Alam Siak Lestari

Alam Siak Lestari is a community-owned enterprise in Siak, Indonesia. Our mission is to protect peat by establishing value-added industry for peat friendly commodities with a flexible structure able to accommodate community ownership. Alam Siak Lestari consist of all Indonesian professionals with 20 years of combined experience & network led by Siak's own CEO. Th company develops value-added products based on peat friendly commodities on its own brand and offers action-based research support for partners. One of the most recently launched effort by Alam Siak Lestari is HEAL Fisheries. ASL developed HEAL Fisheries based on local tradition to serve snakehead fish as immune booster. As quality of the ecosystem determines the quality of the snakehead fish, HEAL Fisheries offers a business case for peat conservation through fish cultivation in peat conservation and canal blockage area. Village communities in ASL models have options to benefit directly from the sales revenue, namely (i) annual dividend from ASL for entities registered as shareholder, (ii) sales of raw materials from their cultivation area and (iii) salary as employees of ASL research and/or production units. ASL is developing its own traceability system to maintain integrity of its supply-chain as well as impact management system to boost competitive advantages of its products, available to be sourced by businesses as well as direct to consumers. Further, ASL also offers action-based research support for any derivatives product development from peat-friendly commodities. Our support strive to use more accessible technology - all process must be simple and affordable enough so that community based business are able to adopt it in practice. The R&D process to define ‘accessibility’ have and will always be done through co-creation directly with the community as means of education. Partners can benefit from both the results as well as learning from the co-creation process.