Palm oil
Plantation labour, smallholders, land, and the mills that sit between a fruit bunch and a European supermarket.
Business & Human Rights · Indonesia & Southeast Asia
From global mandate to operational reality.
We translate CSDDD, LkSG, UFLPA, and the UN Guiding Principles into practical protocols for Indonesian supply chains — so clients stay in the market, and workers and communities are not an afterthought.
Working against
- UNGPs
- CSDDD
- LkSG
- UFLPA
- CSRD
- OECD
Productized deliverables
Seven engagements. Clear outcomes.
Services are packaged as outcome-based deliverables — so pricing is transparent, and so a buyer questionnaire never has to invent the work.
- 01
BHR Gap Assessment
A clear picture of where you stand against the UNGPs and the regulations that now bind your buyers.
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Supplier Due Diligence
Find where human rights risk actually sits in the chain — then decide what to do about it.
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Policy & Framework Development
Board-ready human rights governance that procurement can actually operate.
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Human Rights Impact Assessment
Identify actual and potential impacts of operations and projects — with affected people in the room, not only in a footnote.
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Grievance Mechanism Design
Channels workers and communities will actually use — tested against the UNGP effectiveness criteria.
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Regulatory Readiness Assessment
Prepare the evidence pack your EU, German, and US counterparties will ask for — before they ask.
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Executive Training & Capacity Building
Workshops that leave procurement, legal, and plant leadership able to run due diligence — not just hear about it.
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Why this practice
Not a legal opinion. Not a social audit. The work in between.
Many firms approach Business & Human Rights from a single silo. We stand in the gap between Brussels text and a plantation, a mill, a vessel, a factory floor.
Operationalization, not theory
We do not only interpret law. We turn dense European regulations into protocols a procurement team and a site manager can run on Monday.
Indonesian context, without the brochure
Labour dynamics, community relations, and the informal economy are not footnotes. They are usually where the risk actually sits — and where international auditors most often miss.
Partner-level, without the bureaucracy
A sole practice: direct engagement, rapid pivots, no junior-leverage pyramid. When field work is needed, we contract trusted local researchers under this brand.
Where the risk concentrates
Indonesia is a critical node. The regulations have noticed.
Mining & critical minerals
Nickel, tin, coal, and the industrial estates that now sit inside every EV and energy-transition story.
Textiles & apparel
Overtime, freedom of association, contract labour, and the second-tier mills brands rarely visit.
Fisheries
Forced labour on vessels, transshipment, and a catching sector that UFLPA and EU buyers now treat as high-risk by default.
Electronics
Contract manufacturing, migrant labour, and components that disappear into a bill of materials long before the brand.
Who we serve
A tiered practice.
Export-oriented SMEs
Compliance that keeps the Western purchase order. Practical, not theatrical.
Tier 1 & 2 manufacturers
Under pressure from multinational brands to demonstrate human rights due diligence, not another certificate.
Indonesian corporates & SOEs
Aligning with global ESG standards because international capital now reads the human rights file.
Law firms & ESG platforms
Technical BHR implementation, and local delivery for software that still needs someone on the ground.
Institutions
International NGOs, development agencies, and impact funds that need an implementation partner, not another study.
Resource center
Briefings you can send to the board.
Regulatory briefing
What the EU CSDDD actually requires of Indonesian suppliers
You do not have to be listed in Brussels to be in the file. A practical reading of cascade, evidence, and the twelve months that matter.
Implementation
Grievance mechanisms that workers will actually use
The UNGP effectiveness criteria are not a poster. A practical design note for Indonesian operations — estates, mills, plants, and vessels.
Risk
Forced labour red flags in Southeast Asian supply chains
UFLPA, the ILO indicators, and what they look like in palm, fisheries, nickel, and apparel — written for procurement and compliance, not for a conference.
The next buyer questionnaire is not a strategy.
If you export, or supply someone who does, human rights due diligence is now an operating system. We will tell you, plainly, where you stand.