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Overiew of documentation
November 2009
The Singapore-based pulp and paper
giant, APRIL, through its Indonesian national subsidiary, PT Riau
Andolan Pulp and Paper (RAPP), is seeking to develop a ring of new
Acacia plantations on community lands on the peat soils of the Kampar
Peninsula, in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra.
The company also hopes to promote conservation zones in the core
of the Peninsula payable with REDD money.
The company claims it adheres to corporate
'best practice' standards, including the communities' rights to 'Free,
Prior and Informed Consent'. Yet it has already secured permits to
almost 100,000 hecatres of community lands and now only seeks to negotiate
with the communities about land use within a heavily constrained framework.
This series of letters and a briefing summarises the escalating crisis
in the area.
- Letter from FPP and Scale Up to APRIL in
response to APRIL’s letter of 22 September
November 2009
pdf
- Joint briefing from local NGO, Scale Up,
and FPP summarises the situation
October 2009
- pdf
- Letter from APRIL to FPP, responding to
letters from FPP and Scale Up sent in May, August and September
22 September 2009
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pdf
- RAPP (member of the APRIL group) finally
responds to FPP and Scale Up but most questions remain unanswered
(Letter dated 10 September but actually sent after FPP letter of
17th September)
September 2009
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pdf
- FPP writes to APRIL protesting at the unilateral
movement of machinery onto community lands prior to imminent land
clearance operations
September 2009
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pdf
- International NGOs' joint sign-on letter
highlights community rejection of APRIL's plans
August 2009
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pdf
- National NGOs' joint letter to APRIL expressing
support for communities' rejection of PT RAPP's plans
August 2009 (in Bahasa Indonesia)
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pdf
- FPP and Scale up write to APRIL seeking
clarification of the 'Free, Prior and Informed Consent' process
May 2009
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pdf
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