{"id":770,"date":"2015-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/press\/770\/open-letter-to-the-plantation-industry-in-indonesia\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T08:03:39","slug":"open-letter-to-the-plantation-industry-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/story\/770\/open-letter-to-the-plantation-industry-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to the plantation industry in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forest fires are once again raging out of control across Indonesia. In Pekanbaru and other cities across Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua, millions of people are suffering. A state of emergency has been declared in several regions as the authorities struggle to bring the fires under control.<\/p>\n<p>This is a humanitarian crisis caused by a man-made environmental disaster. These fires are the result of decades of forest destruction and peatland drainage by the plantation sector. It reinforces the need for Indonesia\u2019s pulp and palm oil industries to address the root cause of forest and peatland fires by implementing \u2018no deforestation\u2019 policies. Only be ensuring long-term forest and peat protection will the cycle of fire be broken.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, President Joko Widodo announced plans to fight the fires by protecting Indonesia\u2019s forests and peatlands, including improving transparency through the One Map initiative. This is exactly the right course of action to take. Over the coming weeks, companies in fire-hit areas should respond to the President\u2019s call to action by stopping routine plantation activities and prioritising fire fighting. With trust so low and the stakes so high, companies must demonstrate to the people of Indonesia that they doing all they can to get the situation under control.\u00a0In addition to deploying all possible resources to fighting fires, both inside your own concessions and in surrounding areas, Greenpeace is asking you to take these steps as part of a Fire Action Plan to help bring the crisis to the earliest possible end:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Require all suppliers to immediately stop forest clearance and any further development on peatland. Actively monitor suppliers to ensure compliance with this policy. Suspend trade with any supplier that continues clearing forest or draining peatlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-flood and implement other water management measures in critical peatland areas to mitigate fire risks, based on advice from independent peat experts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Support the Indonesian government\u2019s One Map initiative by publishing all maps for your own and suppliers\u2019 concessions through Global Forest Watch\u2019s online forest monitoring and alert system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Support an industry-wide ban on forest clearance and peatland development in Indonesia and work with other stakeholders to deliver it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once the fires have been brought under control we will need to agree industry-wide solutions to ensure that this crisis can not happen again. That must include progress with the One Map initiative and improved forest governance. The industry must also address the economic incentives for forest and peatland destruction through an industry-wide ban on trade with companies that continue to destroy forests and develop on peatland.<\/p>\n<p>We must all work together to stop this crisis. I trust that you will play your part.<\/p>\n<p>Bustar Maitar<br \/>\nGlobal Head Indonesia Forest Campaign<br \/>\nGreenpeace Southeast Asia-Indonesia<\/p>\n<div class=\"EmptyMessage\">Block content is empty. 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