app fcp one year report final
APP Forest
Conservation Policy
One Year Summary
FEBRUARY 2014
www.asiapulppaper.com
www.asiapulppaper.com
Introduction
It has been an extremely busy twelve months since last February,
when we announced our Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), marking
a permanent end to natural forest clearance in all our suppliers’
concessions. This was the start of what we believe is one of the world’s
most complex and ambitious rainforest conservation programmes.
This is a proud moment for all of us at
APP. There have been those who said we
couldn’t do it and to them I say, ‘We are
doing it, and we mean to succeed.’
“We are doing it, and
we mean to succeed.”
As ever, there is still more work to do, as
our sustainability roadmap is a journey
of continual improvement. However, we
hope that the work we have done to date
in cleaning up our supply chain, will mean
APP is seen as an industry leader in the
conservation of our country’s valuable
rainforests.
1
Forest Conservation Policy
Our successes to date are down to the
thousands of individuals who have
committed so much of their time, effort
and enthusiasm to implementing the FCP,
from APP staff to our partner companies
and external advisors. This includes our
technical and on the ground advisors and
assessors – particularly The Forest Trust,
Ekologika and APCS – and of course the
many NGOs, in Indonesia and worldwide,
who have advised, criticised and
sometimes praised us. They are many, but
chief among them is Greenpeace, without
whose robust critical friendship we would
not be where we are today. We particularly
appreciated the input they provided
through their report into our progress,
released in October.
This booklet looks back at some of the
most signiicant milestones reached in the
past year, to remind us all how far we have
come. It also takes a look at the challenges
and opportunities that lie ahead.
Aida Greenbury
Managing Director
Sustainability &
Stakeholder Engagement
Asia Pulp & Paper
Our sucesses to
date are down to
the thousands of
individuals who have
committed so much
of their time, effort
and enthusiasm
to implementing
the FCP.
Forest Conservation Policy
2
APP’s Forest Conservation Policy in Numbers
Area of land under the control
of APP/APP suppliers:
million hectares
Area of land subjected
to the FCP:
million hectares
Independent
organisations
directly involved
in HCV and HCS
Assessments
APCS
TFT
Ekologika
Ata
Marie
100% completion of
plantation growth and
yield assessments
Employees
Area of land with
established plantations
Area of land as football
pitch equivalent:
Global output
Number of
concessions
undergoing both
HCV and HCS
assessment:
Completion of HCS
Assessments due:
Q3 2014
1 million hectares
Land Claim Conflict
mapping completed
Area of land without
established plantations
1.6 million hectares
million tonnes
3
Forest Conservation Policy
area of land as a proportion of area
allocated for production forest in Indonesia
FPIC (Free Prior and
Informed Consent)
implementation pilots
APP/Sinar Mas
Forestry staff
trained in conflict
mapping techniques
Completion of HCV
Assessments due:
March 2014
Forest Conservation Policy
4
Where it all began
In June 2012, we announced our Sustainability Roadmap Vision 2020.
This laid out targets in 10 environmental and social impact areas to be
achieved within eight years. Among these was a moratorium on natural
forest clearance, due to be implemented in 2015.
‘We are doing this for the
sustainability of our business
and the benefit of society.’
Teguh Ganda Wijaya, APP Chairman
Critics said this wasn’t good enough. So in February 2013, we
announced we would be bringing this target forward by two years.
February 2013
On February 5th we announced a
complete end to natural forest clearance
throughout our entire supply chain. Our
Chairman, Mr Teguh Ganda Wijaya, said in
announcing the FCP, ‘We are doing this for
the sustainability of our business and the
beneit of society.’
This commitment applies to all our
suppliers’ concessions in Indonesia,
which cover 2.6m hectares of land. The
moratorium we imposed at the time on all
new development will remain in place until
a series of assessments is completed to
determine which areas of APP suppliers’
concessions are High Conservation Value
(HCV) or High Carbon Stock (HCS); all such
areas will be permanently protected.
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Forest Conservation Policy
We also started to implement the FCP
in China, where the policy commitments
also apply. Together with TFT, we are
focusing on mapping out our supply chain
of third-party wood chip and pulpwood to
neighbouring countries.
Forest Conservation Policy
6
March 2013
Among our promises was a
commitment to complete transparency.
We established a series of Focus Group
Discussions to enable Indonesia-based
NGOs to question, challenge, advise and
inform our protocols and to learn about
the progress we were making. It soon
became clear that we would all beneit
from more eyes on the ground. This has
led to our Independent Observer (IO)
programme, enabling local NGOs to see
for themselves how the FCP is being
implemented out in the forest. The IO
programme was expanded to cover
pulp mill inspections to verify that any
Natural Forest Wood (NFW) arriving at
the mill had been harvested prior to
our February 5th announcement.
7
Forest Conservation Policy
As a result of a report from an NGO, we,
along with TFT, investigated an alleged
breach of the FCP in Kalimantan. Once
our investigations were complete, we
reported our indings publicly. In this
instance, the forest clearance identiied
in the report had taken place in an
area where there was a substantial
overlap between the boundaries of
our supplier’s concession and those
of a neighbouring oil palm concession.
The clearing was done by the palm
oil company, and consequently there
was no breach of the FCP. However
this case shed light on the problem
of conlicting concession boundaries
between various resource industries.
As a result, we have embarked on a
programme to map out the license
overlaps. Given the extent of this
problem, we have called for more
joined-up land-use planning by
government ministries and
local authorities.
Forest Conservation Policy
8
April 2013
An important issue raised by NGOs was
the monitoring and processing of Natural
Forest Wood (NFW) felled prior to the
February announcement.
In April, Aida Greenbury posted a blog
covering the issue, explaining how all NFW
outside APP’s pulp mills would be located,
identiied, quantiied and tracked through
the supply chain using an inventory
monitoring system developed by TFT.
This system would ensure that only stocks
of NFW felled prior to the moratorium
would be processed. In that blog Aida
Greenbury also addressed the question
of how much natural forest the FCP itself
might conserve. She explained that HCS
assessments were ongoing, and that the
company would publish hard data derived
from satellite imagery of all supplier
concessions once the assessments
were complete.
Another issue raised by NGOs through
FGDs was that of restoration. APP
conirmed that the subject was and would
remain on the table. The priority in the irst
instance would of course be assessments
and a comprehensive conservation plan,
but restoration would be addressed
as part of a long term approach to
sustainable forest management.
9
Forest Conservation Policy
May 2013
This system would
ensure that only
stocks of NFW
felled prior to the
moratorium would
be processed.
A second alleged breach of the FCP
was reported by NGOs in PT. Riau Indo
Agropalma (RIA), one of our suppliers in
Riau, Sumatra. APP and TFT immediately
launched an investigation. That investigation
showed that 70 hectares of forest had
been cleared after February 5th 2013.
The land had been cleared as part of a
community livelihood agreement made
between APP’s supplier and the local
community prior to the moratorium.
Such agreements are a legal obligation
for concession owners in Indonesia.
The land clearing highlighted some of
the complex tensions between local
community development needs, regulatory
obligations and forest conservation goals
in Indonesia.
This breach of our FCP demonstrated that
we had not established rigorous sign-off
processes between local management
teams and headquarters. Together with
TFT, we undertook an immediate review to
assess whether similar cases existed with
other suppliers that could threaten the
moratorium elsewhere.
Forest Conservation Policy
10
June 2013
We trialled our online FCP
monitoring dashboard developed
by TFT. This website, whose
development has been ongoing,
allows interested parties, including
customers, NGOs and media, to
follow progress of the FCP on the
ground as well as providing access
to policies, maps, reports, and
other critical documents.
More information on this
transparency initiative can be
found at www.asiapulppaper.com/
sustainability/tracking-progress/
monitoring-dashboard
11
Forest Conservation Policy
July 2013
A long standing land tenure conlict
was inally resolved in Jambi between
Senyerang village and PT Wira Karya Sakti
(WKS). With efforts to resolve this conlict
dating back to 2002, APP requested
mediation and facilitation support from
TFT. Using a new conlict resolution
approach, agreement was reached and
a Memorandum of Understanding was
signed by all parties. We completed an
initial social conlict mapping exercise and
training programme across all 38 of our
suppliers’ concessions. The objective of
the training was to familiarise staff and
managers with APP’s new approach to
identifying and managing social conlict
in communities within and around
our operations.
We also completed an initial review of
our social conlict management system
in China. This has resulted in a proposed
action plan for social engagement and
conlict resolution for our operations.
July also saw the announcement of
our plans to construct a new pulp mill
in South Sumatra using best-available
technology. We are fully committed to
ensuring that this mill is compliant with
our FCP, and will only use plantation
wood. The mill will be located close to our
concessions in South Sumatra, and we
will ensure that the principles of Free Prior
and Informed Consent (FPIC) are applied
in determining the inal site of the mill.
Forest Conservation Policy
12
Since that day, we
have only accepted
wood from non-HCV/
HCS areas, from
our plantations, or
chips from suppliers
for which we had
clear verification
of compliance with
the FCP.
August 2013
September 2013
A deadline to complete the transport to
our mills of any NFW felled prior to the
moratorium was set for the end of August.
On the 31st, the last truck entered our
Indah Kiat mill. Since that day, we have
only accepted wood from non-HCV/HCS
areas, from our plantations, or chips from
suppliers for which we have had clear
veriication of compliance with the FCP.
The European and North American
Environmental Paper Networks (EPN/
EEPN) published a set of indicators and
milestones against which stakeholders
could assess our progress in implementing
the FCP. We reviewed these in detail
and expressed our conidence that our
implementation of the FCP and Roadmap
commitments was on course. EPN then
hosted a global webinar to discuss the
milestones and APP’s performance. Aida
Greenbury was given the opportunity to
present progress on the FCP. Participants
mainly included companies and NGOs
including Greenpeace, Rainforest Action
Network, and WWF.
Learning from previous NGO-reported
grievances concerning our forest
moratorium, we, together with TFT, carried
out a comprehensive review of all our
pulpwood suppliers’ activities to ensure
that there would not be any further
moratorium violations. As part of this
review, we identiied two cases that we
voluntarily reported on our website and
directly to key stakeholders including
the media.
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Forest Conservation Policy
The irst case took place in PT. Bina Duta
Laksana (BD L) in Riau province. Like
the PT. RIA case mentioned above, in
this concession a community livelihood
agreement had been made before the
February 5th moratorium. It was not
possible to determine if any of the 28
hectares developed, had been HCS.
The second case occurred in PT. Bumi
Andalas Permai (BAP), PT. Sebangun
Bumi Andalas (SBA), and PT. Bumi Mekar
Hijau (BMH) in South Sumatra province.
Nearly 70 hectares of HCS forest was
wrongly cleared in an area set aside from
development, pending full HCV and
HCS assessments.
The two cases resulted in additional
sign-off procedures between local
management and head ofice being
put in place to prevent the recurrence
of such breaches.
September also saw further
development of the FCP Monitoring
Dashboard. Customers and NGOs were
invited to provide input on content and
system improvements.
Forest Conservation Policy
14
The report acknowledged the
challenges ahead, and made
constructive recommendations
for tackling them.
October 2013
Greenpeace released its FCP Progress
Report. The 14-page report was thorough,
objective and fair. We welcomed it,
in particular the observation that
our senior management were clearly
wholly committed to the FCP, and that
our transparent reporting and selfdisclosure was commendable. The report
acknowledged the challenges ahead, and
made constructive recommendations for
tackling them. Finally, it recommended that
consumer companies wishing to re-engage
with APP should closely scrutinize our
progress in implementing the FCP.
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Forest Conservation Policy
Forest Conservation Policy
16
November 2013
APP regards the FSC as a
highly credible standard for
certiication of responsible forest
management. We were therefore
encouraged to learn that its board
of directors publicly welcomed
our FCP and expressed interest
in understanding more about
how it is being implemented.
Our ambition is to be formally
re-associated with the FSC.
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Forest Conservation Policy
Forest Conservation Policy
18
January 2014
The Rainforest Alliance will undertake a
third-party evaluation of the progress we
are making in implementing our Forest
Conservation Policy and related public
commitments. The Rainforest Alliance will
release its indings in a report in late 2014.
A team of peatland experts has also
been engaged. The team is being led
by Wageningen University and Research
centre (Alterra in collaboration with
Wageningen University).
December 2013
We received the draft HCV reports for
the irst 11 concession areas from the
third-party auditor APCS. These have now
been submitted for peer review and for
NGO input.
In addition, work was completed by TFT
and APP on a comprehensive assessment
of our suppliers’ plantation growth rates
and pulpwood yields (the so-called Growth
and Yield assessments). This provides
both us and our stakeholders with
clarity on our ability to manage our pulp
business for the foreseeable future using
sustainable plantations.
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Forest Conservation Policy
This provides both us
and our stakeholders
with clarity con our
ability to manage our
pulp business for the
foreseeable future
using sustainable
plantations.
In a 3-month Inception Phase, which
began in January 2014, the team will
analyse current peat management
issues and opportunities in APP supplier
concessions, and propose an outline plan
for a follow-up Second Phase of the work,
in which, an approach for moving towards
responsible peat management will
be identiied.
Along with the results of the HCV and
HCS assessments, recommendations
from the team will be used to develop
APP’s Integrated Sustainable Forest
Management Plans (ISFMP).
Forest Conservation Policy
20
Looking ahead
We expect 2014 to be no less
challenging and busy than the
first year of our FCP.
Looking back at what was achieved in
2013 and more importantly looking to the
future, we are conident that by this time
next year, our stakeholders – in particular
the NGO community, and those many
customers who have shown environmental
leadership– will recognise just how far we
have come.
Having done much of the groundwork
in 2013, the year ahead will be about
increasing engagement with the FCP as
we will not be successful in our efforts
to conserve the natural forest and
biodiversity in our concessions, without
the support of others.
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Forest Conservation Policy
We are appealing to businesses,
Government, NGOs and communities to
work with us as we seek to ind a real and
lasting solution to Indonesia’s deforestation
issues. We also want to ensure that all
stakeholders are doing what they can to
incentivise sustainability by supporting
market recognition for pulp and paper
products that have been produced using
responsible forestry practices.
Forest Conservation Policy
22
Conservation Policy
One Year Summary
FEBRUARY 2014
www.asiapulppaper.com
www.asiapulppaper.com
Introduction
It has been an extremely busy twelve months since last February,
when we announced our Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), marking
a permanent end to natural forest clearance in all our suppliers’
concessions. This was the start of what we believe is one of the world’s
most complex and ambitious rainforest conservation programmes.
This is a proud moment for all of us at
APP. There have been those who said we
couldn’t do it and to them I say, ‘We are
doing it, and we mean to succeed.’
“We are doing it, and
we mean to succeed.”
As ever, there is still more work to do, as
our sustainability roadmap is a journey
of continual improvement. However, we
hope that the work we have done to date
in cleaning up our supply chain, will mean
APP is seen as an industry leader in the
conservation of our country’s valuable
rainforests.
1
Forest Conservation Policy
Our successes to date are down to the
thousands of individuals who have
committed so much of their time, effort
and enthusiasm to implementing the FCP,
from APP staff to our partner companies
and external advisors. This includes our
technical and on the ground advisors and
assessors – particularly The Forest Trust,
Ekologika and APCS – and of course the
many NGOs, in Indonesia and worldwide,
who have advised, criticised and
sometimes praised us. They are many, but
chief among them is Greenpeace, without
whose robust critical friendship we would
not be where we are today. We particularly
appreciated the input they provided
through their report into our progress,
released in October.
This booklet looks back at some of the
most signiicant milestones reached in the
past year, to remind us all how far we have
come. It also takes a look at the challenges
and opportunities that lie ahead.
Aida Greenbury
Managing Director
Sustainability &
Stakeholder Engagement
Asia Pulp & Paper
Our sucesses to
date are down to
the thousands of
individuals who have
committed so much
of their time, effort
and enthusiasm
to implementing
the FCP.
Forest Conservation Policy
2
APP’s Forest Conservation Policy in Numbers
Area of land under the control
of APP/APP suppliers:
million hectares
Area of land subjected
to the FCP:
million hectares
Independent
organisations
directly involved
in HCV and HCS
Assessments
APCS
TFT
Ekologika
Ata
Marie
100% completion of
plantation growth and
yield assessments
Employees
Area of land with
established plantations
Area of land as football
pitch equivalent:
Global output
Number of
concessions
undergoing both
HCV and HCS
assessment:
Completion of HCS
Assessments due:
Q3 2014
1 million hectares
Land Claim Conflict
mapping completed
Area of land without
established plantations
1.6 million hectares
million tonnes
3
Forest Conservation Policy
area of land as a proportion of area
allocated for production forest in Indonesia
FPIC (Free Prior and
Informed Consent)
implementation pilots
APP/Sinar Mas
Forestry staff
trained in conflict
mapping techniques
Completion of HCV
Assessments due:
March 2014
Forest Conservation Policy
4
Where it all began
In June 2012, we announced our Sustainability Roadmap Vision 2020.
This laid out targets in 10 environmental and social impact areas to be
achieved within eight years. Among these was a moratorium on natural
forest clearance, due to be implemented in 2015.
‘We are doing this for the
sustainability of our business
and the benefit of society.’
Teguh Ganda Wijaya, APP Chairman
Critics said this wasn’t good enough. So in February 2013, we
announced we would be bringing this target forward by two years.
February 2013
On February 5th we announced a
complete end to natural forest clearance
throughout our entire supply chain. Our
Chairman, Mr Teguh Ganda Wijaya, said in
announcing the FCP, ‘We are doing this for
the sustainability of our business and the
beneit of society.’
This commitment applies to all our
suppliers’ concessions in Indonesia,
which cover 2.6m hectares of land. The
moratorium we imposed at the time on all
new development will remain in place until
a series of assessments is completed to
determine which areas of APP suppliers’
concessions are High Conservation Value
(HCV) or High Carbon Stock (HCS); all such
areas will be permanently protected.
5
Forest Conservation Policy
We also started to implement the FCP
in China, where the policy commitments
also apply. Together with TFT, we are
focusing on mapping out our supply chain
of third-party wood chip and pulpwood to
neighbouring countries.
Forest Conservation Policy
6
March 2013
Among our promises was a
commitment to complete transparency.
We established a series of Focus Group
Discussions to enable Indonesia-based
NGOs to question, challenge, advise and
inform our protocols and to learn about
the progress we were making. It soon
became clear that we would all beneit
from more eyes on the ground. This has
led to our Independent Observer (IO)
programme, enabling local NGOs to see
for themselves how the FCP is being
implemented out in the forest. The IO
programme was expanded to cover
pulp mill inspections to verify that any
Natural Forest Wood (NFW) arriving at
the mill had been harvested prior to
our February 5th announcement.
7
Forest Conservation Policy
As a result of a report from an NGO, we,
along with TFT, investigated an alleged
breach of the FCP in Kalimantan. Once
our investigations were complete, we
reported our indings publicly. In this
instance, the forest clearance identiied
in the report had taken place in an
area where there was a substantial
overlap between the boundaries of
our supplier’s concession and those
of a neighbouring oil palm concession.
The clearing was done by the palm
oil company, and consequently there
was no breach of the FCP. However
this case shed light on the problem
of conlicting concession boundaries
between various resource industries.
As a result, we have embarked on a
programme to map out the license
overlaps. Given the extent of this
problem, we have called for more
joined-up land-use planning by
government ministries and
local authorities.
Forest Conservation Policy
8
April 2013
An important issue raised by NGOs was
the monitoring and processing of Natural
Forest Wood (NFW) felled prior to the
February announcement.
In April, Aida Greenbury posted a blog
covering the issue, explaining how all NFW
outside APP’s pulp mills would be located,
identiied, quantiied and tracked through
the supply chain using an inventory
monitoring system developed by TFT.
This system would ensure that only stocks
of NFW felled prior to the moratorium
would be processed. In that blog Aida
Greenbury also addressed the question
of how much natural forest the FCP itself
might conserve. She explained that HCS
assessments were ongoing, and that the
company would publish hard data derived
from satellite imagery of all supplier
concessions once the assessments
were complete.
Another issue raised by NGOs through
FGDs was that of restoration. APP
conirmed that the subject was and would
remain on the table. The priority in the irst
instance would of course be assessments
and a comprehensive conservation plan,
but restoration would be addressed
as part of a long term approach to
sustainable forest management.
9
Forest Conservation Policy
May 2013
This system would
ensure that only
stocks of NFW
felled prior to the
moratorium would
be processed.
A second alleged breach of the FCP
was reported by NGOs in PT. Riau Indo
Agropalma (RIA), one of our suppliers in
Riau, Sumatra. APP and TFT immediately
launched an investigation. That investigation
showed that 70 hectares of forest had
been cleared after February 5th 2013.
The land had been cleared as part of a
community livelihood agreement made
between APP’s supplier and the local
community prior to the moratorium.
Such agreements are a legal obligation
for concession owners in Indonesia.
The land clearing highlighted some of
the complex tensions between local
community development needs, regulatory
obligations and forest conservation goals
in Indonesia.
This breach of our FCP demonstrated that
we had not established rigorous sign-off
processes between local management
teams and headquarters. Together with
TFT, we undertook an immediate review to
assess whether similar cases existed with
other suppliers that could threaten the
moratorium elsewhere.
Forest Conservation Policy
10
June 2013
We trialled our online FCP
monitoring dashboard developed
by TFT. This website, whose
development has been ongoing,
allows interested parties, including
customers, NGOs and media, to
follow progress of the FCP on the
ground as well as providing access
to policies, maps, reports, and
other critical documents.
More information on this
transparency initiative can be
found at www.asiapulppaper.com/
sustainability/tracking-progress/
monitoring-dashboard
11
Forest Conservation Policy
July 2013
A long standing land tenure conlict
was inally resolved in Jambi between
Senyerang village and PT Wira Karya Sakti
(WKS). With efforts to resolve this conlict
dating back to 2002, APP requested
mediation and facilitation support from
TFT. Using a new conlict resolution
approach, agreement was reached and
a Memorandum of Understanding was
signed by all parties. We completed an
initial social conlict mapping exercise and
training programme across all 38 of our
suppliers’ concessions. The objective of
the training was to familiarise staff and
managers with APP’s new approach to
identifying and managing social conlict
in communities within and around
our operations.
We also completed an initial review of
our social conlict management system
in China. This has resulted in a proposed
action plan for social engagement and
conlict resolution for our operations.
July also saw the announcement of
our plans to construct a new pulp mill
in South Sumatra using best-available
technology. We are fully committed to
ensuring that this mill is compliant with
our FCP, and will only use plantation
wood. The mill will be located close to our
concessions in South Sumatra, and we
will ensure that the principles of Free Prior
and Informed Consent (FPIC) are applied
in determining the inal site of the mill.
Forest Conservation Policy
12
Since that day, we
have only accepted
wood from non-HCV/
HCS areas, from
our plantations, or
chips from suppliers
for which we had
clear verification
of compliance with
the FCP.
August 2013
September 2013
A deadline to complete the transport to
our mills of any NFW felled prior to the
moratorium was set for the end of August.
On the 31st, the last truck entered our
Indah Kiat mill. Since that day, we have
only accepted wood from non-HCV/HCS
areas, from our plantations, or chips from
suppliers for which we have had clear
veriication of compliance with the FCP.
The European and North American
Environmental Paper Networks (EPN/
EEPN) published a set of indicators and
milestones against which stakeholders
could assess our progress in implementing
the FCP. We reviewed these in detail
and expressed our conidence that our
implementation of the FCP and Roadmap
commitments was on course. EPN then
hosted a global webinar to discuss the
milestones and APP’s performance. Aida
Greenbury was given the opportunity to
present progress on the FCP. Participants
mainly included companies and NGOs
including Greenpeace, Rainforest Action
Network, and WWF.
Learning from previous NGO-reported
grievances concerning our forest
moratorium, we, together with TFT, carried
out a comprehensive review of all our
pulpwood suppliers’ activities to ensure
that there would not be any further
moratorium violations. As part of this
review, we identiied two cases that we
voluntarily reported on our website and
directly to key stakeholders including
the media.
13
Forest Conservation Policy
The irst case took place in PT. Bina Duta
Laksana (BD L) in Riau province. Like
the PT. RIA case mentioned above, in
this concession a community livelihood
agreement had been made before the
February 5th moratorium. It was not
possible to determine if any of the 28
hectares developed, had been HCS.
The second case occurred in PT. Bumi
Andalas Permai (BAP), PT. Sebangun
Bumi Andalas (SBA), and PT. Bumi Mekar
Hijau (BMH) in South Sumatra province.
Nearly 70 hectares of HCS forest was
wrongly cleared in an area set aside from
development, pending full HCV and
HCS assessments.
The two cases resulted in additional
sign-off procedures between local
management and head ofice being
put in place to prevent the recurrence
of such breaches.
September also saw further
development of the FCP Monitoring
Dashboard. Customers and NGOs were
invited to provide input on content and
system improvements.
Forest Conservation Policy
14
The report acknowledged the
challenges ahead, and made
constructive recommendations
for tackling them.
October 2013
Greenpeace released its FCP Progress
Report. The 14-page report was thorough,
objective and fair. We welcomed it,
in particular the observation that
our senior management were clearly
wholly committed to the FCP, and that
our transparent reporting and selfdisclosure was commendable. The report
acknowledged the challenges ahead, and
made constructive recommendations for
tackling them. Finally, it recommended that
consumer companies wishing to re-engage
with APP should closely scrutinize our
progress in implementing the FCP.
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November 2013
APP regards the FSC as a
highly credible standard for
certiication of responsible forest
management. We were therefore
encouraged to learn that its board
of directors publicly welcomed
our FCP and expressed interest
in understanding more about
how it is being implemented.
Our ambition is to be formally
re-associated with the FSC.
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January 2014
The Rainforest Alliance will undertake a
third-party evaluation of the progress we
are making in implementing our Forest
Conservation Policy and related public
commitments. The Rainforest Alliance will
release its indings in a report in late 2014.
A team of peatland experts has also
been engaged. The team is being led
by Wageningen University and Research
centre (Alterra in collaboration with
Wageningen University).
December 2013
We received the draft HCV reports for
the irst 11 concession areas from the
third-party auditor APCS. These have now
been submitted for peer review and for
NGO input.
In addition, work was completed by TFT
and APP on a comprehensive assessment
of our suppliers’ plantation growth rates
and pulpwood yields (the so-called Growth
and Yield assessments). This provides
both us and our stakeholders with
clarity on our ability to manage our pulp
business for the foreseeable future using
sustainable plantations.
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This provides both us
and our stakeholders
with clarity con our
ability to manage our
pulp business for the
foreseeable future
using sustainable
plantations.
In a 3-month Inception Phase, which
began in January 2014, the team will
analyse current peat management
issues and opportunities in APP supplier
concessions, and propose an outline plan
for a follow-up Second Phase of the work,
in which, an approach for moving towards
responsible peat management will
be identiied.
Along with the results of the HCV and
HCS assessments, recommendations
from the team will be used to develop
APP’s Integrated Sustainable Forest
Management Plans (ISFMP).
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Looking ahead
We expect 2014 to be no less
challenging and busy than the
first year of our FCP.
Looking back at what was achieved in
2013 and more importantly looking to the
future, we are conident that by this time
next year, our stakeholders – in particular
the NGO community, and those many
customers who have shown environmental
leadership– will recognise just how far we
have come.
Having done much of the groundwork
in 2013, the year ahead will be about
increasing engagement with the FCP as
we will not be successful in our efforts
to conserve the natural forest and
biodiversity in our concessions, without
the support of others.
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We are appealing to businesses,
Government, NGOs and communities to
work with us as we seek to ind a real and
lasting solution to Indonesia’s deforestation
issues. We also want to ensure that all
stakeholders are doing what they can to
incentivise sustainability by supporting
market recognition for pulp and paper
products that have been produced using
responsible forestry practices.
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