PEKANBARU (EoF News)-- Eyes on the Forest today published recent pictures of large amount of natural forest wood waiting to be unloaded at harbor of the APP’s pulp mill in Riau and also pictures showing large area of good natural forest in Bukit Tigapuluh landscape being cleared in a concession of PT. Artelindo Wiratama, an APP associated company. EoF also shows clearance in deep peat Kerumutan and Giam Siak Kecil.

1. Natural forest wood waiting at the APP harbour to be pulped by the company (25 February 2010)

APP transports their wood in two ways – by barges to their harbor or by trucks to the mill’s main gate. These pictures were taken by EoF on 25 February. Roughly eighty percent of all the wood we saw at the APP harbor was from natural forest clearance, some of them quite big trees (see the second and third photos, how large they are compared to the two people walking below the log piles and car tires on the bottom of the barge!)  

2. Large scale natural forest clearance in PT. Artelindo Wiratama (September 2009 – February 2010)

The following pictures were all taken by EoF inside PT. Artelindo Wiratama concession. APP has been relying on such large scale natural forest destruction for more than 20 years. It is estimated that the company caused more than 1 million hectares of natural forest loss, equivalent to around 25% of the total loss in Riau. The picture taken in 30 April 2008 was good natural forest which now all cleared for pulpwood plantation in area that shown by photos taken in 2009 and 2010.

30 April 2008 -- PT Artelindo, this was good forest, now cleared

9 September 2009 -- PT Artelindo

5 November 2009 -- PT Artelindo

11 Feb 2010 --PT Artelindo

3. APP clears natural forest in deep peat Giam Siak Kecil block; concession of PT Rimba Mandau Lestari, December 2009

4. APP clears natural forest in deep peat Kerumutan; concession of PT Bina Duta Laksana; November 2009

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NGOs Press Release on APP  

Siaran Pers -- Versi Bahasa

Open Letter by NGOs to Pulp and Paper Sector

Surat Terbuka -- Versi Bahasa