Fully committed to environmental protection, CIMB Niaga honors it with numerous activities for local communities. These include conserving and preserving bamboo in a sustainable way in order to generate positive economic, social and ecological impacts on people.

CIMB Niaga's Bamboo Preservation and Conservation Community partnered with Biodiversity Foundation (Kehati) to run a joint Community Empowerment-based Tabah Bamboo Conservation Program in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). Conserving tabah bamboo (Gigantocloa niglociliata) involved planting seedlings and building the capacity of farmers who work fields within the Specially-Designated Forest (KHDTK) of Rarung in Central Lombok. KHDTK covers an area of 325 hectares and is placed under the management of NTB Agency for the Research and Development of Non-Timber Forest Products. For the capacity building phase of the project, a team of tabah bamboo experts from the Bamboo Research Center of Udayana University in Bali worked closely with and assisted members of participating farmer groups with different aspects of bamboo farming, from proper understanding of cultivation to post-harvest processing of shoots.

Tabah bamboo planting offers many economic and social benefits, and it helps communities to enjoy improved economic welfare. The project itself has been recognized as a model for local agroforestry development as it helps supply the markets with timber wood and crops from plants with high economic value, including candlenut, vanilla, coffee and varieties of fruit. With the CIMB Niaga-supported planting of 3,700 tabah bamboo seedlings in 2018, the region is now greener and more biodiverse.

The bamboo planting initiatives started in 2011 in several regions all over Indonesia. The first project of greening Taman Kehati in Renon, Bali, with some 200 bamboo seedlings was followed by another growing 500 trees in Taman Kehati, on Mount Merapi. An additional 10,000 were planted in West Java, and another 10,000 betung bamboo trees in the Village of Wago in Flores.