Danamon Peduli Foundation was established on February 17, 2006 by Bank Danamon Indonesia, the fifth largest bank in Indonesia.  Danamon Peduli supports sustainable, community-based programs, involving volunteers. ‘Peduli’ (care) reflects the vision of Bank Danamon, where “we care and enable millions to prosper”.  

The Board of Trustees and the Board of Supervisors of Danamon Peduli consists of prominent leaders who are concerned about Indonesia’s sustainable development.  They oversee the work of the Foundation’s Executive Office.   The Executive Office is a lean and simple organization, staffed by professionals.  The Executive Office primarily conducts preparatory ground work, which involves facilitating dialogues, surveys and studies; setting up program frameworks and guidelines; and conducting public outreach.  In particular, the Executive Office engages multi-stakeholders to implement the Foundation’s programs.

Danamon Peduli has three key programs. The first focuses on revitalizing Indonesian traditional (wet) markets and the second assists victims of natural disasters.  The third is a new and innovative program, named ‘Danamon Go Green’ where the Foundation works with 31 local governments to convert organic market waste from their respective wet markets into high quality compost (this program became a finalist of BBC World Challenge 09). The annual ‘National Clean Market Day’ is a program where the Foundation cleaned up over 700 markets in 1 day, deployed over 8,500 volunteers and touched over 500,000 beneficiaries in 32 provinces of  Indonesia, while our ‘Quick Disaster Response’ program  aims the Bank to be the first in helping victims of disasters close to its branches all over Indonesia.

Bank Danamon employees are the main assets of the Foundation in terms of volunteers and access to grassroots. By delivering Danamon Peduli programs, over 40,000 employees of 1,400 branches of Bank Danamon have the opportunities to serve as change agents and caring members of its surrounding communities.

Bank Danamon set aside yearly funds for Danamon Peduli based on the proposed strategy and work plan which are endorsed by the Board of Trustees.