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Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)Indonesia

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Last update: 2022-08-24 00:00:00
Area in APP's concessions. Photo: Rainforest Action Network/David Gilbert

Company – Active

This profile is actively maintained
Work partners:
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Contact:

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Last update: 2022-08-24 00:00:00
Why this profile?

Why this profile?

Asia Pulp and Paper has been long associated with massive deforestation, human rights abuses, harassment of local communities and colossal greenhouse gas emissions. APP is able to obscure such links by being part of a vast, complicated network of companies with an opaque corporate structure. Such a structure makes it easier to hide information that would be detrimental to APP, such as its deforestation record.

What must happen

Banks and other financial institutions should divest from and not provide any new financing for APP, its brands and/or affiliated companies, until it has been proven and verified that business operations have changed in a meaningful way. Buyers and investors should avoid products linked to APP, Sinar Mas, and Paper Excellence, as well as any Widjaja-owned sister companies.

About
Sectors Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Mills
Headquarters
Ownership

APP is part of the Sinar Mas Group. This large Indonesian conglomerate was founded in 1938 by Eka Tjipta Widjaja and it has remained a family business since his death in 2019.

Subsidiaries
Ekamas Fortuna – Indonesia
Lontar Papyrus Pulp & Paper Industry – Indonesia
Paper Excellence – Canada
Pindo Deli Pulp & Paper Mills – Indonesia
Power Construction Corporation of China – China
Tjiwi Kimia Paper Factory – Indonesia
Univenus – Indonesia
Website https://asiapulppaper.com/

Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is the pulp and paper subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group, which is one of the largest conglomerates in Indonesia. Sinar Mas mainly operates in the pulp and paper and palm oil sectors, but also has operations in real estate, financial services, agribusiness, healthcare, telecommunications and mining. One of the largest pulp and paper companies in the world, APP trades in 150 countries across six continents. APP products include textiles, stationery, printing and graphics papers, tissue, paper towels, shopping bags and packaging. The company is indirectly related to Canada’s paper conglomerate Paper Excellence; both are owned by the billionaire Widjaja family, who founded and own Sinar Mas.

Impacts

Impact on human rights and communities

Land conflicts and the displacement of communities have long been consequences of APP’s operations and expansion. Some of these conflicts have been managed with brutal violence, such as the deliberate destruction by police of an estimated 300 homes in the Sumatran village of Suluk Bongkal. This 2008 raid also claimed the lives of two children. In 2021, the village was once again targeted by security forces. Thirty villagers were violently removed from land that was grabbed for a eucalyptus plantation.

In February 2013, after widespread public criticism of the company, community opposition and pressure from customers and investors, APP released a Forest Conservation Policy. The policy set out how APP intended to remedy its legacy of destruction and conflict by establishing a full inventory of its many community disputes, reforming its practices and developing action plans. An independent Rainforest Alliance evaluation of these policies followed in February 2015, which concluded that APP had only made “moderate” progress towards these goals.

The 2019 “Conflict Plantations” report by a coalition of Indonesian organisations and the Environmental Paper Network found APP to be involved in hundreds of conflicts with communities across Sumatra and Kalimantan. In just five Indonesian provinces (Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra and both West and East Kalimantan), at least 107 villages or communities were in active conflict with APP affiliates or its suppliers. These conflicts included disputes about customary lands, livelihoods, subsistence crops, evictions, compensation and the lack of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for the development of pulp plantations. Furthermore, 544 villages were identified as sites of potential conflict, representing more than 2.5 million hectares of land; this equates to between USD 5.7 and 7.7 billion in social compensation risk.

The Rainforest Alliance received a submission about APP from a coalition of NGOs in 2019 that concluded the company had failed to involve key stakeholders in the identification, analysis and resolution of its social responsibility conflicts.

Child labour was discovered in APP’s supply chain in 2013. The Indonesian authorities discovered eight children aged between 16 and 18 working for Arara Abadi (Sinar Mas Forestry) in Sumatra’s Kerumutan forest.

Environmental activists have faced violence, intimidation and death as a result of APP-related conflicts. In March 2015, a farmer and activist named Indra Kailani was tortured and killed by security personnel in Jambi, Indonesia. These forces were employed by PT. Wirakarya Sakti, an APP-controlled supplier.

In 2020, villagers in Jambi accused the APP affiliate PT. Wirakarya Sakti of spraying herbicide from drones to remove evidence of land cultivation by local communities. Wirakarya Sakti also brought in security staff who shot into the air to intimidate villagers during data collection visits; Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) were used to silence the local community. During the same year, the APP-controlled company PT Arara Abadi silenced a protestor from Indonesia’s Riau province using the courts: A 58-year-old farmer from the Sakai Indigenous tribe named Bongku was imprisoned and fined USD 13,800 (around 70 months' wages) for planting sweet potato on his customary land, which Arara Abadi claimed as its own.

A public health crisis was triggered by fires set in 2015, which was traced back to companies including APP. The resulting smoke and haze affected the entirety of Southeast Asia, with national emergencies spreading from Indonesia to Singapore, Malaysia and beyond. Nineteen people died and an estimated 500,000 cases of respiratory tract infections were reported at the time. It is estimated that the fires led to more than 100,000 premature deaths in the region: A 2015 public health study estimated 91,600 premature deaths from exposure to fine particle pollution in Indonesia, 6,500 in Malaysia and 2,200 in Singapore. The cost of the fires was estimated to be USD 16 billion, equivalent to 1.9% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product.


Impact on climate

The mass clearing of peatlands by APP releases large amounts of carbon into earth’s atmosphere. Peatland is the most efficient carbon sink on the planet and therefore critically important for mitigating climate change. In 2017, it was estimated that 50 billion tonnes of carbon are held in Indonesia’s peat bogs. Indonesia’s pulp and paper industry has extensive tree plantations on drained and dried peatlands, including approximately 50% of APP's pulpwood suppliers. Draining and drying peatland causes oxidation and increases flammability, both of which lead to high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Between August 2018 and June 2020, APP actively cleared 3,500 hectares of Sumatran peatland and dug 53 kilometres of drainage canals. These activities directly breached APP’s own commitments to preserve and restore carbon-rich ecosystems and reduce its emissions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that, per hectare, a drained peatland growing acacia trees will emit approximately 70 tonnes of CO2 annually. Indonesia’s pulp plantations on peat soil therefore emit more than 80 million tonnes of CO2 annually, of which APP is responsible for 44 million tonnes.

Massive greenhouse gas emissions occurred during Indonesia’s 2015 fire and haze crisis, for which APP was identified as one of the top companies responsible. It was caused by the burning of 2.6 million hectares of plantations, forests and peatlands throughout Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua. According to the Global Fire Emissions Database, an estimated 1.75 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent was released in just a few months, which is more than Germany's or Japan’s total annual emissions. Daily emissions during the fires’ peak weeks exceeded the daily fossil fuel emissions of the USA’s entire economy.

The 2019 Indonesian forest fires emitted at least 708 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This figure is almost double the emissions of the Amazon’s 2019 fire season. Many of those fires emerged in pulpwood plantations and six of the biggest culprits supply APP.


Impact on nature and environment

Extensive clearing of natural forests and peatlands have long been hallmarks of APP’s operations. To address this, APP released a Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) in 2013. The policy commitments include engaging with local communities and halting all natural forest destruction in Indonesia, extended to all its suppliers. APP also committed to protecting High Conservation Value (HCV) areas and High Carbon Stock (HCS) forests, as well as to recognising Indigenous and local land rights. The FCP was cautiously welcomed by organisations including Greenpeace, WWF and the Rainforest Action Network, although it was also noted that much of APP’s forest land was already cleared.

Not only has APP failed to stick to the FCP commitments it made in 2013, but the company has intensified its illegal encroachment and intimidation of target villages. In 2018, Greenpeace reported that almost 8,000 hectares of forest and peatland linked through ownership to APP and Sinar Mas Group had been cleared since 2013. In 2019, a group including WWF reported that APP was sourcing wood from deforestation-linked plantation companies such as PT Fajar Surya Swadaya; this East Kalimantan company cleared nearly 20,000 hectares of natural forest between 2013 and 2019. In 2019, APP acknowledged ownership and supply chain linkages with problematic companies previously described as “independent”. A June 2020 Greenpeace report showed evidence of APP and its linked companies clearing 3,500 hectares of peatland between 2018 and 2020. An August 2022 Eyes on the Forest report provided evidence of APP’s PT Arara Abadi subsidiary clearing natural vegetation for acacia seedlings in HCV 1 areas, incorporating Sumatran elephant habitat and a UNESCO reserve.

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) disassociated from APP in 2007 “because of substantial, publicly available information that APP was involved in destructive forestry practices and was thus in violation of the Policy for Association.” APP later expressed its interest in rejoining, but the FSC suspended this process in 2018 due to allegations of unacceptable forest management activities. As of November 2021, APP remained disassociated from the FSC amid concerns regarding deforestation, destruction of HCVs, rights violations and illegal trading.


Other impacts

Financial mismanagement and huge debts are long-standing issues for APP and its subsidiaries. Creditors allege that APP has pursued a variety of tactics to delay and/or avoid repaying its debts: APP traded over USD 1 billion in debts through companies registered in the British Virgin islands; the company failed to announce losses of USD 220 million in two currency swaps that were initially unreported, which forced a reissue of APP’s financial statements; and APP allegedly used employees as bondholders to vote on a debt restructuring decision.

In 2001, APP defaulted on approximately USD 13.9 billion in loans, with some of its creditors only receiving a small fraction of their original investments. APP subsidiary Paper Excellence’s Northern Pulp mill was declared insolvent after petitioning for financial aid in June 2020, therefore avoiding the repayment of loans worth more than USD 85 million to the province of Nova Scotia. Paper Excellence also claimed that Northern Pulp owed it USD 213 million in debt.

Financiers

The financial institutions below have arranged corporate loans, revolving credit facilities, bond and share issuances and shareholding services for Sinar Mas, of which Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is a subsidiary.

In July 2021, APP’s sister company Paper Excellence “and its subsidiaries” secured financing worth an aggregate USD 1.95 billion through Barclays, Credit Suisse and Bank of Montreal. Paper Excellence then acquired its competitor Domtar for approximately USD 3 billion in December 2021; Barclays served as exclusive financial advisor.

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Paper Excellence whistleblowers and investigative journalism project lead to calls for parliamentary hearings in Canada

2023-03-22 | Environmental Paper Network
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APP Sinar Mas to build giant paper mill in India

A feasibility study is currently being conducted for a 1.2 million tpy printing paper, tissue and cartonboard mill in the Indian state of Maharashtra, according to Asia Pulp & Paper.
2022-12-06 | pulpapernews.com
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Global bank policies ‘dangerously inadequate’ to prevent financing of deforestation, climate chaos and human rights abuses

As the climate and biodiversity crisis intensifies, credit to forest-risk commodity companies increased 160% between 2020 and 2021.
2022-10-18 | Forests & Finance Coalition
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Paper Excellence Group enters into definitive agreement to acquire Resolute

2022-07-06 | Resolute press release
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Indonesia pulp giants’ net-zero pledges are misleading, warn civil society

By excluding their forestry operations, the pulp companies do not report the biggest source of their emissions; mill expansions are set to increase these emissions
2022-06-16 | Forest & Finance coalition
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Asia Pulp & Paper eyes 2060 net-zero emissions target

2022-05-25 | Eco-Business
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Unifor voices disappointment at the abandonment of Northern Pulp workers

2022-04-28 | Pulp & Paper Canada
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Northern Pulp and its wealthy owners seem intent on taking Nova Scotians to the cleaners

2022-04-04 | Halifax Examiner
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First test of ‘Net Zero’ bank commitments as pulp & paper giants seek finance for expansion that could torpedo Indonesia’s climate goals

Civil society groups warn that material risks to financial institutions haven’t been disclosed
2021-12-13 | BankTrack, Environmental Paper Network, Forests & Finance Coalition
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Domtar deal, deforestation and abuses: Whose side are banks on?

2021-11-25 | Luisa Colasimone - Environmental Paper Network
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2021-10-15 | BankTrack, Global Witness
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Pulp mill in Sumatra connected to fires and respiratory illness plans to triple production

2021-08-25 | Environmental Paper Network
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Indonesian paper giant APP takes over North American Domtar, putting the company’s credibility at risk

2021-07-30 | Sergio Baffoni – Environmental Paper Network
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Paper Excellence Expansion Shows Threats to Canada’s Forests

2021-07-29 | NRDC
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Paper Excellence’s very big deal

Northern Pulp’s parent company is set to acquire the North American pulp and paper giant Domtar. While the acquisition is getting very little media attention in Canada, around the world many people are worried about it — for many good reasons.
2021-07-26 | Halifax Examiner
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Revealed: APP's controversial Indonesian paper mill OKI plans to triple in size

2021-07-23 | Eco-Business
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WWF statement regarding proposed acquisition of Domtar by Paper Excellence

2021-07-22 | WWF
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Land dispute turns violent as Sumatran Indigenous groups clash with pulpwood firm

2021-06-24 | Mongabay
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Toba Pulp Lestari: In depth on one of the worst actors in pulp and paper

2021-06-24 | Rainforest Action Network
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Social and environmental organizations worldwide urge Domtar stakeholders to reject US$2.8 billion Paper Excellence deal, stressing social and environmental concerns

2021-06-24 | Environmental Paper Network
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PT. Arara Abadi Hentikan Segera Penggusuran dan Kekerasan Terhadap Masyarakat Suku Sakai

2021-05-18 | LBH
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Paper giant APP evades voluntary forest protection pledges, binding safeguards by banks and buyers needed

2020-12-03 | Sergio Baffoni – Environmental Paper Network
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Area burned in Indonesia fires ‘greater than the Netherlands’

Greenpeace slams Indonesia for lack of action against the palm oil sector as vast areas of forests burned in five years.
2020-10-23 | Al Jazeera
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A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20
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Omnibus bill on job creation passed into law despite opposition

2020-10-06 | The Jakarta Post
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Global investors warn Indonesia that jobs bill puts forests at risk

2020-10-06 | Reuters
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Principles for Responsible Banking no obstacle to finance climate destruction

Twenty PRB banks provided over US$1.25 trillion in fossil fuel financing since Paris Agreement
2020-09-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
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Paper giant APP’s Sumatran road project cuts through elephant habitat

2020-09-21 | Mongabay
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Corporate shell game 2

PART 2: Northern Pulp - affiliated companies say that without major concessions, they won't be able to pay back nearly $86 million they owe to the province of Nova Scotia. So far, however, the government has not caved, and is not agreeing to new financing.
2020-07-21 | Halifax Examiner
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Corporate shell game

Northern Pulp seeks protection from creditors in a BC Court — and its largest creditor is its owner, Paper Excellence
2020-07-19 | Halifax Examiner
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Asia Pulp and Paper found guilty of peatland clearance and fuelling forest fires in Indonesia

2020-07-15 | Indonesia | Environmental Paper Network
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Indonesian parliament to probe pulpwood firm’s dispute with Indigenous group

2020-07-09 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Mongabay
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Social conflict, abuses and intimidation in the Jambi region, Indonesia – a chronology of pulp industry actions and events

2020-06-19 | Indonesia | Environmental Paper Network
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Civil society denounces Indonesia’s government siding with companies threatening Indigenous Peoples, endangered species and the environment

2020-06-04 | Indonesia | Environmental Paper Network
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Indonesian court jails indigenous farmer in conflict with paper giant APP

2020-06-02 | Indonesia | Mongabay
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New community rights violations by APP in Indonesia met by strong response from 90 environmental and human rights organisations

2020-05-15 | Global | Environmental Paper Network
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The cost of violence in Indonesia – new data indicate USD 1.2 to 10 billion risk from social conflicts involving pulp and paper suppliers

2020-05-04 | Indonesia | Environmental Paper Network
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Conflict between Indonesian villagers, pulpwood firm flares up over crop-killing drone

2020-04-27 | Indonesia | Mongabay
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New Study Reveals Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Involved in Hundreds of Conflicts with Local Communities as Haze Crisis in Indonesia Intensifies

2019-10-01 | Indonesia | EPN
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Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis

2019-09-20 | Indonesia | EPN
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Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis

2019-09-19 | Environmental Paper Network
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Asia Pulp and Paper is planning a massive expansion of production in India

Where will the timber come from?
2019-05-30 | India | EPN
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How can products from an Asian pulp and paper company have carried an FSC label for the past seven years, when FSC disassociated from APP in 2007?

2018-11-15 | FSC Watch
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China Development Bank backs out of financing Sinar Mas purchase of Eldorado

2018-10-01 | Environmental Paper Network
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AP Exclusive: Pulp giant tied to companies accused of fires

2017-12-20 | AP News
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Development or destruction? An inside look at APP’s mega paper mill

Production is ramping up at Asia Pulp and Paper’s massive new pulp mill in Indonesia. Eco-Business takes a close look at what the mill means for the company, Indonesia’s forest and people.
2017-11-14 | Eco-Business
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Indonesia's APP close to buying Eldorado Brasil, sources say

2017-08-27 | Reuters
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Major international banks and investors finance devastating impacts of forest-risk commodities

New report finds eight corporate giants in palm oil, pulp and paper, timber and rubber involved in social and environmental scandal; exposes financial banking
2017-04-24 | Tokyo | Rainforest Action Network
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APP supplier caught doing illegal activity

2017-04-03 | Environmental Paper Network
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NGOs send a letter to Asia Pulp & Paper

2017-03-20 | EPN
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APP uninvites selected press from visiting controversial mill

Asia Pulp & Paper suddenly cancelled a media trip to its new mega mill in South Sumatra. Why? The company, it seems, is not ready to tell the sustainability story about a mill that will chew through 70,000 hectares of timber in a year.
2017-02-27 | Eco-Business
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To abide with the law, APRIL and APP should restore 1.7 million ha in their concession

2017-02-15 | APRIL Watch
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Ministry of the Environment and Forestry orders APP to remove the recently planted acacia

2017-01-30 | EPN
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APP’s New Pulp Mill Endangers Indonesia’s Climate Change Commitments

Asia Pulp & Paper’s $3 billion mill locks in high carbon emissions and fire threat for decades. NGOs call on company to stop using drained peatlands for pulpwood plantations and to restore degraded areas.
2017-01-19 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Eyes on the Forest, Hutan Kita Institute, Wetlands International, Woods & Wayside International, Yayasan Auriga
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Indonesian network says APP should restore burned peatlands

2016-12-27 | EPN
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APP: the government confirms that APP has to remove the acacia illegally planted on burned peat

2016-12-23 | EPN
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As accusations fly, paper giant appears to stand by its replanting of burned peat in Sumatra

A tug-of-war over Indonesia’s peatland policy?
2016-12-22 | Mongabay
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Google Earth images demonstrate true extend of burned in pulp giant's concessions

2016-10-19 | Jakarta | Foresthints.news
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Pulp giant company's work plan annulled due to plantation expansion in Kampar Peninsula landscape

2016-10-11 | Foresthints.news
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Asia Pulp & Paper denial shown to be false

2016-09-01 | Foresthints.news
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Another Indonesian court convicts a company of causing fires

2016-08-30 | Mongabay
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Asia Pulp and Paper Has a Long Way to Go Before It Can Be Considered a Non-controversial Supplier

2016-02-03 | Rainforest Action Network
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Greenpeace re-engages with APP after response to activist's killing

2015-05-27 | Mongabay
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Open Letter: Greenpeace Involvement in APP’s Forest Conservation Policy

2015-05-27 | Greenpeace
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APP Welcomes Greenpeace's Decision to Fully Re-engage on Forest Conservation Policy

2015-05-27 | APP
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Indonesian forestry giant calls for stronger forest moratorium

2015-05-11 | Mongabay
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More than 10,000 acres of forested deep peatlands lost on APP supplier concession

2015-04-06 | Greenomics
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Who's to blame for forest loss in Borneo timber concession?

2015-04-06 | Mongabay
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TAYLOR: Northern Pulp pushes back against environmental rules

2015-03-28 | The Chronicle Herald
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Lives matter most around plantations

2015-03-28 | The Jakarta Post
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Lives matter most around plantations

2015-03-28 | The Jakarga Globe
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Open joint letter from NGOs and civil society on the brutal murder of a farmer in Jambi province – Indonesia

2015-03-16 | Walhi
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APP to end relationship with security contractor over villager's killing

2015-03-10 | Mongabay
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アスクルの《紛争コピー用紙》 ― アカシア植林の原料調達地で起きた悲惨な殺害事件 - “Conflict Copy Paper” We urge Askul to cancel their purchasing contract with APP

2015-03-04 | Jatan
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NGOs condemns APP/SMG for brutal murder by their security of a local farmer

2015-03-03 | Eyes on the Forest
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Pernyataan Greenpeace Atas Kasus Tebo - Greenpeace statement on the death of Indra Pelani

2015-03-02
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APP Response to Incident at Wirakarya Sakti (WKS) in Jambi

2015-03-02 | APP
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BIADAB - Penggunaan kekerasan didalam Menyelesaikan Konflik

2015-03-02 | Walhi Jambi
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Police investigate villager's murder in pulp and paper concession

2015-03-02 | Mongabay
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Indonesia’s Forestry Industry Relies on Illegal Timber: Study

2015-02-17 | Bloomberg
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More Than 30 Percent of Wood Used by Indonesia's Industrial Forestry Sector Comes From Illegal, Unsustainable Sources

2015-02-17 | Forest Trends
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Pulpwood company may be denying Sumatran community rights to their land

2015-02-05 | Mongabay
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Constant Conflict? Unresolved Land Disputes Still Haunt Asia Pulp and Paper

2015-01-15 | RAN
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Plantation companies agree to process to define zero deforestation commitment

2014-09-17 | Mongabay
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Study finds APP has enough forest for pulp mills

2014-09-10 | PPI Environment
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ABB wins order for electrification of world's largest pulp mill

2014-08-27 | Papnews
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Tjiwi Kimia to Place July Stake Sale Proceeds in Oki Stock Fund

2014-06-27 | The Jakarta Globe
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Indonesia blames eight firms for fires affecting region

2014-06-21 | Reuters
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Jacobs Receives Contract from P.T. OKI for Chlorine Dioxide Plant in Indonesia

2014-05-20 | BusinessWire
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EPN welcomes Asia Pulp and Paper’s commitment on forest restoration and conservation

2014-04-28 | Environmental Paper Network
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Is APP's zero deforestation pledge a green villain's dramatic turnaround?

2014-03-26 | The Guardian
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Indonesia politician gets 14 years in jail for illegal permits, forest corruption

2014-03-13 | Mongabay
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Andritz to supply the world’s largest High Energy Recovery Boiler to OKI Pulp & Paper Mills

2014-02-24 | Vienna
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Valmet Has Received an Order from OKI Pulp & Paper Mills for Supplying Key Pulp Mill Technology to Indonesia

2014-02-07
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China Development Bank Backs Indonesian Pulp and Paper Sector in Landmark Deal With APP

2013-10-03 | APP
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APP statement regarding the EPN milestones

2013-09-19 | APP
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Is Asia Pulp & Paper delivering on its zero deforestation commitment?

2013-07-05 | Greenpeace
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APP conservation policy came after it pulped most of its forests

2013-02-19 | Mongabay
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Paper Giant Pledges No Deforestation

2013-02-05 | Indonesia
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

TIMELINE: How you persuaded Asia Pulp & Paper to stop cutting down Indonesia’s rainforests

2013-02-01 | Greenpeace
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Warning to Financiers- Don't Fund Forest Destruction

2012-11-06 | European Environmental Paper Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Disney to Drop Paper from Endangered Sources; Shuns Asia Pulp & Paper

2012-10-12 | Environmental Leader
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Sinar Mas, Tanjung Enim Lestari Eye Pulp, Paper Plants on South Sumatra

2012-09-04 | The Jakarta Globe
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APRIL concessions protested by communities, one dies at APP site

2012-07-06 | Eyes on the Forest
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Asia Pulp & Paper Pledges ‘Sustainable Forest Management’

2012-06-06 | environmental Leader
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Asia Pulp & Paper Tightens Forest-Conservation Efforts

2012-05-15 | The Wall Street Journal
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APP 'illegal logging' claim investigated by Indonesian Ministry of Forestry

2012-04-19 | PrintWeek
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Xerox, Danone Drop Asia Pulp & Paper after Greenpeace Pressure

2012-04-03 | environmental Leader
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Xerox: we no longer buy from Asia Pulp & Paper

2012-03-21 | Mongabay.com
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Mickey and Minnie Protest Disney Rainforest Destruction at Company HQ

2011-05-18 | United States | Laurel Sutherlin, Rain Forest Action Network
private BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Asia Pulp & Paper fined $4.2m for price-fixing cartel

2011-05-04 | Indonesia | ProPrint
private BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Greenpeace activists descend on Asia Pulp & Paper's Sydney conference

2011-04-08 | Indonesia | Proprint
private BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APP fails to win Greenpeace support for tiger relocation programme

2011-02-02 | Indonesia | Proprint
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia's logging industry?

2010-12-02 | The Guardian
private BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

HSBC pulls investment from Sinar Mas after Greenpeace protest

2010-07-08 | The Guardian
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

A forest falls in Cambodia

2010-03-19 | Asia Times
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APP’s forest clearing linked to 12 years of human and tiger deaths in Sumatra

2009-03-17 | WWF
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Paper group listing is forest unfriendly

2009-03-02 | Beijing, China | Greenpeace International
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

China adopts sustainable lending laws

Shows potential way forward for global financial regulators
2008-11-20 | US and Netherlands | Friends of the Earth US
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

中国采纳可持续借贷法规

为全球金融监管者指引潜在前进方向
2008-11-20 | US and Netherlands | Friends of the Earth US
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Human rights body finds rights abuse in Riau land dispute

2008-03-08 | The Jakarta Post
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Staples Ends Contracts With Asia Pulp on Environment

2008-02-07 | Bloomberg
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Jambi villagers burn APP

2008-01-02 | Eyes on the Forest
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

APP fails to protect High Conservation Value Forests

2006-07-11 | WWF
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Without Remedy

2003-01-07 | Human Rights Watch
Resources
Documents
Images
Videos
Links
2021-07-21 00:00:00

Form 8-K Domtar on acquisition by Paper Excellence

Other document
2021-07-21 00:00:00 | Sec.gov
2021-12-13 00:00:00

Asia Pulp and Paper: Risk briefing for banks and investors

BankTrack publication
2021-12-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Environmental Paper Network (EPN), Forest & Finance Coalition, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
2021-09-09 00:00:00

OPEN LETTER CONCERNING THREATS FROM THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OF PT. OKI PULP AND PAPER MILL – APP SINAR MAS

NGO document
2021-09-09 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
2021-07-30 00:00:00

Paper Excellence Expansion Shows Threats to Canada’s Forests

NGO document
2021-07-30 00:00:00 | NRDC
2021-02-11 00:00:00

APP responds to EPN article

Company document
2021-02-11 00:00:00 | APP
2021-02-11 00:00:00

APP puts up smoke screen to confuse and misguide investors

Asia Pulp & Paper has provided an inaccurate and misleading response to the evidence of a failure to implement its own Forest Conservation Policy.
NGO document
2021-02-11 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
2020-10-28 00:00:00

Buyers and banks' ineffective control policies allow paper giant APP to neglect forest conservation commitments

NGO document
2020-10-28 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
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
NGO document
2017-04-28 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network
2020-10-20 00:00:00

A Call to Action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End Climate-Destructive Financing Now

Joint civil society statement
BankTrack publication
2020-10-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and others
2020-05-15 00:00:00

Letter from 90 NGOs to APP investors and buyers on Recurrent Violation of Farmers’ Land Rights

Correspondence
2020-05-15 00:00:00 | 90 NGOs
2019-10-01 00:00:00

Conflict Plantations

Chapter 1: Revealing Asia Pulp & Paper’s trail of disputes across Indonesia
NGO document
2019-10-01 00:00:00 | EPN, RAN
2018-08-27 00:00:00

APP and APRIL violate zero deforestation policies

NGO document
2018-08-27 00:00:00 | WWF
2018-05-01 00:00:00

Removing the Corporate Mask

NGO document
2018-05-01 00:00:00 | Auriga, WWF, Walhi, Koalisi anti mafia huntan, Elsam,IBC, ICW, Jikalahari, Pusako, Woods&wayside
2019-06-07 00:00:00

Asia Pulp and Paper's structure

NGO document
2019-06-07 00:00:00 | EPN
2019-06-06 00:00:00

Overview of APP and Sinar Mas related companies, suppliers and brands

NGO document
2019-06-06 00:00:00 | EPN
2018-03-31 00:00:00

Sustainability report 2017

Annual report
2018-03-31 00:00:00 | APP
2013-02-28 00:00:00

APP's Forest conservation policy

Bank policy
2013-02-28 00:00:00 | APP
2017-03-27 00:00:00

Financiers of IOI and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) face material ESG risks from failure to respect land tenure rights

NGO document
2017-03-27 00:00:00 | RAN, TuK & Profundo
2015-03-25 00:00:00

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

NGO document
2015-03-25 00:00:00 | World Rainforest Movement
2015-03-02 00:00:00

Environmental activist murdered by security force of WKS, a subsidiary of APP

NGO document
2015-03-02 00:00:00 | Walhi
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
NGO document
2015-02-17 00:00:00 | Forest Trends and partners
2015-02-05 00:00:00

An Evaluation of Asia Pulp & Paper’s Progress to Meet its Forest Conservation Policy (2013) and Additional Public Statements

18 month Progress Evaluation Report Period Covered: February 1, 2013 to August 15, 2014
NGO document
2015-02-05 00:00:00 | Rainforest Alliance
2015-01-03 00:00:00

APP's performance in meeting its social responsibility commitments

NGO Submission Provided to Rainforest Alliance’s Evaluation of APP’s Progress in Fulfilling Social and Environmental Commitments
NGO document
2015-01-03 00:00:00 | RAN, WBH, FPP and partners
2014-12-11 00:00:00

APP's responses to: Monitoring Report on APP's FPIC Implementation in the Communities Around PT OKI Mill Pulp and Paper - South Sumatera

Company document
2014-12-11 00:00:00 | APP
2014-12-01 00:00:00

REPORT ON MONITORING OF APP’S FPIC IMPLEMENTATION IN PT. OKI MILL PULP AND PAPER, SOUTH SUMATRA - INDONESIA

NGO document
2014-12-01 00:00:00 | Wahana Bumi Hijau (WBH)
2014-11-25 00:00:00

Does ASIA PULP & PAPER have sufficient plantation fiber supply to support its zero deforestation commitment?

NGO document
2014-11-25 00:00:00 | Greenomics
2014-11-25 00:00:00

Going out, but going green?

Assessing the implementation of China's Green Credit Guidelines
BankTrack publication
2014-11-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth US
2014-10-21 00:00:00

Golden'Agri' demonstrates' '' real'commitment' to'HCS'forest' conservation ' but ' legal'threat'lies' ahead

NGO document
2014-10-21 00:00:00 | Greenomics
2014-08-19 00:00:00

Managing Environmental Impact

International Experience and Lessons in Risk Management for Overseas Investments
NGO document
2014-08-19 00:00:00 | WRI
2014-08-11 00:00:00

Overview of APP's policies

Bank policy
2014-08-11 00:00:00 | APP
2014-05-16 00:00:00

Forest Management Controlled Wood Certification Report of PT MHP

Company document
2014-05-16 00:00:00 | SGS
2014-03-18 00:00:00

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

NGO document
2014-03-18 00:00:00 | Anti Forest-Mafia Coalition (incl WWF, Walhi, Jikalahari and partners)
2014-03-14 00:00:00

Wahana Bumi Hijau complaint letter to APP

Correspondence
2014-03-14 00:00:00 | Wahana Bumi Hijau
2013-11-16 00:00:00

The First Test

performance milestones for customers and other stakeholders to assess the implementation of commitments made under APP's Sustainability Roadmap Vision 2020 and Forest Conservation Policy
NGO document
2013-11-16 00:00:00
2013-10-01 00:00:00

APP’s Forest Conservation Policy

Progress review October 2013
NGO document
2013-10-01 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2013-09-03 00:00:00

Performance Milestones

Performance milestones for customers and other stakeholders to assess the implementation of commitments made under Asia Pulp and Paper’s Sustainability Roadmap – Vision 2020 and Forest Conservation Policy
NGO document
2013-09-03 00:00:00 | EEPN
2013-03-18 00:00:00

APP’s artful deception

After pulping its remaining forests, APP positions itself as a conservation leader with new policy
NGO document
2013-03-18 00:00:00 | Greenomics
2012-11-06 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack et al. to various financial institutions on APP

Correspondence
2012-11-06 00:00:00 | BankTrack et al.
2012-11-06 00:00:00

Letter

Correspondence
2012-11-06 00:00:00 |
2012-06-07 00:00:00

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) default in its obligations with the export credit agencies

NGO document
2012-06-07 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2012-05-01 00:00:00

Dutch private companies related to APP - Update

A research paper prepared for Greenpeace Nederland
NGO document
2012-05-01 00:00:00 | Profundo
2012-05-01 00:00:00

Dutch private companies related to APP - Update

A research paper prepared for Greenpeace Netherlands
NGO document
2012-05-01 00:00:00 | Profundo
2012-03-26 00:00:00

APP: default on environmental covenant

Investigative report
NGO document
2012-03-26 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
2011-01-01 00:00:00

Le rôle d’UBS dans le financement du groupe Sinar Mas et la déforestation des forêts vierges indonésiennes

NGO document
2011-01-01 00:00:00 | Profundo, Greenpeace
2010-10-01 00:00:00

Asia Pulp & Paper’s Hidden Emissions:

Calculating the Real Carbon Footprint of APP’s Paper
NGO document
2010-10-01 00:00:00 | RAN
2010-07-06 00:00:00

How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet

NGO document
2010-07-06 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2010-07-01 00:00:00

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

NGO document
2010-07-01 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
2010-07-01 00:00:00

How Sinar Mas is pulping the planet

NGO document
2010-07-01 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2010-04-01 00:00:00

Illegal Logging in Indonesia

NGO document
2010-04-01 00:00:00 | Blue Green Alliance, RAN, Sierra Club and others
2009-12-01 00:00:00

Bearing Witness: Thirty years of APP’s destruction of forests

NGO document
2009-12-01 00:00:00 | Greenpeace China
2009-05-01 00:00:00

金光集团毁林与碳排放的 最新调查发现

NGO document
2009-05-01 00:00:00 | Greenpeace International
2009-03-20 00:00:00

ILLEGAL FOREST CLEARANCE AND RSPO GREENWASH: CASE STUDIES OF SINAR MAS

NGO document
2009-03-20 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2009-03-17 00:00:00

Tiger Conflict 1997 – 2009 ( 245 Cases in Riau)

Maps and Data to Accompany Eyes on the Forest’s Press Release
NGO document
2009-03-17 00:00:00 | Eyes on the Forest
2008-11-20 00:00:00

中国采纳可持续借贷法规, 为全球金融监管者指引潜在前进方向

NGO document
2008-11-20 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth-US
2008-11-20 00:00:00

绿色变革: 中国银行业的环境政策与实践

NGO document
2008-11-20 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth-US
2008-10-07 00:00:00

Letter from Greenpeace (China) and various NGOs to Ministry of Environmental Protection China on APP China

Correspondence
2008-10-07 00:00:00 | Greenpeace (China) and various NGOs
2008-08-14 00:00:00

APP-letter.pdf

Correspondence
2008-08-14 00:00:00 | Greenpeace (China) and various NGOs
2008-04-30 00:00:00

Burning up Borneo

How Unilever palm oil suppliers are Burning up Borneo
NGO document
2008-04-30 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2008-01-08 00:00:00

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Threatens Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape

NGO document
2008-01-08 00:00:00 | WWf and partners
2007-08-06 00:00:00

Banks, pulp and people

NGO document
2007-08-06 00:00:00 | urgewald
2006-10-01 00:00:00

Hiding Destruction Behind False Advertisements:

APP continues to ignore calls for conservation beyond “legal compliance”, and even fails on the latter
NGO document
2006-10-01 00:00:00 | WWF
2006-08-01 00:00:00

Social conflict and environmental disaster A report on Asia Pulp and Paper's operations in Sumatra, Indonesia

NGO document
2006-08-01 00:00:00 | World Rainforest Movement
2005-05-26 00:00:00

Investigation on APP's Hainan Project

NGO document
2005-05-26 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
2004-10-01 00:00:00

Swedish involvement in the Indonesian paper and pulp industry

NGO document
2004-10-01 00:00:00 | Profundo
2004-07-13 00:00:00

WWF Concerns over the Origin of Fiber for the Mills of the Asia Pulp and Paper Comp any in Sumatra, Indonesia

NGO document
2004-07-13 00:00:00 | WWF
2004-06-16 00:00:00

Monitoring of Illegal Logging Op erations in Riau, Sumatra

NGO document
2004-06-16 00:00:00 | WWF
2003-01-07 00:00:00

WITHOUT REMEDY:

Human Rights Abuse and Indonesia’s Pulp and Paper Industry
NGO document
2003-01-07 00:00:00 | Human Rights Watch
2001-05-01 00:00:00

Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragons

NGO document
2001-05-01 00:00:00 | FoE UK, Profundo

APP's destruction in Yunnan Province, China

2009-07-22
APP's destruction in Yunnan Province, China

Asian pulp and paper

2009-03-31
Greenpeace researcher interviewed a local community in Yangpu Gongtang Lower Village in Hainan province. Villagers reported severe pollution of the village's drinking water, polluted inshore waters and a decline in fish yield.

WEBINAR on APP

2020-10-28 16:33:35

The Ramin Paper Trail

2012-08-27 13:54:00

Asia Pulp & Paper 2010

Company advertisement
2011-05-03 13:44:16

APP-Watch

NGO blog on APP's activities

The Paper Index Times

Site contains international articles on pulp and paper industry developments, activities, etc.

Eyes on the Forest - map of Sumatra

APP on the EJAtlas

FSC Watch

WWF Indonesia

Global Forest Watch: Commodities

Hutan Kita Institute of South Sumatra

Environmental organisation promoting sustainable forest ecosystems through research, advocacy, and education

APP's sustainability hub

SPOTT: APP's ESG policy transparency assessment

SPOTT assesses commodity producers, processors, and traders on their public disclosure regarding environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues

Environmental Paper Network: APP

The Environmental Paper Network's Asia Pulp and Paper information hub

Updates

2023

2023-03-01 00:00:00 | Paper Excellence and APP deeply connected

Two separate research publications show the deep connection between Paper Excellence and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). The publications demonstrate that the two groups are not just only related by shareholders from the same family, but are intertwined and have connections from top to bottom and operate under a common strategy. An APP whistleblower said "We were basically strategically looking after the interests of both companies (...) I was told that everything we're doing has to stay within us." This is crucial as the distinction between Paper Excellence and APP has helped Paper Excellence's growth. Paper Excellence is able to obtain FSC certification and financing from banks, which both would not have been possible if it was integrated by APP.

2022

2022-07-06 00:00:00 | Paper Excellence to buy North America’s Resolute Forest Products

Paper Excellence, through its subsidiary Domtar, has agreed to buy Resolute Forest Products. Paper Excellence and Domtar are associate companies of APP. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2023, with Barclays advising Paper Excellence and CIBC Capital advising Resolute.

2021

2021-12-13 00:00:00 | NGOs reveal significant material risk to banks and investors exposed to APRIL and APP

New analyses by the Environmental Paper Network, Forest & Finance and BankTrack reveal significant material risk to banks and investors exposed to two fo the world’s largest pulp and paper companies - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pactific Resources International (APRIL). 

2021-07-29 00:00:00 | Indonesian paper giant APP acquires North America’s Domtar

Domtar shareholders have decided to sell to Canada’s Paper Excellence, which is associated with Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). Domtar is a major North American uncoated freesheet paper producer with 21 manufacturing facilities around the world, 6,400 employees and customers in 50 countries.

2020

2020-07-23 00:00:00 | Environmental Paper Network responds to APP’s misconduct denials

In response to Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) denials of communities’ rights violations in Indonesia, the Environmental Paper Network has published a chronology of the company’s misconduct between 2007 and 2020. The chronology includes examples of intimidation, criminalisation and episodes of violence.

2020-05-15 00:00:00 | Ninety NGOs pen open letter to APP’s investors and buyers

Local and international organisations including BankTrack, Friends of the Earth, Urgewald, Eyes on the Forest and WALHI have sent an open letter to APP’s buyers and investors. The letter urges action against APP’s continuing violation of communities’ rights in Indonesia.

2018

2018-08-16 00:00:00 | FSC suspends APP’s reassociation process

After embarking on a roadmap to end its disassociation with APP in early 2017, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has announced its decision to suspend the process. The FSC is awaiting “further information from APP related to its corporate structure and alleged unacceptable forest management activities by companies thought to be related to APP”.

2018-05-16 00:00:00 | Greenpeace ends engagement with APP and Sinar Mas

Greenpeace has ended its longstanding engagement with APP, following a new mapping analysis that found almost 8,000 hectares of forest and peatland has been cleared since 2013. This has occurred in two concessions linked to APP and its parent company, the Sinar Mas Group. Greenpeace International put these allegations to APP/Sinar Mas, but the group failed to provide a credible response or to take meaningful action.

2017

2017-11-15 00:00:00 | NGOs publish Performance Verification Criteria and Indicators

A group of NGOs has published an evaluation of the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance performance of Sinar Mas Group (SMG) and Royal Golden Eagle (RGE). The document provides a clear framework that companies and other stakeholders can follow to measure performance requirements and independently verify SMG’s and RGE’s on-the-ground performance. It should prove critical in the Forest Stewardship Council’s decision regarding its reassociation with Asia Pulp and Paper. Groups that worked on the document include the Hutan Kita Institute, Jikalahari, KKI Warsi, the Rainforest Action Network, Titian, Walhi Riau and Walhi Jambi and WWF Indonesia.

2016

2016-04-30 00:00:00 | APP threatens its zero deforestation commitment with South Sumatran pulp mill

A coalition of 12 NGOs has revealed that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) is building one of the world's largest pulp mills in the Indonesian province of South Sumatran. The USD 2.6 billion OKI Pulp and Paper Mills project does not have a sustainable wood supply, which contravene APP’s own zero deforestation policy. The project will expand APP's wood demand by over 50%, much of it sourced from plantations on high-carbon peatlands.

2015

2015-10-06 00:00:00 | NGOs send letter of concern to APP director Linda Wijaya

A group of NGOs has sent a letter to Asia Pulp and Paper Director Linda Wijaya, following a stakeholder engagement forum in Jakarta on 5th October. At the forum, APP presented information on how it is attempting to implement its Forest Conservation Policy and associated plans. The letter raises issues over what the NGOs see as APP’s lacklustre efforts to reform its structures and practices.

2007

2007-10-31 00:00:00 | APP dissociated by Forest Stewardship Council

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has announced its dissociation with APP, citing “substantial publicly available information that suggests that APP is associated with destructive forestry practices.”

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