Plantation Academy is a development program launched by Great Giant Foods (GGF) in 2022. Plantation Academy is created based on business needs to accommodate GGF’s goals which require experts as well as sustainable future leaders in the plantation area.

“GGF already has many experts and leaders and reliable researchers at this time. The company wants to maintain and develop it further,” said Learning Development Department Head M. Nurdin Rhomadona. Nurdin explained that the initiation of this program started with business needs and then a collaboration was formed between Plantation, R&D, and HR, in this case Learning Development.

The Plantation Academy is divided into 2 sub-programs, namely the Plantation Management Program (PMP) and the Researcher Development Initiative (REDI).

The Plantation Management Program is directly under the auspices of the Head of Processed Pine Plantation Directorate Imanudin and the Researcher Development Initiative program is chaired by Fauzan’s Technical Advisor for Plantation and R&D.

The PMP program covers all fields in plantation commodities, starting from Processed Pine, Banana, Guava, and PPIC. Likewise, the REDI Program does not only cover pineapples but also Agri Technology, Crop Improvement, and Tissue Culture but leads to Regenerative Agriculture.

“Welcome to join the Management Trainees, especially those joining the Plantation Academy program. It is not an easy thing to get a place as a Trainee at Plantation Academy, because you have to go through a gradual selection process, you also have to compete with thousands of candidates who are interested in qualifying as Trainees at Plantation Academy Great Giant Foods,” said Imanudin.

The main thing in the Plantation Academy program is to shape the character of the trainees according to GGF culture. Character focuses on two important things that really need to be done firstly GGF values, secondly Giant Behavior to form a future leader who is strong, agile and at the same time represents GGF culture.