No Place to Hide for Sinar Mas APP: its devastation of the country's natural forest is clear and present and for everybody to see
Jakarta, Indonesia, 19 August 2010 – Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp & Paper (SMG/APP) attempted to give itself a clean bill of health last week by covering up its forest destruction in an 'assured' long winded report. But there is no place to hide for this company. Satellites images have been capturing and documenting every single hectare that the company has destroyed for years. "We have no doubt, paper SMG/APP produces in its mills contains Sumatra's timber from dense tropical rainforest", Aditya Bayunanda WWF's Pulp & Paper Coordinator for Indonesia confirms. "After pulping more than a million hectares of Indonesia's forests since it first opened its Indah Kiat mill in Riau, Sumatra, APP applied for and plans to clear yet another 100,000 hectares of natural forest in 2009 and 2010. "100,000 hectare today and 1,000,000 hectare yesterday cannot be hidden. These areas and the forests that were once there have been verified on satellite images, through aerial surveys and field visits many times." said Aditya.
WWF is one of dozens of Indonesian NGOs who have been detailing this and much more in numerous reports in an independent and transparent manner. The facts are there, in the open for everybody to see and for everyone to check. WWF invites those who want to see to come and verify for themselves. This invitation especially goes to Mazars, the latest in a series of contractors hired to 'assure' the public about SMG/APP's record. Actually, Mazars distanced itself from its 'assurance report' for SMG/APP even in its cover letter explaining that the "Board of Directors of the [SMG/APP] Companies [who hired Mazars] are responsible for both the subject matter and the evaluation criteria. The Mazars 'assurance report' itself, nor any of the SMG/APP specific references APP quoted in its audited CSR report are publicly available. No published NGO report on SMG/APP operations was referenced in the APP's audited CSR report, therefore not verified by Mazars. The public is thus provided with nothing but a cover letter on an unpublished 'assurance report' about documents that are not made available to public.
WWF is one of dozens of Indonesian NGOs who have been detailing this and much more in numerous reports in an independent and transparent manner. The facts are there, in the open for everybody to see and for everyone to check. WWF invites those who want to see to come and verify for themselves. This invitation especially goes to Mazars, the latest in a series of contractors hired to 'assure' the public about SMG/APP's record. Actually, Mazars distanced itself from its 'assurance report' for SMG/APP even in its cover letter explaining that the "Board of Directors of the [SMG/APP] Companies [who hired Mazars] are responsible for both the subject matter and the evaluation criteria. The Mazars 'assurance report' itself, nor any of the SMG/APP specific references APP quoted in its audited CSR report are publicly available. No published NGO report on SMG/APP operations was referenced in the APP's audited CSR report, therefore not verified by Mazars. The public is thus provided with nothing but a cover letter on an unpublished 'assurance report' about documents that are not made available to public.
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