Noke Kiroyan

Noke Kiroyan

Noke Kiroyan is chief executive officer and chief consultant of PT Komunikasi Kinerja (Kiroyan Partners), a Jakarta-based public affairs consulting company he established in 2006. Among his other current positions, he is president commissioner of mining logistics firm PT Bis industries (subsidiary of Bis Industries Limited in Perth, Australia), chairman of the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce for Indonesia, and commissioner (non-executive director) of gold-silver mining company Agincourt Resources, a subsidiary of EMR Capital in Melbourne, Australia.

Business sustainability needs to be understood as ground-level pragmatism as opposed to lofty moral principles if it is to drive business.

What makes a business sustainable? There is a question that companies and observers alike have lately been asking amidst the surging criticisms that dismiss business sustainability as trite and meaningless. The term ‘sustainability’...