Jakarta/Indonesia and Singapore, 10 February 2021 – Barry Callebaut Group, the world's leading producer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, announced the appointment of PT Sinarniaga Sejahtera ("SNS"), a subsidiary of PT Garudafood Putra Putri Jaya Tbk ("Garudafood"), one of the largest food and beverage companies in Indonesia, as a distributor of Van Houten Professional's sustainable compound chocolate products in Indonesia.
January 2021 - COVID-19, which has been classified as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), is still ongoing. Amidst the pandemic, Indonesia again faced a number of natural disasters since early 2021 which have caused material losses and fatalities. The landslide in Sumedang, West Java, on Saturday (9/1/2021), flood in South Kalimantan (14/1/2021), earthquake and landslide in West Sulawesi (15/1/2021), and flash flood in Bogor (19 /1/2021) have created new scars for Indonesia.