Encouraging the Spirit of Collaboration, Astragraphia Doing Sustainable Supports the Creative Industry

Jakarta, 20 December 2022 – PT Astra Graphia Tbk (Astragraphia) continues to provide added value in implementing sustainable corporate social contributions, focusing on the pillars of health, education, environment, entrepreneurship. As a public company engaged in printing & digital services, Astragraphia is committed to moving together, making a real contribution to the wider community, especially in the domestic creative industry.

Satryo Dewandono - Chief of Business Strategy & Development and Corporate Communications of PT Astra Graphia Tbk said, "Astragraphia directs social contribution programs for sustainable community development by instilling a spirit of collaboration to be able to have a wider impact on the creative industry. This year, Astragraphia through the Astragraphia Class program for Creative Industries (ASIK Class) in collaboration with the Business and Export Development Organization (BEDO), supports innovation and development of MSMEs by providing training, workshops, design consultations, and facilities for printing creative packaging using digital printing technology. that we have. We hope that the attractive and creative packaging display that we present can encourage the success of MSMEs and make them move up a class.”

As of December 2022, Astragraphia has reached 972 MSMEs engaged in the culinary, fashion and craft sectors. Astragraphia realizes the importance of working with the parties in order to spread comprehensive benefits to MSMEs. Astragraphia's collaboration with BEDO has started in 2021 where in 2022, as many as 30 out of a total of 107 MSMEs have been curated to receive packaging updates. Astragraphia facilitates label printing for pouch packaging, box packaging, and frozen food packaging.

Jeff Kristianto - Project Manager Business and Export Development Organization (BEDO) said, "We see that the appearance of product packaging is a challenge for MSMEs that they need to develop. We are aware that an attractive display of packaging will have an impact on increasing sales of MSME products. Therefore, we appreciate Astragraphia's steps in the education and facilities provided to BanggaBEDO local MSMEs through the ASIK Class program. We believe the ASIK Class can be an inspiration and motivation for them to innovate packaging so that it can become an additional capital for them to develop. BanggaBEDO itself is a collaboration program with Astragraphia to improve quality standards, improve packaging, increase local brands, and increase MSME income."

As a form of Astragraphia's commitment to supporting the domestic creative industry, in Astragraphia's social contribution activities in the education pillar, Astragraphia also carries out a series of ongoing knowledge provisioning activities for multimedia Vocational High Schools (SMK) and visual communication design.

Satryo Dewandono - Chief of Business Strategy & Development and Corporate Communications of PT Astra Graphia Tbk said, "Throughout 2022, Astragraphia is running the Competence Aid Program (CAP), which is a knowledge sharing activity and special assistance for multimedia and visual communication design SMKs. Astragraphia is also active in providing mentoring support to SMKs as part of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Technology Research (Kemendikbudristek) CAN Link & Match SMK Program. A series of mentoring activities are carried out in accordance with Astragraphia's competencies and expertise, which consists of curriculum alignment for competency skills, training, support for school facilities, and implementation of apprenticeship programs, as well as industrial visits for students and teachers. All of these activities are a form of Astragraphia's support in teaching factory learning methods that are adapted to the industrial environment so that they gain work experience, become superior resources, and are ready to enter the world of work, especially in the creative industries."

Satryo added, "In the future, we hope to expand our contribution in the field of children's education through the application of technology, products and solutions owned by the Astragraphia Group in the fields of printing and digital. Today simultaneously, we are also holding a Fairytale House event at Rumah Tutur in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf). On this occasion, Astragraphia also supports the printing of fairy tale books and three-dimensional visual objects that children can own and take home.”

This collaboration aims to encourage children's interest in reading, telling stories, and introducing children to the storytelling culture that has been owned by the Indonesian nation for a long time. The implementation of the Fairytale House was attended by around 50 PAUD and Kindergarten children throughout South Jakarta with a series of storytelling activities, training children to tell stories, to coloring activities.

Syaifullah, SE., M.Ec., PhD - Director of Industrial Management, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy said, "We thank and appreciate Astragraphia for giving special attention to activating the Speech House, at Panglima Polim. We believe that with this collaboration, Astragraphia as a company that is competent in terms of digital printing and 3D printing technology can support the sustainability of Rumah Tutur as a place for independently developing cross-generational creativity. We hope that Rumah Tutur can function as a center for workshops, incubation and public education for the development of creative industries and empowerment of the creative economy both in the short and long term.”

Astragraphia is committed to becoming a more resilient and sustainable company by transitioning to realizing its sustainability aspirations through the Triple-P Roadmap Strategy which consists of Portfolio, People and Public Contribution. Astragraphia's sustainability aspirations will guide the company in going further to achieve sustainability that focuses on society, climate and planet.

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About PT Astra Graphia Tbk:

PT Astra Graphia Tbk (Astragraphia) is a public company with the stock code ASGR which was founded in 1975 and has listed its shares on the Indonesia Stock Exchange since 1989. As Astra's business pillar in the field of information technology, Astragraphia focuses on the Printing and Digital Services business scope. Astragraphia has a Document Solutions business portfolio with exclusive partner FUJIFILM Business Innovation, presenting end-to-end solutions ranging from personal printing needs, offices, Graphic Art to managed print services. Astragraphia has a subsidiary, namely PT Astra Graphia Information Technology (AGIT) which serves the needs of Information Technology Solutions, especially Digital Services through collaboration with world-class strategic partners as well as its own solutions which include hardware, software, services, and PT Astragraphia Xprins Indonesia (AXI) which serving Office Solutions through the e-commerce service AXIQoe.com as a One Click Office Solution, the first B2B online printing service in Indonesia PrintQoe.com, as well as 3D printing. For further information, visit www.Astragraphia.co.id.

For further information, please contact:

Satryo Dewandono

Chief of Business Strategy & Development and Corporate Communications

PT Astra Graphia Tbk

Jl. Kramat Raya No. 43

Tel: (021) 390 9190 ext 1290

Email: satryo.dewandono@astragraphia.co.id