Indonesia: Greenpeace Direct Action on destroyer / big sinner: Sinar Mas

Activists said they were punched and kicked by guards and police as they tried to protest against alleged illegal land-clearing in Indonesia’s vast eastern Papua region and on Borneo island. “The excessive violence today by Sinar Mas security is testament to the way this company does business,” Greenpeace Southeast Asia Forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said in a statement.

“Sinar Mas may think they are above the law, but the right to peaceful protest is enshrined in the Indonesian constitution.” Greenpeace climbers unfurled a huge banner reading “Forest and Climate Criminal” on the building as part of the demonstration to demand a halt to the company’s loggin

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Twenty-five Greenpeace activists chained themselves at the entrance to the Sinar Mas building, and Greenpeace climbers deployed a huge 20m x 10m banner to brand Sinar Mas ‘Forest and Climate Criminal’ “Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is saying internationally that he will reduce Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet Sinar Mas continue their forest destruction unabated. If he is serious about Indonesia being a global leader in solving the climate crisis, he must take immediate action to stop this company destroying Indonesia’s greatest asset – carbon rich forests and peatland”, urged Maitar.

Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to all expansion into forests and peatland by Sinar Mas and other companies. Further, they are calling on the Indonesian government to immediately implement a moratorium on any further forest conversion. This will not only help curb the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, but will also safeguard the wealth of tropical biodiversity and protect the livelihood of forest dependent communities all across Indonesia.

The Indonesian government needs to take action to protect the nation’s people from the impacts of climate change through reducing Indonesia’s emissions by 75% by 2012 and pushing industrialised countries to pay for this reduction in deforestation as well as cutting their own emissions dramatically.

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