Blogposts tagged 'Sinar Mas'

Lego announces forest plan, but what about Mattel?

Posted by andy.t - 7 July 2011 at 4:43pm - 1 Comment
Lego
All rights reserved. Credit: Lego
Lego have promised to stop wrapping their toys in rainforest destruction

When Ken dumped Barbie last month, Mattel was not the only toy company put under the spotlight for their role in rainforest destruction. Our investigation showed that Hasbro, Lego and Disney are also wrapping toys in paper products coming from Indonesian rainforests.

The first of these toy companies to announce more substantive action is Lego, who have released a new statement on this issue today.

Article tagged as: APP, barbie, deforestation, disney, hasbro, indonesia, lego, mattel, sinar mas, transformers

One year after Nestlé committed to giving rainforests a break, what has been achieved?

Posted by Laura K - 25 May 2011 at 1:00pm - 1 Comment
An orangutan protesting about Nestle
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An orangutan protesting about Nestle

It’s now been one year since pressure from thousands of people around the world convinced Nestlé, the world’s largest food and drink company, to give Indonesian rainforests and their inhabitants a break by removing products responsible for deforestation from their supply chains.

Article tagged as: APP, asia pulp and paper, GAR, golden agri resources, indonesia, moratorium, nestle, palm oil, sinar mas

Draft moratorium on Indonesian deforestation falls short

Posted by Jess Miller - 28 February 2011 at 4:02pm - 1 Comment
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The red areas are those forests and peatlands left unprotected by the proposed moratorium

Days before the president of Indonesia is set to announce a moratorium on forest destruction, we’ve got a copy of the draft moratorium, crunched the numbers and the news is not good. The data shows this proposed moratorium does little to protect areas that are not already off limits under Indonesia's existing laws.

Article tagged as: deforestation, GAR, indonesia, maps, moratorium, palm oil, pulp and paper, rainforest, sinar mas

Another break for rainforests as palm oil company reveals plan to halt destruction

Posted by Laura K - 9 February 2011 at 10:20am - 6 Comments
Orang-utan in Indonesia
All rights reserved. Credit: Will Rose/Greenpeace
Orang-utan in Indonesia

Last year Golden Agri Resources' (GAR) biggest claim to fame was being the palm oil arm of notorious forest destroyer Sinar Mas group, Indonesia's largest palm oil and pulp and paper supplier. This is the same company who lost their palm oil contract with Nestlé after the huge online outcry following the launch of our Kit Kat campaign.

Article tagged as: climate change, GAR, indonesia, palm oil, rainforests, sinar mas

APP's latest PR volley reveals more about its deforestation plans than intended

Posted by andy.t - 4 February 2011 at 2:24pm - 5 Comments
Destroying Sumartran rainforest to make way for APP pulpwood plantations
All rights reserved. Credit: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace
Destroying Sumartran rainforest to make way for APP pulpwood plantations

For a while now I’ve been watching closely as Sinar Mas’s pulp and paper arm, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has cranked up its PR machine to start spouting out more and more nonsense, trying to bamboozle their customers (and others) about the reality of their operations in Indonesia.

Article tagged as: aida greenbury, APP, cohn and wolfe, forests, indonesia, pulp and paper, puplwood, rainforests, sinar mas

Forest trasher APP goes for another spin in the greenwash cycle

Posted by jamie - 2 December 2010 at 5:45pm - 4 Comments
Exposing the real story of APP and deforestation in Indonesia
All rights reserved. Credit: Sarwano/Greenpeace
Exposing the real story of APP and deforestation in Indonesia

Forest campaigner Daniela Montalto assesses APP's latest attempts to convince everyone that it really does like trees. Honestly.

It didn't take too long for the notorious rainforest destroyer Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) to make another desperate attempt to distract from the facts.

Article tagged as: APP, deforestation, forests, george monbiot, indonesia, rainforests, sinar mas

How our Nestle campaign travelled around the web

Posted by jamie - 28 October 2010 at 1:20pm - 0 Comments

Sinar Mas influence map

The Sinar Mas influence map by Salter Baxter

Is it a tube map for spiders? A diagram of the galactic core? No, it's an analysis of our ongoing Sinar Mas campaign, specifically the way it has evolved online.

Communication consultants Salter Baxter have tracked how our campaigns on Nestlé, HSBC, Burger King and their connections to Sinar Mas have been discussed on the web, how those conversations have interacted and what impact they've had on the campaign itself.

Article tagged as: deforestation, forests, indonesia, nestle, sinar mas, social media

Scientists criticise claims by logging and palm oil industry mouthpieces

Posted by jamie - 27 October 2010 at 9:25am - 0 Comments

Scientists are objecting to claims made by industry lobby groups, including the amount of carbon stored in plantations compared to rainforests © Greenpeace/Behring-Chisholm

Big oil companies are not the only ones to engage in a spot of sneaky zeitgeist manipulation. The palm oil, paper and timber companies of South East Asia are also dabbling in these dark arts with various front organisations softly massaging public and political opinion.

Both Sinar Mas and Rimbunan Hijau - a Malaysian agribusiness giant - have strong links to Alan Oxley, who runs two groups, the World Growth Institute (WGI) thinktank and consultants ITS Global, both of which have been lobbying hard on behalf of their corporate benefactors.

Article tagged as: alan oxley, APP, deforestation, forests, indonesia, ITS global, rainforests, ribunan hijau, sinar mas, WGI

Rainbow Warrior ordered out of Indonesia - rainforest destruction allowed to stay

Posted by bex - 25 October 2010 at 10:57am - 0 Comments

Deforestation continues in Indonesia, as this image taken on 16 October of an area cleared for an Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) plantation shows (c) Sutton-Hibbert/Greenpeace

Being a part of a Greenpeace ship tour is never boring. Generally, you expect the unexpected, and then you're surprised. But even by ship tour standards, the Rainbow Warrior's recent 'tour' of Indonesia was an interesting one.

It started with high hopes that our peaceful campaigning ship would be able to support the Indonesian president's stated aims of ending deforestation in Indonesia. It ended with the Rainbow Warrior being denied vital supplies and being ordered - and escorted - out of Indonesian waters and well into international waters by two navy vessels, in breach of international maritime law.

Article tagged as: deforestation, forests, indonesia, palm oil, pulp and paper, rainbow warrior, rainforests, ships, sinar mas, sumatra

Sinar Mas plays its latest joker

Posted by ianduff - 1 October 2010 at 2:16pm - 0 Comments

It seems that Sinar Mas hasn’t learnt from last month’s mistakes and is labouring on with a strategy of hiring auditors to distract attention from their ongoing involvement in forest and peatland destruction.

This week Sinar Mas's pulp and paper arm – Asia Pulp and Paper - released a new 'independent audit' that purports to prove that Greenpeace investigations are wrong and our evidence of forest destruction unfounded. The people behind the audit are, shall we say, a little less independent than they claim. Alan Oxley and his consultancy International Trade Strategies Global (ITS) are an Australian outfit who have a track record of working for companies engaged in unsustainable business practices - including logging companies.

Article tagged as: climate change, forests, indonesia, rainforests, sinar mas
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