Authors
Permatasari, Dewi; Nasra, Musytaqim; Delfa, Andria; Firdaus

Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic, a global health crisis which has devastated so many countries including Indonesia with so many people being infected by the coronavirus, has also impacted people living in Padang, the capital city West Sumatra in terms of their health, economy and social fabric. Apparently, the pandemic has not only impacted the livelihoods of the local communities there, but also the operations of several industries in the area. State-owned cement maker Semen Padang, which as its name suggested, also has a factory in West Sumatra, has become one of the companies whose operations are impacted by the multiple consequences of the coronavirus outbreak. Amid a pandemic which has disrupted societal lives in both local and regional levels, Semen Padang has no choice but to resume its operations in adherence with business standard operational procedures, supplemented with extra focus on various health and hygiene aspects of its workers and communities living in the vicinity of the company’s operational area within the context of the coronavirus outbreak, to shield them from infection risks. This paper will explore Semen Padang’s various contributions to nationwide COVID-19 impact mitigation efforts, bringing together the company’s operational aspects while still paying close attention to the conservation of its surrounding areas, as well as the empowerment of local communities devastated by the pandemic. In its environmental management realm, the company has shifted from using non-renewable fuel to renewable ones by utilizing agro-industrial waste. Besides that, the company has also attempted to substitute or add its components as alternatives to control the environmental effects of the company’s operations. In the community empowerment realm, the company still goes ahead with its development of ecotourism ecosystem in the vicinity of its operational area to make sure that the public at large will still be able to make a living off the tourism industry to sustain their welfare in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. From all the efforts mentioned above, the company has been able to manage 22.4 tons of COVID-19-related waste (including face masks, disinfectants as well as other health and hygiene tools), while boosting energy efficiency to 136,645 GJ, reducing its toxic and hazardous waste to 9 – 38 liters of oil per day, utilizing 430 kilograms of filter bags containing its toxic and hazardous waste, reducing its particulate emission to 250 tons per day, boosting water use efficiency in its Indarung factory to 50 percent, conserving the germ plasm of the Bilih fish species by minimum 10 percent, as well as the empowerment of communities living in the vicinity of the company’s ecotourism area, covering 15 residents in the Lambung Bukit area. The company has started these initiatives before the pandemic occurred; the company alters the program slightly by introducing new health and hygiene protection protocols to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic and hopefully it can benefit all entities which belong to the business’ ecosystem even long after the pandemic has ended.