Paperworks and Paperworks

Dear all,

Other than Media Monitoring and Festive Decorations, Sarawak Oil Palm Berhad (SOPB) focused on their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programs as well. As a locally owned business that mainly operated at Sarawak, SOPB put priority on the local communities. They introduced several CSR programs to grow together with local communities, especially areas around planned estates.

The CSR program that I involved during my internship period was named Young Achiever’s Award and Student Adoption Program (namely YAA & SAP). SOPB provided monetary support and non-monetary support (such as school bag and pencil case) to eligible students from the schools that around our estates.

After my executive explained the progresses and requirements of YAA & SAP to me, my first task was updated the detailed list by research the school name, school address and school’s contact person. December was the month that receiving the acknowledge receipts and application forms from the schools. I need to arrange the acknowledge receipts according to the regions as well as alphabets. Other than key in the student details into excel form, my supervisors allowed me to filter the applicants based on my judgment during initial procedure.

Besides that, I also been asked by my supervisor to do research on possible analysts, research their email address and phone number from the website, online documents, banks’ investor relations and their LinkedIn account. This research gave me an opportunity that exercise my judgment on whether the information that I found are updated version or not. 

In my next blog, I will focus more on event planning of SOPB. Stay tuned and have a nice day!

Warmest Regards,

Chung Jia Yiing

17136837 / 7e2a1122

Curtin University Sarawak, Malaysia

A Challenging Start with SOPB

Dear All,

Hello! My name is Chung Jia Yiing or you guys can just call me Caslyn! I am majoring in Public Relations and Management at Curtin University Sarawak. During my 3 months internship period, I will keep on update my blog together with Sarawak Oil Palm Berhad (SOPB).

As mentioned above, I am working with SOPB, the key player in the Sarawak’s oil palm industry. Since 1968, SOPB expand their business activities to different fields, which closely related to the oil palm. Throughout these few years, SOPB able to stand still as a market leader among their rivalry with the support of efficiency management team.

Figure 1: Sarawak Oil Palm Berhad in the early morning.

The first day of my internship is the final day of my senior, Jaafar. He finished his 20 days internship and pass me his role as a PR intern. After a short introduction, my assistant manager had a quick interview with me. He raised some concerns on me but both of us seems positive to my performance in the future. I really thankful that they are willing to accept me as an intern because I am not familiar with some professional software. However, I believe that I am a fast learner and able to adopt changes in the fast-pacing environment.

Figure 2: My PR Department! 

The first job given to me was to prepare the Christmas’s decoration wordings as Christmas is just around the corner.

Figure 3: The "Christmas" glitter is everywhere!

We took few days to get ready all the decorations and accessories. The photos below show the different decorations at different HQ.

Figure 4: Christmas decorations made up by recycle materials are placed at HQ 1.

Figure 5: Snowball for sale at HQ 2.

Figure 6: A small Christmas tree on my working desk.

Other than involving the set up of decorations, I also involve in SOPB's Corporate Social Responsibility activities, which are Young Achiever Award and Student Adoption Program. SOPB shows their responsibilities by give back to the society. Students with excellent academic performances as well as the extra-curriculum are qualified to deserve their rewards from the company. I had been assigned to do research on the information on schools nearby our estates in order to enhance the usability of our CSR activities. Besides that, I am glad that have an opportunity to learn photography skills from a photographer with more than 8 years’ experience! I am enjoying my time of acquiring image with professional camera. That’s all the first week of my internship with SOPB! 

December is a month of blessing. I wish you all a very merry Christmas!

Warmest Regards,

Chung Jia Yiing

17136837 / 7e2a1122

Curtin University Sarawak, Malaysia