Cases / Tree planting · Indonesia · 2012–2024
Sinar Mas/APP fires burned 293,065 hectares; replanting was the recorded sanction
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Fires in Indonesia from 2012 to 2024 burned 293,065 hectares linked to Sinar Mas/APP and 150,693 hectares linked to RGE/APRIL. The sources reviewed list replanting as the sanction and do not show how much forest was restored.
What?
Fires linked to Sinar Mas/APP burned 293,065 hectares in Indonesia between 2012 and 2024; replanting is the recorded sanction.
Where?
Indonesia; no province is named in the sources reviewed
When?
Fires 2012 to 2024; court ruling reported 31 December 2015; judgments unenforced in 2019 The Jakarta Post
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
- Forest ecosystems — 293,065 hectares linked to Sinar Mas/APP and 150,693 hectares linked to RGE/APRIL burned
Harmed
- Local communities — Named as harmed; the sources reviewed give no figure for what they received
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Damage was dealt with through replanting and court judgments, nine of which were unenforced in 2019.
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
Fires in Indonesia between 2012 and 2024 burned 293,065 hectares linked to Sinar Mas/APP and 150,693 hectares linked to RGE/APRIL.
The Jakarta Post reported on 31 December 2015 that a court found no damages after forest fires.
The sources reviewed record replanting as the outcome for APP, and nine final judgments were unenforced in 2019.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record Reported without a source link: an APP supplier, BMH, won at first instance; the case, court and date are not given.
- None on record Reported without a source link: a 2015 rejection of a 7.8 trillion rupiah claim, linked to acacia plantations.
- None on record Reported without a source link: a 30 million dollar a year platform linked to Sinar Mas/APP, with no explanation of its nature.
- None on record Reported without a source link: per-hectare damage values of 856 dollars for burned land and 665 dollars for cut land.
- None on record Reported without a source link: RGE/APRIL is listed with a 60-year term, unexplained.
- None on record Not stated in the sources reviewed: the amount of any fine, and whether it was paid.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations— Communities and civil society— Researchers
Press and investigations
- Report on a court ruling after forest firesThe Jakarta Post · 2015-12-31
Connected cases
Related matters, and cases linked to this one through the same organisations, with the role each played in both.
- Greenpeace ends all engagement with APP and Sinar Mas over deforestation links Indonesia · 2018
- Sinar Mas (Company) — here: group linked to the burned area of Sinar Mas/APP; there: group named alongside APP
- Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) (Company) — here: APP, the group's paper arm; there: company Greenpeace ended engagement with
- Resolute Forest Products v Greenpeace Canada · 2012–2024
- Sinar Mas (Company) — here: group linked to the burned area of Sinar Mas/APP; there: Indonesian group named in Greenpeace Canada's ownership investigation