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The rapid expansion market of paper products linked to deforestation in Indonesia into the European is supporting the further expansion of pulp plantations into Indonesia’s last tropical forests and peatlands. EEPN is promoting a European-wide campaign to stop the expansion of such products into the European market and to protect Indonesia’s rainforests and forest communities rights. Read more... |
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APP is an ever-expanding environmental disaster. APP is now planning to convert 500,000 hectares or rainforests in pulpwood plantations in Papua and to build two new pulp mills in South Sumatra and East Kalimantan with an annual pulp production capacity of 2 million tons each by 2017.[1]APP does not have a sufficient plantation supply to feed any of its mills but is planning to build at least two new pulp mills in Indonesia soon. Much of APP’s future forest clearance is planned in areas with deep peat which will cause its stored carbon to be released further dramatically increasing APP’s already substantial contribution to global climate change.
Starting from the very beginning in1984, APP paper mill Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper, and (ten years later) Lontar Papyrus Pulp & Paper Industry, used exclusively pulped mixed tropical hardwood (MTH) from the clearance of natural forests. Both mills continued to expand. [2] By 2010, APP’s total pulp production capacity in Sumatra had grown to at least 2.7 million tons per year. In addition, APP had added an additional 1 million ton per year pulp mill in China in 2005.[3]
APP’s associated companies recently obtained the clearing and conversion of natural forests in the Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape in Jambi Province. Forest clearance includes the site of the only successful reintroduction program for Sumatran orang-utans. The forest is also home to two communities, who will have nowhere to go if their forest is cleared.[4] In 2009 and 2010 APP obtained cutting permits in other critical habitats, such as the recently established UNESCO Giam Siak Kecil-Bukit Batu Biosphere Reserve, and the Tiger Conservation Landscapes of Bukit Tigapuluh, Kerumutan and Senepis-Buluhala,[5] the tiger habitat of Bukit Tigapuluh[6] (75,000 ha!) and the peat forests in the Kampar Peninsula.[7]
[1] Bisnis Indonesia, Konglomerat Kembangkan Investasi HTI Di Kalimantan Dan Papua, 24 April 2011, http://www.bisnis.com/articles/konglomerat-kembangkan-investasi-hti-di-kalimantan-dan-papua See also: K. Obidzinski and A. Dermawan, CIFOR Forest blog: New round of pulp and paper expansion in Indonesia: What do we know and what do we need to know?, 30 May2011, http://blog.cifor.org/2905/new-round-of-pulp-and-paper-expansion-in-indonesia-what-do-we-know-and- what-do-we-need-to-know/
[2] You can find many information on this in these studies:
D. W.Brown, Addicted to Rent: Corporate and Spatial Distribution of Forest Resources in Indonesia; Implications for Forest Sustainability and Government Policy.” DFID/Indonesia-UK Tropical Forest Management Program Report No. PFM/EC/99/06, 1999, still available in: http://www.reocities.com/davidbrown_id/Atr_main.html
C. Barr (Cifor), Overcapacity in Indonesia’s Pulp and Paper Industry: Pressures on Forests and Financial Risk, September 2001, http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTINDONESIA/FLEG/20171586/Chriss_Bar.pdf
Potter, L. & Badcok, S. (2001) Case Study 6: The effects of Indonesia's decentralisation on forests and estate crops: case study of Riau province, the original districts of Kampar and Indragiri Hulu. CIFOR Reports on Decentralisation and Forests in Indonesia. http://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/Cases%206-7.pdf
Friends of the Earth, Report: Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragons: The responsibility of international financial institutions for Indonesian forest destruction, social conflict and the financial crisis of Asia Pulp & Paper, May 2001, http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/paper_tiger_hidden_dragons.pdf 6 Barr, C. (2001) Banking on sustainability: structural adjustment and forestry reform in post-Suharto Indonesia. WWF Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office & CIFOR. http://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/books/profits.pdf
[4] Frankfurt Zoological Society/ KKI WARSI/ Zoological Society of London/WWF-Indonesia/ Yayasan PKHS, 19 May 2009, comunicato stampa congiungo Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group Sert to Destroy Orangutan Reintroduction Site, Critical Tiger Forest, see: http://www.savesumatra.org/index.php/newspublications/pressdetail/8 See also: press release of Australian Orangutan Project, 14 April 2009, : Orangutan lives hand in the balance as paper giant threatens to demolish forest area, see: http://www.orangutan.org.au/assets/images/uploaded/20090413OrangutanLivesHangInTheBalanceAOPMediaRelease.pdf
[5] WWF, Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group Threatens Senepis Forest, assets.panda.org/downloads/appsenepisreport_oct08_final.pdf
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