APP operation left an heritage of land grabs and human rights violations, climate pollution, deforestation across its 2.6 million hectares of concessions.
In 2013 APP committed to map and address these social conflicts. However, the conflict resolution process stalled.
A report released by Rainforest Action Network and a number of Indonesian partner NGOs warned that  there has been little change for communities embroiled in land disputes with the company: hundreds of land conflicts remain and APP has been failing to involve affected communities in giving free, prior and informed consent to new projects or involving affected communities and other key stakeholders in the identification, analysis and resolution of land conflicts.

The Rainforest Alliance evaluation confirmed that around 90% of the several hundred other conflicts that APP has mapped is still unresolved, while social commitments at policy level are not consistently mirrored by implementation on the ground.

In February 2015, the farmer union activist Indra Pelani was brutally murdered by security guards contracted by APP. The company reacted encouragingly by closing the  contract with the involved security firm, but Indra’s tragic killing bolster doubts about the seriousness of APP’s commitment to respect human rights and resolve social conflict. In June, Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission found gross human rights violations transpired with this case, indicating that significant risk of additional legal violations remains.