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Greenpeace activists wearing face masks of US President Obama and Indonesian President Yudhoyono’s pose in front of a banner which reads “Stop talking, start acting, save the forests for our future” in front of Jakarta’s Monumen Nasional (National Monument). More than a hundred Greenpeace activists and supporters from Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung and Jakarta rallied in Indonesia’s capital in support of President Yudhoyono’s international commitment to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. Enlarge Image

Stop talking, start acting ­ save the forests for our future

Hundreds of Greenpeace activists and supporters from several of Java’s main cities today rallied in support of President Yudhoyono¹s international commitment to reduce carbon emissions from Indonesia. They called for his promise to be immediately put into practice by halting deforestation which is driving runaway climate change. More than hundreds activists gathered early in the morning at Monas and marched down Jl. Sudirman to Bunderan Hotel Indonesia where they unfolded a banner reading, “Stop talking, start acting ­ save the forests for our future”.

Greenpeace today marched to the Indonesian Embassy to call on its government to fully shut down operations of paper giant Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) and other companies destroying the carbon-rich peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula in Sumatra. The group, rallying behind a banner that said “stop forest destroyers, not climate defenders”, delivered a letter addressed to Ambassador Irzan Tandjung. Greenpeace is denouncing the unfounded arrest, interrogation and deportation of journalists and Greenpeace activists trying to bring attention to the forest crimes being committed by APRIL. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace calls on Indonesian government to arrest forest destroyers instead of harassing climate defenders

Greenpeace today marched to the Indonesian Embassy to call on its government to carry the full extent of environmental law on companies that are destroying the carbon-rich peatlands of Indonesia’s Kampar Peninsula in Sumatra. The group, rallying behind a banner that said “stop forest destroyers, not climate defenders”, delivered a letter addressed to Ambassador Irzan Tandjung.

Bustar Maitar mengucapkan terima kasih kepada para warga masyarakat yang datang untuk mendukung Greenpeace untuk tetap tinggal. Suatu kejutan di saat-saat Greenpeace harus meninggalkan kamp karena desakan penjahat huta. Enlarge Image

Climate defenders to stay; Police reverses eviction order under pressure from communities

In a surprising move, the chief of police of Pelalawan district revoked an earlier order of Governor of Riau to evict Greenpeace activists participating in the Climate Defenders camp on the threatened Kampar Peninsula and has permitted them to stay following massive support from local communities.

Greenpeace activists say emotional goodbyes ahead of eviction from Climate Defender's Camp. Enlarge Image

Indonesian authorities evict climate defenders under pressure from forest criminals

The Indonesian police authorities, under orders from the Governor of Riau Province, will today begin the eviction of Greenpeace activists and local community members participating in the Climate Defenders camp on the threatened Kampar Peninsula in the heartland of Sumatra’s rainforest. Police and immigration authorities have also ordered the deportation of 11 international activists who participated in a non-violent direct action to expose and stop blatant and illegal destruction of peatlands by Asia Pacific Resource International Holdings (APRIL).

Greenpeace activists locked themselves to seven excavators, owned by Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRILRGE), one of Indonesia's biggest pulp and paper producers, to prevent it destroying the rainforest to make way for tree plantations, grown to make pulp and paper for international customers, including UPM Kymmene. The action took place two days before Obama joins 20 other Heads of State in Singapore to discuss Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and just weeks before leaders must agree an historic deal to avert a climate crisis at the climate at December's UN climate summit. Enlarge Image

Global paper giant cancels APRIL contract to stop Indonesia rainforest destruction

Even as Greenpeace activists, who took direct action on Thursday to stop the destruction of peatlands in the Kampar peninsula by Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL), are being detained by the police in Indonesia, the global paper giant, UPM-Kymmene, has said that it will stop buying pulp from APRIL, who operates one of the world’s largest pulp mills in Riau and is responsible for causing widespread rainforest in Indonesia.

Over 50 Greenpeace activists from the Climate Defenders Camp on the Kampar Peninsula take action against deforestation - unfurling a 20 x 30 meter banner in a freshly destroyed area of rainforest that read ‘Obama you can stop this’, urging him to take strong leadership and work closely with other Heads of State to help avert a climate crisis by ending global deforestation, responsible for about a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Enlarge Image

SHUTDOWN! Forest destruction blocked by Greenpeace to save the climate

While politicians continue to talk, we're taking action at the frontline of forest and climate destruction in Indonesia. Barack Obama is about to arrive in Asia for his first official visit while the US continues to block progress ahead of the critical UN climate summit.

Greenpeace activists locked themselves to seven excavators, owned by Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRILRGE), one of Indonesia's biggest pulp and paper producers, to prevent it destroying the rainforest to make way for tree plantations, grown to make pulp and paper for international customers, including UPM Kymmene. The action took place two days before Obama joins 20 other Heads of State in Singapore to discuss Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and just weeks before leaders must agree an historic deal to avert a climate crisis at the climate at December's UN climate summit. Enlarge Image

"Indonesia is climate change's 'ground zero'"

As Barack Obama arrives in Asia for his first visit to the region as President and while the United States continues to block progress ahead of the critical UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen next month, a 50-strong international team of Greenpeace activists issued him an urgent call to action from the heart of Indonesia’s threatened rainforests.

Greenpeace kicks up a storm of protest at UN climate talks, staging an extreme weather event for delegates arriving at the talks. This is a taste of what the future could look like if they don't create the right conditions for a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal. Enlarge Image

Naked emperors: the Greenpeace Guide to Climate Politics

You know the story. The clever tailors that convince a kingdom that only intelligent people can see the clothes they make. Everyone talks about how fine the emperor's outfit is, until one audacious voice pipes up to say there's nothing there, the king is naked. When the reality of climate change politics is stripped of rhetoric, most of the industrialised world's leaders are seriously underdressed, and Obama isn't wearing a stitch.

Melanie Laurent gives support to Greenpeace activists and local volunteers during attempt to halt drainage by constructing dams on the peatland canals as part of their "Climate Defender Camp" at Kampar Peninsula, Teluk meranti village, Riau province, Indonesia. Enlarge Image

Inglourious treehuggers dam climate change!

If we told you that there was one single way to cut a fifth of global greenhouse emissions - that simply involved hugging trees - would you believe us? Probably not - but that's exactly what's required. And we've got 50 activists in the Indonesian rainforest together with Inglourious Basterds star Mélanie Laurent - doing just that - and calling on world leaders to do the same.

Greenpeace activists unfurl a banner on arecently cleared peatland forest in the pulp and paper concession of PT.Arara Abadi-siak owned by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) in Kampar-Riau. Greenpeace is protesting against the destruction of kampar Peninsular`s peatland forest by pulp adn paper and palm oil industries and called on the indonesian goverment to implement a moratorium on deforestation. peatland forest is critical for maintaining biodeversity and it`s degradation releases vast stores of carbon thereby contributing to global climate change Enlarge Image

EU leaders must help SBY to protect Indonesia’s forests: Greenpeace

Greenpeace activists placed two 20 x 50 meter banners with the portraits of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy on recently cleared peat land in Sumatra, ahead of the European Union leaders summit that begins in Brussels on October 29.

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Hundreds of Greenpeace activists and supporters call on SBY to take climate action

November 21, 2009

Greenpeace calls on Indonesian government to arrest forest destroyers instead of harassing climate defenders

November 20, 2009

Indonesian authorities evict climate defenders under pressure from forest criminals

November 15, 2009

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