Woman in Mining: Indriani Herlianti – Leadership and Success Begins on the Extra Miles

June 16, 2014, 4:03 pm | Admin

Mining has traditionally been a male dominated industry and although there has been changes in terms of integrating woman into the mining industry, it appears that they are still underrepresented.

According to a study “Mining for Talent” published in January conducted by Woman in Mining (WIM) UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the mining has the lowest number of women in company boards of any industry group in the world. Three main challenges were identified as difficulties for woman in mining – operating in a male-dominated culture, legislation and retaining the skills and talent shown by woman. What women do about is fighting, striving, and prove that they deserve the same opportunity.

Meet one of our employees, Indriani Herlianti, Adaro Energy Mine Water Management Section Head. The 31 year-old female engineer has proven her belief that leadership and success begins on the extra miles. Challenges of being minority in her department cannot stop her to move forward. Leadership is shown when Indri makes extra effort to learn new things as mine planning engineer although this area is different from her educational background, meteorology. Her enthusiasms for learning through trainings and other sources of learning, as well as making improvements in her works proved to her colleagues that she deserved to be employee of the year in her department.

Indriani’s role in her department is very strategic in terms of its forward planning to support the company’s yearly target, create efficiency in Adaro operation. Started out as Junior mine planning engineer in 2008, she is now promoted to become Mine Water Management Section Head in Strategic Planning Division and put Indriani as the fastest and youngest in Adaro Indonesia career ladder.

Indriani was honored in the Stevie Awards, in the category of “Woman of The Year” in May 31, 2014. This category recognized women in 22 countries in Asia-Pacific for their achievement in their workplace.

As Adaro continues to create maximum sustainable value from Indonesian coal and deliver positive energy to the nation, Adaro promotes equal opportunity at all levels of employment. 6% of Adaro’s female employees are mining engineer who work in fields handling technical aspects of mining operation. We provide training and education in order to encourage all employees to have fair opportunities.

Providing gender equality in workplace is one of Adaro’s ways to deliver positive energy and contribute to nation’s building.

Adaro also implements IMORE values in which one of the values is known as Meritocracy. This value encourages every manager to support their subordinates’ growth by giving equal opportunities and appraising their performance objectively

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