PT. APP - Asian Pulp & APPer
APP is one of the largest pulp and APPer companies in the world.
PT. Indah Kiat Perawang & PT. Bina Duta Laksana is APP’s largest pulp mill in Indonesia.
Pulp is sold to APP APPer mills in Indonesia and China
APP Raw Materials
There are about 22.5 million hectares of peatlands in Indonesia, the vast majority of which are on the Indonesian island of Sumatra
MTH (Mixed Tropical Hardwood) is a an element that only consist in Indonesia tropical forest tree.
40% of Gambut’s peatland in Indonesia is located in Riau.
APP’s Regulations
APP got permission from Menteri Kehutanan based on SK.207/Menhut-II/2006.
Izin Pemanfaatan Hutan Kayu Pada Hutan Tanaman PT. Bina Duta Laksana seluas 28890 Ha.
APP confirmation that peatland’s forest more then 3m are not allowed to cut down.
SMG also claimed not to touch the environment around peatland’s forest as the highest carbon stock (HCV) in Indonesia.
APP’s Performance
APP still maintain its reliance on rainforest logs around peatland’s forest area (MTH & HCV)
“New Development Area Project” APP wants to increase sevenfold times in its pulp capacity in Indonesia
Greenpeace Rejected
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/kicked-out-indonesia-fighting-apps-deforestation-20111021
APP as a huge resource for Indonesia economy, working behind the scene for deportation of Greenpeace campaigner in Indonesia
Greenpeace Investigation
Peatland area and rainforest in Sumatra drastically changed from 1980s to 2000s It is illegal to destroy peatland over three metres deep under APP Regulation.
Impact to Environment
Extinction of Sumatra Tiger & GHG
Sinar Mas APP continues to acquire and destroy forested tiger habitat, and continues to clear carbon-rich peatlands to feed its Sumatran pulp mills.
Mass deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia
Indonesia ranks as the world’s third largest (Green House Gas) GHG emitter.
Corporate Brands that use APP
Greenpeace’s campaign Global Action to Tackle
Climate Change “Stop the Destruction” Start APPerless work
culture
Implement a Time bound plan with SMG/APP
Mattel, Disney, LEGO and Hasbro have stopped buying or selling APPer products connected to APP.
“Corporate Brands are Silent Partners to Forest Abuse”
Affirmative Action
Greenpeace’s solution to APP
Introduce a zero-deforestation policy Minimize the global climate change from deforestation of
peatland’s Sumatra which most of element are HCV
Introduce a APPer procurement policy APP must implement a system to use as much recycled APPer
as possible to minimize the damaged to environment
Certified with standards of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification that APP no longer use any materials which
consist MTH from Indonesia forest.
Affirmative Action
Strict Liability
Manufactures must bear the cost of injuries resulting from product or activity defects regardless of fault.
Ethics of Conserving Depletable Resoures
Conservation refers to the saving or rationing of natural resources for later use.
Caring for future generation
Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainability to Ecology
The Serang Mill Restless Power Plant that use electrical
and steam power.
Lagoon (Water Reserve) & Mini Forest
Waste Water Treatment – (WWT) Plant to treat waste water from
production process
Solid Waste Water Treatment To dispose any negative output from
APPer recycling processhttp://www.ikserang.com/iks/index.php?p=sustainability