NEWS & EVENT

To support all women to be a leader and have equal career opportunity at the workplace, Magdalene.co and Indonesia Business Coalition for Women Empowerment (IBCWE) held the Women Lead Forum 2021 (WLF). During two days (04/7-8), this event presents 12 speakers with an interesting discussion topic about gender equality at the workplace, with hashtag #KantorDukungPerempuan to highlight the event.

One of the speakers of the Women Lead Forum 2021 discussion panel is Wulan Tilaar as the Director of Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa, a unit business of Martha Tilaar Group. In this opportunity, Wulan talks about Martha Tilaar Group constant effort, especially Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa, to support women's empowerment and encourage them to have good progress in their careers.   

According to Wulan, Dr.(H.C) Martha Tilaar has a clear vision, mission, and value to support women empowerment, therefor most of Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa is women. On her lead, Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa always gives the same opportunity for women to work and to express their potential self on every level.

“For example, besides providing their rights, we also have a shifting system that will facilitate women to be more flexible in running their domestic role. We facilitate them with hard skill training to be a professional spa therapist, and also soft skill training in collaboration with GAP Inc. that consists of communication skills, problem-solving, stress management, financial literacy, and time management. We expect it will support their life,” said Wulan.

Not only facilitate training for their employee, along with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Martha Tilaar Group, Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa also give training for women community such as Vocational High School or dropout students who want to be spa therapist, training with APP Sinar Mas –including medicine, cosmetic, aromatic plants planting in Bilebante village, and encourage teenagers at Tepi Hutan Community to follow jamu gendong training and to become a spa therapist.

“A simple comment like ‘now I know' from these girls means a lot to me. It indicates we helped them to understand what they need, not what they want, and help to make their financial to be more established, so they eventually will be able to manage their life,” said Wulan when the moderator askes the impact of the training that Martha Tilaar Salon Day Spa gave to the community.

The latest project is the collaboration between Martha Tilaar Group with Indonesian and German governments to run a program called Innovation and Investment for the Inclusive Sustainable Economy Development. With BAPPENAS and GIZ as the executors, Martha Tilaar Group gives spa therapist training, management and entrepreneur skill, and organic field management in Bilebante for the development of Bilebante Tourism Village, which is expected will bring significant economic impact for the community.