PT ASTRA INTERNATIONAL TBK 
By JAKARTA (Thursday, 25 April 2013): Today, PT Astra International Tbk ("Astra" or "the Company") held its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders ("the Meeting" or "the AGMS") and passed the following resolutions:
1. Meeting Agenda 1
Approved the Company's Annual Report for fiscal year 2012, including ratification of the Report of Board of Commissioners and the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements for fiscal year 2012, and granted a full release and discharge of responsibilities to each member of the Company's Board of Directors (BOD) and Board of Commissioners (BOC)
2. Meeting Agenda 2
Approved the allocation of the Company's net profit for fiscal year ended 31 December
2012 of IDR 19.4 trillion as follows:
a. to pay out IDR 8.7 trillion in cash dividend to shareholders, or IDR 216 per share, taking into account the interim dividend of IDR 66 per share thus the remaining IDR 150 per share will be paid on 7 June 2013 to the Company's shareholders whose names appear in the Company's Shareholder Register on 23 May 2013 at 16:00 hours Western Indonesia Standard Time; and
b. to record the remaining amount as the Company's retained earnings.
3. Meeting Agenda 3, among others:
Approved the resignation of Angky Tisnadisastra from the directorship of the Company and Kyoichi Tanada from the Company's Independent Commissioner position and appointed Hisayuki Inoue to serve as the Company's Independent Commissioner with a term of office until the end of the Company's AGMS in 2014, and thereby the Company's new Board of Directors and Board of Commissioners are as follows:
Board of Directors:
- President Director : Prijono Sugiarto
- Director : Gunawan Geniusahardja
- Director : Johnny Darmawan Danusasmita
- Director : Djoko Pranoto
- Director : Widya Wiryawan
- Director : Sudirman M. Rusdi
- Director : Simon Collier Dixon
- Director : Johannes Loman
Board of Commissioners:
- President Commissioner : Budi Setiadharma
- Independent Commissioner : Soemadi Djoko Moerdjono Brotodiningrat
- Independent Commissioner : Hisayuki Inoue
- Independent Commissioner : Erry Firmansyah
- Commissioner : Anthony John Liddell Nightingale
- Commissioner : Benjamin William Keswick
- Commissioner : Mark Spencer Greenberg
- Commissioner : Chiew Sin Cheok
- Commissioner : Jonathan Chang
- Commissioner : David Alexander Newbigging
4. Meeting Agenda 4
Granted authority to the Company's Board of Directors: to appoint one of the public accountant firms in Indonesia that is registered with the Financial Services Authority to audit the Company's financial statements for fiscal year 2013.
President Director of PT Astra International Tbk Prijono Sugiarto expressed his gratitude to all the stakeholders for lending their support to Astra throughout the Company's 56 years of operations, thus helping the Company improve its performance and pay out cash dividend of IDR 216 per share or IDR 8.7 trillion equals to 45% of the net profit.
Astra realized that the Company's business continuity in the long run is not only measured by its financial performance, but also by Astra's ability to manage its business portfolio, human resources as well as the social environment and the impact of Astra's existence as a business entity.
Therefore, since 2010, Astra has set its long-term growth strategies called Strategic Triple Roadmap - Portfolio Roadmap, People Roadmap and Public Contribution Roadmap.
Portfolio Roadmap: Strengthening the portfolio, developing synergy between lines of business, identifying the opportunities, having responsiveness and creativity in developing the business and anticipating less conducive external conditions by increasing efficiency and innovations in all areas. Astra Group has now grown into 173 companies, compared with 158 in late 2011.
People Roadmap: Preparing Astra's future leaders through talent mapping, people development with workshops and trainings as well as career development opportunities by refreshing the understanding and internalization of Astra's philosophy Catur Dharma among Astra people, and consistently reinforcing the implementation of Astra Management System (AMS) across Astra Group.
As the business thrives, the need for employees grows accordingly. As at end of 2011, Astra had a total of 168,703 employees; and today the number stands at 186,593 - increased by 17,890 or 10.6%. Astra's employees, 99.9% of whom are the nation's best sons and daughters, continually innovate to create flagship products that are not only absorbed by the domestic market but have also been exported overseas.
Public Contribution Roadmap: Astra's social responsibility programs, under the umbrella of SATU Indonesia (Astra's Unified Spirit for Indonesia), represent the real action of Astra Group and its eight foundations to play an active role in making contributions to improve the quality of Indonesian people. Through the integrated aspiration, innovation, and creation, Astra gives added value to the prosperity of the nation in the areas of Education, Environmental Conservation, Small & Medium Enterprise Development, and Health Care.
"Through its Strategic Triple Roadmap, Astra will build the stages of growth towards vision 2020 to become "Pride of the Nation". To Astra, to become a proud company of the nation means to have the ability to produce products and services that can stand out in the world market as well as to come forward as a respectable entity adored by all the stakeholders. Astra ought to be able to become a business group that can offer solutions to any problem in its surroundings - in Indonesia and in the vast world," Prijono said.
Jakarta, 25 April 2013
PT Astra International Tbk
Arief Istanto
Chief of Corporate Communications
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