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CASE STUDY: INDONESIA

Marathon is adapting lessons learned in our Equatorial Guinea operations to ensure that our presence in Sulawesi has a positive, lasting impact on island residents.

A successful exploration program in Sulawesi could lead to significant development and production activities near coastal and inland villages within our Production Sharing Contract (PSC).

Marathon is building local capacity by helping communities organize, assess and address their own needs. We offer training, materials and support so that communities ultimately can manage social projects on their own. To ensure residents are aware of all the resources available to them, we foster relationships between residents and government resources.

Empowering Communities

CSR efforts began in 2007 in conjunction with planning for early stage exploration work. Through a participatory consultation approach, we engaged people in 25 villages along 62 miles of coastline. Residents formed Community Consultative Forums and participated in an open process to discuss concerns and opportunities.

Together, residents agreed to focus on developing sustainable health, education and income-generating projects. The Forums identified projects to address specific needs and developed solutions.

Marathon's role has been to organize volunteers known as cadres, provide training and technology, oversee start-up efforts and help residents in developing a sustainable income source. Our Sulawesi CSR team coordinates with district and local government departments, which face challenges delivering services to remote communities.

Once local programs are firmly established, government departments have been willing to invest in sustaining them. As a result of working together to achieve sustainability, greater mutual trust has developed between volunteers and the government.

Improving Health and Economic Prospects

The Forums addressed a major priority by creating a program on nutrition, immunization, breast-feeding and pregnancy health, with 950 children enrolled and vaccinated in 2009. Trained volunteers identified 145 of these children as malnourished and the children received government treatment.

Elected Community Health Committees (CHCs) carried out the programs. Coordinating with the local Health Department, Marathon arranged training for the Committees and traditional midwives. To reach a broader population, CHC members are responsible for training others in their villages.

To sustain these health projects, each village agreed to establish an income-generating project such as growing corn. The Forums offer villagers work opportunities, with preference given to people without jobs and who have appropriate skills.

The government is using Marathon's model to expand self-sustaining programs beyond our PSC area. Marathon coordinates with the Health Department to send cadres to other villages to train people and help set up health programs. The Agriculture Department is donating corn seeds for 200 hectares of land for farmers who use Marathon's project model.

Accessing Clean Water

Ten sub-villages identified access to clean water for drinking and other daily needs as a priority. The Forums formed a self-managed Water Committee to get river water flowing 5 miles to approximately 3,500 residents.

Volunteers built a water supply and transportation system, using horses to haul construction materials over rough terrain. Marathon involved the government in procuring materials and providing assistance.

We offered supplies, technical advice and training in facility operations, maintenance, sanitation and financial management. Building these capabilities within the local communities is important for project sustainability.

The Water Committee operates and maintains the system, promotes hygiene in the villages and manages monthly billing of residents. It also expanded the project to pipe water into individual houses. Having access to clean water has increased productivity and improved residents' health and sense of self-reliance.

Boosting Literacy and Education

Marathon provides books and materials for a mobile library serving 350 children in remote villages. Volunteers host after-school reading programs and other activities in private homes to promote the library and literacy. These efforts have improved the children's speech and learning abilities and increased enthusiasm for reading.

To accommodate growing demand, volunteers are building gazebos to serve as libraries in eight villages. Marathon provides supplies and technical help. The cadres will receive training to manage the libraries and operational funding from the government.

With the goal of improving the quality of education, Marathon is supporting pilot implementation of UNICEF's Creating Learning Communities for Children concept in 24 elementary schools.

We provide training and technical assistance for principals, teachers, parents and community leaders. Teachers will be qualified to train teachers from other schools in the "active, joyful and effective learning" methods. Ultimately, 2,500-3,000 pupils will benefit. The government is prepared to replicate the method in other schools.

Documenting Best Practices and Lessons Learned

An audiovisual project helps communities share local progress, achievements and best practices with stakeholders. The project involved community consultation on planning all aspects of videos designed to inform, persuade and entertain. Through the Forums, volunteers received training on camera use, script writing and basic editing.

Movies are shown in Community Movie Nights and shared with cadres in new project sites. A movie about the mobile library persuaded the local government to help sustain the project by giving support.

Sustainable Social Projects

Fostering community development and social change is important to the success of oil and gas development projects, especially in developing countries. In building community relationships, our CSR principles guide us. Marathon's experiences in Sulawesi and EG demonstrate that stakeholder dialogue, capacity building programs and mutual respect can lead to sustainable social change.