Yogyakarta, 10 December 2025 — Dr. Unang Mulkhan, Senior Business and Human Rights (BHR) and ESG Specialist, participated as a panelist in the Indonesia Social Investment Forum (ISIF) 2025, a key platform that brings together policymakers, businesses, and civil society actors to discuss sustainable and responsible investment practices in Indonesia.

Dr.Mulkhan joined a distinguished panel alongside Y.W. Junardy, Founder of the Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN), and Dr. Patricia Rinwigati, S.H., M.I.L., Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia, in a session titled “Human Rights and Supply Chains: Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD)”. The discussion explored the evolving expectations and regulatory landscape surrounding business responsibility for human rights in global and domestic supply chains.

In his presentation, Dr. Mulkhan delivered insights on “Implementing International Human Rights Standards in Corporate Due Diligence: Opportunities and Challenges in Indonesia.” He began by outlining the concept of Human Rights Due Diligence under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), with a specific focus on Pillar II: the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights (Principles 11–24). He emphasized that companies are expected to operationalize these principles through a risk-based HRDD process to identify, prevent, mitigate, and address human rights risks within their operations and supply chains.

Further, Unang explained how companies can integrate international frameworks such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct by embedding the OECD’s six-step due diligence model into their HRDD systems. This approach enables businesses to address risks across key themes, including human rights, labor, environmental protection, disclosure, anti-corruption, consumer interests, technology, competition, and taxation.

The presentation also highlighted the implications of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) 2024, which mandates companies to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence across upstream and downstream value chains. According to Unang, alignment with the Directive requires meaningful stakeholder engagement, the identification and investigation of severe risks, the establishment of remediation mechanisms, and the integration of climate transition planning and civil liability considerations.

During the session, Dr. Mulkhan pointed to the importance of streamlining sectoral compliance requirements with international human rights standards, ensuring coherence between local and national regulations. In this context, FIHRRST plays a strategic role in supporting companies through human rights policy development, HRDD implementation, capacity-building training, advisory services, and grievance mechanism design.

Dr. Mulkhan concluded by presenting three key recommendations: for businesses, to integrate HRDD across core operations; for government, to align regulations and provide clear national guidance; and for industry associations, to standardize tools and strengthen supplier capacity to advance responsible business conduct in Indonesia.