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60 NGOs send letters to bank, financial institutions

Sumatra, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, AMAN, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, government, human rights abuses, investors, Jikalahari, NGOs, pulp mill, sinar mas group, WALHI Riau

At least sixty environmental and social non-governmental organizations sent joint letters to banks and financial institutions not to invest in increasing pulp mill capacity of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) or other companies associated with Sinar Mas Group until “reforms have been achieved,” a press release issued last week said.

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NGOs blast APRIL for violence

Sumatra, Tenurial rights, Biodiversity loss, Pulp & paper, AMAN, APRIL, greenpeace, Gunung Sahilan, Jikalahari, JMGR, Kampar, NGOs, RAPP, violence, WALHI Riau

Civil society groups in Riau Province condemned violence shown by PT Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (RAPP), a subsidiary and timber supplier of Asian Pacific Resource International Limited (APRIL) who violently dispersed Gunung Sahilan community’s land dispute protest on 6 March by hitting motorbikes and assaulted the locals.

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