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Update from Indonesia: This is what APP’s new sustainability commitments look like

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Check out this account by By Bustar Maitar, Head Of Greenpeace’s campaign to save Indonesia’s forests-

Asia Pulp and Paper has spent the last few weeks telling customers around the world that the company’s latest sustainability pledges mean that this time, the changes the company has announced are genuine.  To the untrained eye new pledges to stop forest clearance in limited areas and plans to only source from plantations can sound promising.

But today in Indonesia, as part of Greenpeace’s latest ‘Tigers’ Eyes Tour’ Greenpeace Indonesia and WALHI (Indonesian Environmental Forum) activists, along with Robi, lead singer of famous Balinese grunge band, Navicula, came across the fresh clearing in the middle of a plantation run by PT Asia Tani Persada. Continue reading →

Photo of the Month – May 2012

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The May 2012 Photo of the Month by Melvinas Priananda ties Indonesian rainforest destruction to one of the world’s largest purveyors of fast food. KFC is part of Yum! Brands Inc.,  which claims to be the world’s largest restaurant company.

Taken on recently cleared and drained rainforest peatland on the island of Sumatra, the giant fast food bag goes to ground zero in a global campaign to convince KFC to stop using throwaway packaging made by destroying the Indonesian rainforest. Continue reading →

APP customers start to take action as we deliver evidence to police in Indonesia

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By Zul Fahami, Greenpeace Indonesia Forest Campaign Director

Illegal ramin logs identified at APP's Indah Kiat Perawang pulp mill

Illegal ramin logs identified at APP's Indah Kiat Perawang pulp mill

It’s been a momentous 24 hours since we released the results of our investigation into Asia Pulp and Paper’s illegal timber scandal. While we in Greenpeace are best known for our direct actions, it’s our investigation work that provides the foundation to expose these environmental crimes. Our Indonesian forest campaign is no different and with APP so adamant that it has ‘zero tolerance for illegal timber’ we knew we had to go to the heart of this issue and uncover the reality.

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Asia Pulp & Paper in illegal rainforest scandal

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by Bustar Maitar, Greenpeace Indonesia

APP: “Zero tolerance for illegal wood.” – @AsiaPulpPaper

These are the five words that say a lot but apparently mean little to a company that has made a mantra out of repeating something which is simply not true.  And today, we’ve released proof that what APP says is wrong – the results of a yearlong investigation uncovering how APP is systematically violating Indonesia’s laws which protect ramin, an internationally protected tree species under CITES. Continue reading →