes an important part by empowering communities, especially women by creating sustainable urban farming ecosystems, in densely populated urban areas, in order to take value, on the social, economic, and environmental aspects. The BRiNita program has currently been implemented in 21 locations spread across various regions in Indonesia, most of which are managed by women's business groups.

“The target of this program is densely populated locations and slums that have local environmental activists (local heroes) who are members of groups (the PKK or Ibu Women). BRINita is not only the development of physical facilities, but also there is continuous training that is expected to maintain the sustainability of plants and the survival of surrounding exosystems,” said Deputy President Director of BRI Catur Budi Harto, Tuesday (23/4/2024).

In its implementation, BRI also provides training for group members or beneficiaries in the form of training in urban farming management by collaborating with relevant experts/agencies as well as monitoring urban farming activities and developing urban farming results so as to add economic value such as sales, management, packaging and marketing.