Cargill considers dropping palm oil supplier
Greenpeace Urges Nestle Cut All Sinar Mas Connections
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Greenpeace Southeast Asia said that contract cancellation with one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producer Sinar Mas is not enough and the food producer have to cut itschain supply related to Sinar Mas.
“Cancellation of direct contract with Sinar Mas by Nestle is not enough. They have to stop purchasing Sinar Mas products from third parties like cargill and IOI,” Greenpeace’s Forest Campaigner for South East Asia Bustar Maitar wrote in the group’s release on Wednesday (24/3).
The release came after Cargill said a few days earlier, that the company is considering cutting it ties with Sinar Mas but will not do so before Sinar Mas post itscomments on the rainforest destruction allegation.
It was a chain reaction to Greenpeace’s attack on Nestle and Sinar Mas last week, accusing Sinar Mas as the biggestrainforest destructor in Indonesia.
The group also called for President SusiloBambnag Yudhoyono to impose moratorium on forest exploitation to curb destruction rate on indonesia’s forest. It said Indonesia recorded the fastest forest destruction among other countries with rainforest, withabout 74 million hectares razed in more than half a century.
Sinar Mas tried to block Greenpeace campaigns and media coverage on its activities which saw a brief detention of a reporter with a Jakarta-based KBR68H news radio earlier this month.
ARYANI KRISTANTI
TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Greenpeace Southeast Asia said that contract cancellation with one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producer Sinar Mas is not enough and the food producer have to cut itschain supply related to Sinar Mas.
“Cancellation of direct contract with Sinar Mas by Nestle is not enough. They have to stop purchasing Sinar Mas products from third parties like cargill and IOI,” Greenpeace’s Forest Campaigner for South East Asia Bustar Maitar wrote in the group’s release on Wednesday (24/3).
The release came after Cargill said a few days earlier, that the company is considering cutting it ties with Sinar Mas but will not do so before Sinar Mas post itscomments on the rainforest destruction allegation.
It was a chain reaction to Greenpeace’s attack on Nestle and Sinar Mas last week, accusing Sinar Mas as the biggestrainforest destructor in Indonesia.
The group also called for President SusiloBambnag Yudhoyono to impose moratorium on forest exploitation to curb destruction rate on indonesia’s forest. It said Indonesia recorded the fastest forest destruction among other countries with rainforest, withabout 74 million hectares razed in more than half a century.
Sinar Mas tried to block Greenpeace campaigns and media coverage on its activities which saw a brief detention of a reporter with a Jakarta-based KBR68H news radio earlier this month.
ARYANI KRISTANTI