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The APRIL conglomerate and its brands. Photo: EPN
Sectors Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
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Ownership

APRIL is part of the Indonesian Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE), owned by Indonesian businessman Sukanto Tanoto, who also owns Toba Pulp Lestari, Sateri, and Asian Agri. Royal Golden Eagle is a holding company which has activities ranging from paper, palm oil, construction, and energy business sectors. It also owns palm oil firm Asian Agri.

Subsidiaries
Asia Symbol – China
Riau Andalan Kertas - Riaupaper – Indonesia
Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP or Riaupulp) – Indonesia
Website http://www.aprilasia.com/

About APRIL

Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) is Indonesia's second largest pulp and paper producer. It develops fibre plantations and owns of one of the world's largest pulp and paper mills. APRIL mainly produces bleached hardwood kraft pulp and uncoated, wood-free paper. APRIL is the world’s second largest producer of bleached hardwood kraft pulp. In addition to its own paper production, the company’s pulp is used by paper companies in China, Korea, Indonesia, India, Japan, and Europe.

APRIL is based in Singapore, and is part of the Royal Golden Eagle group (RGE), which includes a large number of affiliated paper companies.

APRIL’s paper products are sold in over 75 countries globally under a variety of brands such as: PaperOne, A Plus, APRIL Premium, ARIA, Ace, All Pass, Artica, Ascend, Asia Symbol, Asiabase, Brand names: B/K, Baishun, Board One, Combat King, Copy & Laser, Crystal, Dunia Mas, Enjoy, Excellent Copy, Gaopinle, Gold Bo, Golden Color, Lazer IT, Noval, PK King Kong, Perfect Print, Pioneer, Premium (Inkjet, Laser, Pre-print+, Script, Riaupulp Acacia, Riaupulp MTH, SSYMB Pulp, Tinkle, To Crown, Ya Wen, Zap.  (EPN forest products database).

The company’s primary mills are in Indonesia and China, including subsidiary Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper, which operates one of the world’s largest paper mills in Riau Province, Sumatra. APRIL’s fibre is sourced primarily from Indonesia and Latin America.

Companies directly associated with APRIL include: APRIL Fine Paper Trading Pte Ltd, APRIL Fine Paper Trading Ltd., LwarcelCelulose, Bracell, Alkira Trading (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited, Asia Symbol, AP Enterprises (Macao) Commercial Offshore Limited, Primeyield Enterprise Pte Ltd, APRIL Fine Paper Macao Commercial Offshore Limited, APRIL Fine Paper (Guangdong) Co. Ltd.,  Shandong Asia Pacific SSYMB Pulp and Paper, Suzhou Industrial Park Asia Pacific Paper Converting, Suzhou Ascend Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.  (Source: EPN forest products database)

Other companies controlled by APRIL owner Sukanto Tanoto, include Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL), Sateri and Asia Pacific Rayon (APR). TPL is involved in social conflicts with indigenous Batak people in North Sumatra, for converting their ancestral forests that provided them clean watersheds and shelter, medicine, food, and livelihoods. Sateri is the world’s largest producer of viscose staple fibre (VSF), based in China. APR produces rayon for Sateri, in a “fully integrated viscose rayon producer in Asia from plantation to viscose fibre” inside the APRIL mll of Kerinci. (Source: EPN forest products database)

Latest developments

ABN AMRO exposed to risk for financing APRIL

2019-06-10 00:00:00

NGOs publish Performance Verification Criteria and Indicators

2017-12-31 00:00:00

Why this profile?

Since its forestry activities started in 1993, APRIL has a long history of social and environmental impacts. APRIL is involved in hundreds of social conflicts, human rights abuses, and the clearing of biodiverse rainforests in Indonesia. The company is considered one of the main companies responsible for the current haze crisis in the country. In 2015, after many years of campaigning to stop deforestation by APRIL and after many brands started to avoid their products, APRIL announced a new Sustainable Forest Management Policy. However, the company has since defaulted on these commitments. 

What must happen

Banks and other financial institutions should not provide any new financing for APRIL, its brands and/or affiliated companies, and should divest any investments in the company, until it is proven and verified that it has made meaningful changes across its business operations. Buyers and investors should avoid brands and papers linked to APRIL, Royal Golden Eagle, and its affiliated paper companies. 

Impacts

Social and human rights impacts

Since the beginning of its forestry activities in 1993, APRIL has a long history of social impacts and human rights abuses. Indigenous people and other local communities have been continuously impacted by APRIL’s forest conversion. Communities that rely on cultivating rubber, sago, and other crops within the forest landscape have been at issue with APRIL since 2009, including on Riau’s Kampar Peninsula and coastal islands, causing some residents to resort to drastic protest measures, including sewing their mouths shut.

Despite a new policy that commits APRIL and its suppliers to respect Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and to resolve all its social conflicts, there has been little change for communities embroiled in land disputes with the company. Hundreds of land conflicts remain. APRIL has failed to involve affected communities and other key stakeholders in the identification, analysis and resolution of these conflicts. According to APRIL, just one supplier (PT RAPP) and its partners have 880 unresolved conflicts, involving at least (in the few known cases) 21,000 hectares of land.

In April 2014, Eyes on the Forest documented apparent child labor at the timber plantation of PT Triomas (an APRIL supplier), in violation of national legislation and international standards.

Environmental and climate impacts

Deforestation APRIL started its forestry activities in 1993 and commercial pulp production in 1998. Since then, it has expanded its business and its paper production has grown at the cost of Indonesian rainforests. The conversion of natural rainforests into tree plantations inevitably reduces the habitat of species, driving them to extinction. In 2005 APRIL started to clear the precious rainforests of Bukit Tigapuluh and Kerumutan landscapes, one of the last habitats of the Sumatran Tiger.

In 2013, FSC “dissociated” itself from APRIL for “being involved in large-scale deforestation activities in Indonesia and bringing negative social and environmental impacts to areas with high conservation values.”

In June 2015, after many years of campaigning to stop deforestation by APRIL and after many brands started to avoid their products, APRIL announced a Sustainable Forest Management Policy version 2.0 (SFMP 2.0). However, APRIL’s implementation of its own commitments has been unsatisfactory.

Violations of the company's zero-deforestation commitment were discovered soon after the new policy had been issued. NGOs have found that APRIL has been sourcing from plantation companies involved in deforestation. Since the adoption of its SFMP 2.0 commitment in 2015, the PT Adindo Hutani Lestari has ranked among the five largest suppliers of pulpwood to APRIL’s pulp mill operating company, PT Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP). Between 2015 and 2019, PT RAPP purchased over 2.3 million m3 of pulpwood from Adindo. Spatial analysis using satellite imagery indicates that within Adindo’s concession area an estimated 7,291 hectares of natural forest was cut down between June 2015 and August 2020, a majority of this forest loss has been on peatlands (over 50%, or 3,790 hectares). In November 2018, APRIL supplier PT Tanjung Redeb Hutani (TRH), was found still clearing the equivalent of 190,000 football fields to expand its pulpwood plantations in East Kalimantan.

In June 2020, an investigation conducted by the Indonesian NGO network Jikalahari identified a plan by APRIL to clear natural forests near the Dayun Village, Kabupaten Siak & Palalawan, province of Riau, Sumatra. According to the investigation, APRIL’s subsidiary PT RAPP is clearing an area of swamp-forest on thick peat, with a depth of more than 3 metres, on areas customarily belonging to local communities. The company cleared both community-owned palm oil plantations and young - however dense - forest stands, over an area of 675 hectares. Traces indicate that the area is a habitat for wildlife animals such as tigers, bears, and pigs.

As part of APRIL’s plan to expand access to land beyond its own concessions, the company allegedly resorted to setting up a “cooperative” to access community land and illegally clear peat swamp forests. In 2017, this cooperative (called Koto Intuok Cooperative) submitted a request for a permit to operate near the Pulau Padang Village, located in Sumatra, which included a plan to clear-cut natural forest on peatland. In 2018, the “cooperative” was granted 1,565 hectares of land. The exploitation has not started yet, but if it goes ahead, the activity would affect the ecosystem of the Bukit Rimbang Bukit Baling Wildlife Sanctuary, in a clear violation of APRIL’s own policy.

Forest Fires In autumn 2015, APRIL was identified as one of the top companies responsible for the fires occurring in Indonesia, burning 2.6 million hectares of plantations, forests and peatlands throughout Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua. An estimated 1.75 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide was released in just a few months, more than Germany's or Japan’s total annual emissions. Daily emissions during the peak weeks of the fires exceeded the daily fossil fuel emissions of the entire USA economy. The fires created a smoke and haze crisis affecting all of South East Asia, triggering national emergencies across Indonesia and into Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, resulting in diplomatic tensions between Indonesia and its neighbouring countries. The human cost was terrible: 19 people died and an estimated 500,000 cases of respiratory tract infections were reported at the time of the fires.

In response to the 2015 fires, the Government of Indonesia issued regulations restricting the development of new plantation areas on drained peatlands and, in some areas, requiring the protection and rehabilitation of peatlands.

Greenhouse gas emissions Despite APRIL claiming to manage its plantations on peat according to “best management practices”, these practices have been shown to insufficiently curb drainage effects in the long term. According to a scientific field study based on APRIL’s concessions in Indonesia, the release of CO2 from an acacia plantation on peat has been identified as around 80 tonnes per year per hectare. APRIL's supplier plantation on peat is more than 265,000 hectares. As a result, APRIL’s plantations emit 19.4 million tonnes GHG, nearly as much as emissions from Slovenia, and as much as 24 low emitting countries combined. In 2017, the company has also been repeatedly sanctioned for violations of the new peat legislation and tried to avoid official inspections on its concessions areas. When in October 2017 the government declared the work-plan of APRIL's major and biggest subsidiary and plantation company (PT RAPP) invalid, APRIL responded by bullying the government, threatening mass firing to mobilize workers against the government, and suing the government itself with a court case that APRIL eventually lost. This highlights APRIL's reluctance to protect and conserve peatland areas.

Other impacts

Transparency According to an investigative report, based on the Panama Papers APRIL has shuffled billions of dollars through a web of offshore companies stretching from the Cook Islands in the South Pacific to the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. This resulted in receiving financing from banks despite being involved in the forest fires in Indonesia.

Expansion of production Despite a commitment to keep any increase of its production within the availability of sustainable fibre to source them, APRIL continued expanding beyond that capacity, including development of a dissolving pulp production line at APRIL’s Kerinci mill complex with a possible capacity of 350,000 tons per year. APRIL is also developing the Kutai Chip Mill (KCM), which supplies wood chips to its sister company Asia Symbol in China, processing up to one million tonnes of wood.

Expansion by acquisitions In September 2018, APRIL/RGE completed the take over of the Brazilian pulp producer Lwarcel Celulose (250,000 tpy). The company plans a further expansion of its production capacity of 750,000 tpy including a new pulp mill in Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) that could lead to further deforestation in the region.

Indonesian and International NGOs have been monitoring APRIL's developments and have become more sceptical in the process. In December 2016, both Greenpeace and WWF broke off their engagement with APRIL, following the discovery of three kilometers of canals through deep peat on Padang Island off the eastern coast of Sumatra. This was in violation of its own sustainability standards, government regulations and a letter of instruction issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry the previous year asking companies to block existing canals. APRIL remains dissociated from the certification standard FSC.

For more detailed analysis of APRIL’s social and environmental risk and its violations of its 2014 forest policy, see this February 2015 Fact Sheet from the European Environmental Paper Network.

Governance

In 2013, the Forest Steward Council (FSC) had  “dissociated” itself from APRIL, on account of APRIL “being involved in large-scale deforestation activities in Indonesia and bringing negative social and environmental impacts to areas with high conservation values.”

Updates

ABN AMRO exposed to risk for financing APRIL

2019-06-10 00:00:00

Despite continued deforestation, ABN AMRO continues to “engage”, with APRIL, while doing business with the company. In December 2018, ABN AMRO was part of a large new syndicated loan to APRIL.

NGOs publish Performance Verification Criteria and Indicators

2017-12-31 00:00:00

In December 2017, various NGOs published Evaluating the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance of Sinar Mas Group (SMG) and Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Companies Criteria and Indicators for Assessing and Verifying Performance to set specific measurable performance requirements and independently verify the on-the-ground performance of APP, APRIL and affiliates. These Performance Verification Criteria and Indicators have been developed to provide a clear framework for APP/Sinar Mas and the APRIL/Royal Golden Eagle groups to be measured against, so that companies and other stakeholders can adequately evaluate performance. In addition, these Criteria and Indicators will inform the critical Forest Stewardship Council process of developing “Roadmaps” toward a possible reversal of their disassociation of APP and APRIL.

Companies Criteria and Indicators for Assessing and Verifying Performance

2017-12-16 00:00:00

In December 2017, various NGOs published a new document, Evaluating the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance of Sinar Mas Group (SMG) and Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Companies Criteria and Indicators for Assessing and Verifying Performanceto set specific measurable performance requirements and independently verify the on-the-ground performance of APP, APRIL and affiliates.  These Performance Verification Criteria and Indicators have been developed to provide a clear framework for APP/Sinar Mas and the APRIL/Royal Golden Eagle groups to be measured against, so that companies and other stakeholders can adequately evaluate performance. In addition, these Criteria and Indicators will inform the critical Forest Stewardship Council process of developing “Roadmaps” toward a possible reversal of their disassociation of APP and APRIL. 

APRIL's tax avoidance linked to deforestation and banks

2017-11-24 00:00:00

The 'Paradise Papers', 13.4 million files leaked from offshore law firm Appleby, demonstrate how global corporations move money to tax havens to avoid taxes and other government regulations. Early November, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (ICIJ) published a report based on the Paradise Papers that analyzes Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) and its lenders, leading to more questions about whether banks follow their own sustainability policies and how global corporations may use tax engineering to increase funds available for deforestation. These questions arose as an APRIL's subsidiary, PT RAPP, as reported by Bloomberg, seeks a USD 500 million loan. On November 24, 30 Indonesian NGOs urged APRIL's financiers to not support APRIL and to disengage from any existing support or investment (see here for the full news article).

ABN AMRO lending to APRIL despite own commitment

2017-01-11 00:00:00

It was understood that ABN AMRO was involved in May 2016 in providing a syndicated loan to APRIL for USD 800 million, together with a number of other banks based in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, UAE and Dubai. This is despite the bank having informed Greenpeace in March 2015 that they would not finance new loans to APRIL until the company had stopped deforestation and proved that it can work sustainably (see earlier updates). Meanwhile Greenpeace and WWF last month walked away from APRIL's Stakeholder Advisory Committee, while Indonesian groups Jikalahari and JMGR have written to both ABN AMRO and Credit Suisse raising concerns that APRIL is failing to implement its recent sustainability policy.

Greenpeace and WWF break off their engagement with APRIL

2016-12-31 00:00:00

In December 2016, both Greenpeace and WWF broke off their engagement with APRIL, with the final straw being the discovery of 3km of canals through deep peat on Padang Island off the eastern coast of Sumatra, in violation of its own sustainability standards, government regulations and a letter of instruction issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry the previous year asking companies to block existing canals. APRIL remains dissociated from the certification standard FSC.

Two APRIL super concessions have been frozen

2016-04-14 00:00:00

Two APRIL super concessions have been frozen by the Environmental and Forests Ministry because of their involvement in the forest and peat fires. Read more here and here.

New Sustainable Forest Management Policy

2015-06-08 00:00:00

APRIL has announced a new Sustainable Forest Management Policy which includes an immediate moratorium on logging in natural forests. The move comes after an intensive campaign by a group of environmental organisations, focused on pressuring both the company and its financiers to address the company's long standing social and environmental conflicts. Read more here.

Credit Suisse put future finance for APRIL under review

2015-04-24 00:00:00

In response to questions from representatives of the Bruno Manser Fund, Bank Track and Greenpeace, Credit Suisse's Chief Risk Officer confirmed the bank has engaged with APRIL  and has placed future finance for the company under review. The minutes state: "Mr. Jo Oechslin [the Chief Risk Officer] expressed his deep concern and applauded the courage and commitment of the visitors, who had come all the way from Indonesia, in their battle for their rights. It was correct that CS had received a funding request from APRIL in 2013 and had given a positive response along with a series of conditions. Progress was subsequently made. APRIL had had its operations certified, had improved its internal policies and processes and formed an independent committee together with NGO representatives. Admittedly, APRIL had subsequently made mistakes which had also been discussed in detail with CS representatives. Since that time, no transactions with APRIL had been assessed or executed, and Mr. Oechslin gave his assurance that no future transactions would be conducted with APRIL in the future without his personal involvement and explicit approval."

First Santander and then ABN Amro refuse to renew loans to APRIL

2015-03-09 00:00:00

ABN AMRO will not provide APRIL with new loans until the Indonesian pulp and paper company stops clearing rainforests and can prove that it is operating in a sustainable way. The bank has also called on APRIL to immediately stop the destruction of Indonesian rainforests. ABN AMRO communicated this decision to Greenpeace Netherlands last Friday, March 6th. At the same time it posted a declaration on its website on its dedication to nature conservation. The bank's move follows a similar announcement from the Spanish bank Santander. On February 25th, Santander made a public statement in which it said that it had "decided to not renew the current funding to APRIL and will not be extending further funding at this stage". ABN AMRO's move comes after months of negotiations led by Greenpeace and supported by Banktrack and the Environmental Paper Network. ABN AMRO has now declared it will continue talks with the NGOs in order to further improve its policies to ensure that it will no longer finance rainforest destruction in the future.

Financiers

Note: Santander and ABN AMRO both committed in March 2015 not to provide new loans to APRIL until it had addressed its involvement in deforestation. Shortly afterwards, Credit Suisse announced it had placed its funding under review. In May 2016 it emerged ABN AMRO had resumed lending to APRIL.

More updated information on financiers of APRIL and RGE is available via the Forests and finance database (flagging "Royal Golden Eagle Group").

Information on financiers APRIL / RGE financiers is also available on forests & finance (see "Royal Golden Eagle Group").

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Credit Suisse breaching its own forest policy by financing Indonesian rainforest devastation

New BankTrack analysis reveals finance for RGE Group breaks all six of the Swiss bank’s exclusion rules
2015-03-17 | Nijmegen
blog
external news
our news

Credit Suisse vergibt 50-Millionen-Kredit an Regenwaldzerstörer APRIL

2015-03-10 | Greenpeace Switzerland
blog
external news
our news

3M, Banks Pressure APRIL Over Deforestation

2015-03-09 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Umstrittener Credit Suisse Kredit fur Papiergigant

2015-03-08 | Sonntagszeitung
blog
external news
our news

ABN AMRO geeft APRIL een rode kaart (ABN AMRO gives APRIL a red card)

2015-03-06
blog
external news
our news

ABN AMRO is dedicated to nature conservation

2015-03-06 | ABN AMRO
blog
external news
our news

ABN AMRO geeft APRIL een rode kaart (ABN AMRO gives APRIL a red card)

2015-03-06
blog
external news
our news

The Bigger Picture: Conservation and Eco-Restoration Sits Alongside Production Forestry In Indonesia

2015-02-25 | APRIL
blog
external news
our news

GREENPEACE UK ACTION: SANTANDER'S LENDING POLICY, SPECIFICALLY WITH REGARDS TO DEFORESTATION

2015-02-25 | Santander
blog
external news
our news

Santander Bank cuts off APRIL due to deforestation

2015-02-24 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Chinese banks funding rainforest destruction in Indonesia

2015-02-18 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Banks lend almost $2bn to “Indonesia’s biggest forest destroyer”

2015-02-17 | BankTrack Blog
blog
external news
our news

More Than 30 Percent of Wood Used by Indonesia's Industrial Forestry Sector Comes From Illegal, Unsustainable Sources

2015-02-17 | Forest Trends
blog
external news
our news

Santander: Stop Financing Extinction

2015-02-10 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Despite green promise, Indonesian forestry giant continues to destroy forests

2015-02-03 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

In pictures: APRIL's unhappy anniversary

2015-01-30
blog
external news
our news

Response to Greenpeace media statement

2015-01-29 | APRIL Dialog
blog
external news
our news
private

NGOs say APRIL's policy anniversary without real gain

2015-01-29 | WWF
blog
external news
our news

Pulau Padang Memanas, Warga Usir Eskavator PT RAPP

2015-01-06 | metroterkini
blog
external news
our news

Huge swath of forest in Indonesian Borneo slated for clearing by 'sustainable' company

2014-12-10 | Indonesia | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Call for banks to divest from APRIL

Social conflict and environmental destruction are rife in its operations
2014-12-10 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Mandy Haggith – Environmental Paper Network
blog
external news
our news

EoF files grievance report with APRIL’s Stakeholder Advisory Committee on violations of company policy

2014-11-20 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

KPMG assesses APRIL’s forest management

2014-08-30 | The Jakarta Post
blog
external news
our news

APRIL supplier continues deforestation, in breach of APRIL's policy

2014-07-21 | EPN
blog
external news
our news

El Banco Santander implicado en los incendios de la selva de Indonesia

2014-07-09 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

6 myths this Indonesian logger didn't want busted

2014-07-08 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Singapore logger continues peat clearance despite fire threat

2014-07-08 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia blames eight firms for fires affecting region

2014-06-21 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

Indonesian logger: cleared peat forest doesn't have high conservation value

2014-06-17 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

APRIL Makes A Mockery Of Its Own “Sustainable” Forest Policy

2014-06-12 | RAN
blog
external news
our news

APRIL's forest policy failing to stop rainforest destruction, say green groups

2014-06-06 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

PaperOne's environmental pledge sparks race to clear Sumatran forest

2014-05-30 | The Sydney Morning Herald
blog
external news
our news

APRIL violates its new sustainability policy in North Kalimantan

2014-05-20 | WWF
blog
external news
our news

APRIL signed a USD 265 million loan agreement

2014-04-25 | Reuters China
blog
external news
our news

APRIL continued destroying high conservation rainforest up until January pledge

2014-04-21 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

APRIL continues with forest destruction despite new sustainability policies

2014-03-25 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Revelations on illegal Indonesian logging sends clear message to governments and buyers

2014-03-22 | RAN
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia politician gets 14 years in jail for illegal permits, forest corruption

2014-03-13 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Indonesia politician gets 14 years in jail for illegal permits, forest corruption

2014-03-13 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

RAN Responds to Indonesian Pulp and Paper Giant's New Forest Policy

2014-01-29
blog
external news
our news

APRIL's "sustainability" policy a license to continue forest clearance

2014-01-28 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

APRIL takes its Sustainable Forest Management Polic y to a new level

2014-01-28 | AprilAsia
blog
external news
our news

Indonesian logger faces expulsion from business sustainability group

2014-01-17 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Business group WBCSD warns APRIL: clean up or get out

2014-01-17 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Singapore officials consider legal action against forest fire companies over the heaviest smog to ever cover the city

2013-06-22 | The Independent
blog
external news
our news

'The Sumatran rainforest will mostly disappear within 20 years'

2013-05-26 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

APRIL is now the leading driver of deforestation for pulp in Indonesia

2013-03-07 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Dozens arrested after community fights deforestation by paper company in Indonesia

2013-03-07 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

APRIL, Sumatra’s largest pulper of natural forest tangled over legality, social conflicts

2012-12-19 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

Ex forestry service imprisoned to 2.5 year for graft case

2012-10-25 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

FACTBOX-Indonesia's palm oil tycoons drive investment spree

2012-07-15 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

APRIL concessions protested by communities, one dies at APP site

2012-07-06 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

Ministry to sue 14 timber companies by civil case

2012-04-25 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

APRIL supplier PT SRL still fells Ramin in Rupat Island

2012-04-05 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

NGOs blast APRIL for violence

2012-03-16 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

APRIL - PXF financing

2012-03-07 | Trade Finance Magazine
blog
external news
our news

Extreme mouth-sewing protest in Indonesia leads to logging inquiry

2012-01-09 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

APRIL's supplier PT SRL protested in islands

2011-10-21 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

APRIL paper contains 80 pct rainforest, says a group

2011-08-21 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

Paper/Tiger

2011-08-02 | ABC Net
blog
external news
our news

KPK Vows to Pursue Logging ‘Cold Cases’

2011-05-19 | The Jakarta Globe
blog
external news
our news

EoF investigation: APRIL’s PT SRL destroys Ramin forest

2011-03-01
blog
external news
our news

WALHI releases Investigative Report on APRIL forest clearing

2009-12-23 | Eyes on the Forest
blog
external news
our news

Paper Industry Uses Violence and Destroys Tropical Forests in Indonesia

2009-08-08 | APRIL Watch
blog
external news
our news

Violent and Anti-Human Acts of PT Riau Andalan Pulp Paper

2006-05-16 | APRIL Watch
blog
external news
our news

Bank Mandiri probe debts rise to $1.3bn

2005-04-20 | Financial Times

Documents

Type:
Year:
ngo documents
2017-04-28 00:00:00

Too Much Hot Air

The failure of the Indonesian pulp and paper industry to reform its management of peatlands
2017-04-28 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
ngo documents
2020-10-06 00:00:00

Sustaining Deforestation: APRIL's links with PT Adindo Hutani Lestari undercut "No Deforestation" pledge

2020-10-06 00:00:00 | The Indonesian Forum for Environment, Eyes on the Forest, Environmental Paper Network, and others.
ngo documents
2020-09-28 00:00:00

APRIL Group Keeps Destroying Peatlands and Natural Rainforests Amid Covid-19

2020-09-28 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
ngo documents
2018-08-27 00:00:00

APP and APRIL violate zero deforestation policies

2018-08-27 00:00:00 | WWF
correspondence
2017-11-24 00:00:00

Letter from 30 Indonesian NGOs to PT RAPP financiers on current situation of PT RAPP (APRIL's main supplier)

2017-11-24 00:00:00 | 30 Indonesian NGOs
csr policies
2015-06-02 00:00:00

APRIL Group’s Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0

2015-06-02 00:00:00 | APRIL Group
correspondence
2016-12-28 00:00:00

Letter from Jikalahari & JMGR to ABN AMRO on APRIL failing to implement its own policy

2016-12-28 00:00:00 | Jikalahari & JMGR
correspondence
2016-11-14 00:00:00

Letter from Jikalahari & JMGR to Credit Suisse on APRIL failing to implement its own policy

2016-11-14 00:00:00 | Jikalahari & JMGR
ngo documents
2015-11-11 00:00:00

Ahead of COP Paris, two APRIL joint venture companies are clearing forested deep peatlands in the Kampar Peninsula Landscape

2015-11-11 00:00:00 | Greenomics
ngo documents
2015-10-12 00:00:00

Proven beyond doubt, APRIL continues to clear legally-established HCVF areas

2015-10-12 00:00:00 | Greenomics
ngo documents
2015-06-15 00:00:00

EU Investors, Land Grabs and Deforestation: Case-Studies

Briefing note
2015-06-15 00:00:00 | Fern
csr policies
2015-06-02 00:00:00

Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) Forestry, Fibre, Pulp & Paper Sustainability Framework

2015-06-02 00:00:00 | RGE
company documents
2015-06-01 00:00:00

Progress Report on Actions Taken by APRIL to address SAC Recommendations on SFM Policy Implementation

2015-06-01 00:00:00 | APRIL SAC
bank documents
2015-04-24 00:00:00

MINUTES - 2015 Annual General Meeting - CREDIT SUISSE GROUP AG

Friday, April 24, 2015, 10:30-13:50, Hallenstadion, Zurich-Oerlikon
2015-04-24 00:00:00 | Credit Suisse
other documents
2015-04-16 00:00:00

Letter to tennis star and Credit Suisse poster boy Rodger Federer, from Indonesian communities, asking for help to stop deforestation

2015-04-16 00:00:00 | Jikalahari and JMGR
ngo documents
2015-03-26 00:00:00

APRIL'ignores'its'own'sustainability'policy

2015-03-26 00:00:00 | Greenomics
ngo documents
2015-03-25 00:00:00

United Nations'2015 International Day of Forests Theme: “Forests / Climate / Change”.

2015-03-25 00:00:00 | World Rainforest Movement
our publications
2015-03-17 00:00:00

How Credit Suisse is breaching its policies and procedures in financing APRIL/RGE Group’s forest destruction

2015-03-17 00:00:00 | BankTrack
other documents
2015-03-16 00:00:00

Umstrittener Credit-Suisse-Kredit fur Papiergigant

Die Grossbank leiht einem indonesischen Konzern 50 Millionen US-Dollar entgegen ihrer eigenen Richtlinien
2015-03-16 00:00:00 | Simon Widmer, Sonntagszeitung
other documents
2015-03-08 00:00:00

Umstrittener Credit Suisse Kredit fur Papiergigant

Controversial Credit Suisse Credit for paper giant
2015-03-08 00:00:00 | Sonntagszeitung
ngo documents
2015-02-17 00:00:00

Indonesia's legal timber supply gap and implications for expansion of milling capacity

A review of the road map for the revitalization of the forest industry, Phase 1
2015-02-17 00:00:00 | Forest Trends and partners
correspondence
2015-02-10 00:00:00

Letter from APRIL to Banktrack on Banking with Principles

2015-02-10 00:00:00 | APRIL
correspondence
2015-02-10 00:00:00

Letter exchange between Banktrack and APRIL on the "Banking with Principles?" Report

2015-02-10 00:00:00 | Banktrack, APRIL
ngo documents
2015-01-28 00:00:00

First Commemoration - Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) APRIL

2015-01-28 00:00:00 | Jaringan Masyarakat Gambut Riau (JMGR)
ngo documents
2015-01-28 00:00:00

APRIL’s policy anniversary without real gain, NGOs say

2015-01-28 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
correspondence
2015-01-25 00:00:00

Letter from Banktrack to APRIL on Banking with Principle

2015-01-25 00:00:00 | Banktrack
ngo documents
2015-01-20 00:00:00

Update for Customers of RGE Group/APRIL

Deforestation continues - weak policy commitments broken
2015-01-20 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
company documents
2014-12-23 00:00:00

APRIL’s Response to SAC Recommendations

2014-12-23 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2014-12-18 00:00:00

PT Mayawana Persada, a company whose shareholders include an FSC certificate holder, plans to clear orangutan habitat and HCV areas for the development of pulpwood plantation

2014-12-18 00:00:00 | Greenomics
correspondence
2014-12-17 00:00:00

Letter from APRIL to Banktrack on Banking with Principles

2014-12-17 00:00:00 | APRIL
company documents
2014-12-10 00:00:00

Final SAC Recommendations on APRIL’s Sustainable Forest Management Policy Implementation

2014-12-10 00:00:00 | APRIL SAC
correspondence
2014-12-10 00:00:00

Letter from EPN to Banks investing in April on APRIL

2014-12-10 00:00:00 | EPN
ngo documents
2014-11-20 00:00:00

APRIL/RGE continues deforestation

PT. RAPP operations violate government regulations and its own sustainability policy in Pulau Padang, Riau, Su matra
2014-11-20 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
ngo documents
2014-07-30 00:00:00

Report on continued forest clearance by AHL

2014-07-30 00:00:00 | GAPETA Borneo, RPHK and WWF
correspondence
2014-06-06 00:00:00

Letter from RAN and partners to APRIL on need to improve policy

2014-06-06 00:00:00 | RAN and partners
ngo documents
2014-05-20 00:00:00

Natural Forest Clearance Continues on Deep Peat in APRIL Supplier Concession

2014-05-20 00:00:00 | wwf, GAPETA Borneo
company documents
2014-05-16 00:00:00

Forest Management Controlled Wood Certification Report of PT MHP

2014-05-16 00:00:00 | SGS
annual reports
2014-05-01 00:00:00

APRIL sustainability report 2013-2014

2014-05-01 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2014-04-24 00:00:00

APRIL clears high conservation value forest in Sumatra’s Kampar Peninsula, as it breaks its own commitment

2014-04-24 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
company documents
2014-04-11 00:00:00

Presentation: Sustainable Forest Management Policy

2014-04-11 00:00:00
ngo documents
2014-04-01 00:00:00

APRIL menebangi hutan bernilai konservasi tinggi di Semenanjung Kampar , melanggar komitmennya sendiri

2014-04-01 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
ngo documents
2014-03-18 00:00:00

SVLK Flawed: An independent evaluation of Indonesia's timber legality certification system

2014-03-18 00:00:00 | Anti Forest-Mafia Coalition (incl WWF, Walhi, Jikalahari and partners)
company documents
2014-01-28 00:00:00

Sustainable Forest Management Policy

2014-01-28 00:00:00
other documents
2014-01-17 00:00:00

Advisory note concerning APRIL Group’s membership of WBCSD and the Forest Solutions Group

2014-01-17 00:00:00 | WBCSD
ngo documents
2013-05-13 00:00:00

Complaint against APRIL to the FSC

2013-05-13 00:00:00 | WWF, Greenpeace, RAN
other documents
2013-04-12 00:00:00

Advisory note concerning the review of member company APRIL Group against the membership principles of the WBCSD Forest Solutions Group

2013-04-12 00:00:00 | WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development
ngo documents
2013-03-30 00:00:00

APRIL: Indonesia’s 2nd Largest Pulp & Paper Company is Making Paper Out of Tiger Rainforest

2013-03-30 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
ngo documents
2013-03-07 00:00:00

April trashing rainforest for pulp

Maps of deforestation
2013-03-07 00:00:00 | Greenpeace international
annual reports
2012-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2012

2012-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
company documents
2012-12-31 00:00:00

APRIL 2012 HCV commitment

2012-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2012-12-30 00:00:00

APRIL: Riau, Sumatra’s biggest forest pulper 2009 to 2012

2012-12-30 00:00:00 | Eyes on the forest
ngo documents
2012-05-01 00:00:00

Dutch private companies related to APP - Update

A research paper prepared for Greenpeace Nederland
2012-05-01 00:00:00 | Profundo
ngo documents
2012-05-01 00:00:00

Dutch private companies related to APP - Update

A research paper prepared for Greenpeace Netherlands
2012-05-01 00:00:00 | Profundo
ngo documents
2011-11-01 00:00:00

PT Sumatera Riang Lestari, a timber company affiliated to APRIL, clearcut natural forest in small island Pulau Rupat, Riau Province, in 2011 amid conflict with community

2011-11-01 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
ngo documents
2011-10-01 00:00:00

SUMATRA: Update on RAPP’s activities in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau

2011-10-01 00:00:00 | Forest Peoples Programs
ngo documents
2011-03-01 00:00:00

Natural forest clearance by PT Citr a Sumber Sejahtera, affiliated to APRIL, becomes evidence of the group’s broken promise for its commitment to forest protection

2011-03-01 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
annual reports
2010-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2010

2010-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
company documents
2010-12-31 00:00:00

APRIL 2010 HCV commitment

2010-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2010-12-05 00:00:00

WWF position on APRIL

2010-12-05 00:00:00 | WWF
ngo documents
2010-07-01 00:00:00

Business as Usual in Riau, Sumatra: Pulp Industry Continues Clearance of Natural Forest

2010-07-01 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
ngo documents
2010-05-20 00:00:00

Letter to APRIL

2010-05-20 00:00:00 | Forest Peoples Programme
ngo documents
2010-05-06 00:00:00

Letter to APRIL

2010-05-06 00:00:00 | Jikalahari and Greenpeace
annual reports
2008-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2008

2008-12-31 00:00:00
ngo documents
2007-01-01 00:00:00

Investigative Report August 2006

on the legality of APRIL concessions
2007-01-01 00:00:00 | Jikalahari, Walhi and WWF
annual reports
2006-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2006

2006-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2005-10-25 00:00:00

The financing of the Riau pulp producers Indah Kiat and RAPP

2005-10-25 00:00:00 | Profundo
ngo documents
2005-09-18 00:00:00

Assessment of legal aspects of the concession expansion plan by PT. RAPP in Kampar Peninsula and Padagn Island

2005-09-18 00:00:00 | Jikalahari
annual reports
2004-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2004

2004-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2004-10-01 00:00:00

Swedish involvement in the Indonesian paper and pulp industry

2004-10-01 00:00:00 | Profundo
annual reports
2002-12-31 00:00:00

Sustainability Report 2002

2002-12-31 00:00:00 | APRIL
ngo documents
2001-02-09 00:00:00

Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragons 2: APRIL Fools

The social and environmental impacts of APRIL & the paper merchants and financiers who have supported its destructive pulp and paper operations.
2001-02-09 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth

Media

Deforestation map on Pulau Pedang

APRIL

Recently deforested peatland inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) concession on Pulau Pedang, Riau Province, 05/30/2014. PT RAPP is a subsidiary of APRIL, the pulp & paper division of the RGE Group. 10'53 Recent large-scale clearance of peatland forest inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) concession on Pulau Pedang, Riau Province. 05/20/2014. 10'59 Drainage of peatland forest inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) pulpwood concession on Pulau Pedang, Riau Province.05/20/2014  11'53 Recent large-scale clearance of peatland forest inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) concession on Pulau Pedang, Riau Province. 05/20/2014. 10'59



Video links

http://streamstudio.world-television.com/CCUIv3/frameset.aspx?ticket=61-65-15645&target=en-default-&status=ondemand&browser=ns-0-0-0-17-0&stream=flash-video-500
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2011/10/201110257300740552.html

Links

Indonesia National Forest Monitoring System

http://nfms.dephut.go.id/monitoring/

Environmental Paper Network

http://www.environmentalpaper.eu/current-activities/pulp-mill-finance/

Global Forest Watch - Commodities

http://commodities.globalforestwatch.org/

Eyes on the Forest - map of Sumatra

http://maps.eyesontheforest.or.id/

APRIL Watch

http://aprilwatch.blogspot.it/

APRIL's blog

http://aprildialog.com/

Kita Institute, South Sumatra

https://hutaninstitute.or.id/

SPOTT - ESG policy transparency assessments

https://www.spott.org/timber-pulp/april-group/

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/april-asia-pacific-resources-international-limited

FSC Watch

https://fsc-watch.com/
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