“APRIL’s carefully orchestrated policy announcement is essentially a licence to continue forest clearance. A glaring weakness is that it would allow its current suppliers to continue to destroy forest and peatlands for nearly a year, and give it another six more years until it would stop using rainforest fibre at its mill,” said Zulfahmi, Greenpeace Southeast Asia Forest Campaigner, at APRIL’s press conference in Jakarta.

“If APRIL were serious about cutting forest destruction from their supply chains then it would look to more progressive players in the forestry sector that have put an immediate moratorium on all forest clearance and peatland development. Greenpeace will continue to expose APRIL’s desperate measures to appease a growing demand for sustainable forestry products.”