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Introducing #UnwrapTheTruth, A Call to Action to End Wasteful Use of Paper and Packaging

I don’t know if you’re like me…I love holding and reading a good paperback book, and then passing it on to a friend. All of us probably appreciate other high value uses of paper too, for art, education, sanitation and more. But having walked through enough landscapes around the world ravaged by the reckless elements […]

Asia Pulp & Paper and APRIL Groups continued in 2018 to source wood from controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group

Jakarta – The Koalisi Anti Mafia Hutan released a report today finding that Indonesia’s two largest pulp and paper producers – the Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) groups — violated their zero-deforestation commitments in 2018 by taking wood from a controversial supplier owned by Djarum Group. APP and […]

New Study Reveals Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Involved in Hundreds of Conflicts with Local Communities as Haze Crisis in Indonesia Intensifies

APP found to be one of the companies responsible for the forest fires in Indonesia; NGOs call on APP to uphold it’s promises for both communities and forests San Francisco, CA – A new report conducted by a coalition of Indonesian organizations and the Environmental Paper Network has found that Asia Paper & Pulp (APP), one […]

Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis

The world’s tropical rainforests and the people who live in them are suffering continued tragedy from forest fires that are driven by the demand for agricultural commodities, including timber for pulp to make viscose, paper and packaging. In Indonesia, massive forest fires have been burning for weeks, and drained peatlands having been smoldering, causing a […]

ABN AMRO exposed to risk for financing APRIL

Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) one of the world’s largest pulp-and-paper companies, has been under spotlight because extensive rainforest destruction and a large number of social conflicts. Since 2014, a number of Indonesian and international NGOs contacted ABN AMRO and other banks to ask the bank to stop supporting APRIL and its conglomerate Royal […]

Asia Pulp and Paper is planning a massive expansion of production in India. Where will the timber come from?

The growing demand for paper products in India has attracted the attention of the major Indonesian paper company, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) which is now planning to build new pulp & paper mill with the capacity of 5 million tons per year in Andhra Pradesh, India. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding […]

Asia Pulp and Paper admits links to controversial suppliers, but still fails to be transparent

A coalition of Indonesian and international NGOs released a report today bringing to light that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has acknowledged links to controversial suppliers but continues to fail to be transparent. The Indonesian paper giant recently released a document (APP Assessment on its Links with Industrial Forest Plantations in Indonesia) aimed to dispel […]

NGOs raise serious concerns six years into Asia Pulp and Paper’s commitment to reforms

Today, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) celebrates the sixth anniversary of APP’s Forest Conservation Policy (FCP). For six years NGOs have been monitoring the FCP implementation and providing suggestions for improvement of the policy as well as its implementation. With NGOs’ intervention, APP made an additional commitment, to conserve and restore 1 million hectares of […]

More than 50 NGOs call for justice for Rosane Santiago Silveira

The Environmental Paper Network and its members are extremely concerned by the torture and murder of Rosane Santiago Silveira, a mother and environmental and human rights activist who was killed in Brazil on January 29, 2019, and send our deepest condolences to her family. This weekend, more than 50 non-governmental organizations sent a letter seeking […]