PT Berau Karetindo Lestari, PT Rimba Karya Rayatama, PT Harapan Rimba Raya, and PT Simpi Indai

December 2017 

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PT Berau Karetindo Lestari

Concession information: PT Berau Karetindo Lestari (PT BKL) is located in East Kalimantan, Berau district. Based on the 2016 IUP permit it covers an area of 7,141 hectares.

Latitude: 2.323760 Longitude: 116.984128

Deforestation: From January 2016 to November 2017, PT BKL cleared 1,490 hectares of forest. Planet imagery shows new roads and thinning suggesting clearance is on-going.

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Ownership Information:

PT Berau Karetindo Lestari is ultimately owned by the Korompis family and by Peak Capital Pte Ltd, a Singaporian based company owned by Flamire Holdings Limited (registered in the British Virgin Islands).

Both Daniel Wewengkang and Didi Ferdinand Korompis are listed in the Panama Papers for their registered assets in the Britih Virgin Islands. Their company, Solidi Silvester Korompis is also listed in the BVI (bit.ly/2C4MVh5).

Supply Chain Information:  Not Available

PT Rayatama Jaya (Ex. Rimba Karya Rayatama)

Concession Information: PT Rayatama Jaya (PT RJ) is located in East Kalimantan, Kutai Barat district. Based on the 2016 IUP permit, it covers an area of 3,912 hectares.

Latitude: -0.598296 Longitude: 115.462580

Deforestation: From March to November 2017, PT RJ cleared 240 hectares of forest. There has been 900 ha of clearance since August 2016. Newer imagery is cloudy but suggests clearance is ongoing and is expanding to the north.

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Ownership Information: 

PT Rayatama Jaya is a subsdiary of Tsani Hutani Abadi Group, ultimately owned by Centrino Investment Ltd, registered in Labuan Island.

Tsani Hutani Abadi also owns two other plantation companies in Kutai Barat, namely PT Harapan Rimba Jaya and PT Kruing Lestari Jaya.

Tsani Hutani Abadi’s president director, Mulyawan Tjandra, is an ex-executive director of Indo Agri Resources (bit.ly/2BSUbvy).

Supply Chain Information: Not Available

PT Harapan Rimba Jaya

Concession Information: PT Harapan Rimba Jaya (PT HRJ) is located in East Kalimantan, Kutai Barat district. Based on the 2016 IUP permit it covers an area of 11,717 hectares.

Latitude: -0.663915 Longitude: 115.524881

Deforestation: From March to November 2017, PT HRJ cleared 707 hectares of forest. Over 7,000 ha has been cleared since 2013.

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Ownership Information: 

PT Harapan Rimba Jaya is a subsdiary of Tsani Hutani Abadi Group, ultimately owned by Centrino Investment Ltd, registered in Labuan Island.

Tsani Hutani Abadi also owns two other plantation companies in Kutai Barat, namely PT Rayatama Jaya and PT Kruing Lestari Jaya.

Tsani Hutani Abadi’s president director, Mulyawan Tjandra, is an ex-executive director of Indo Agri Resources (bit.ly/2BSUbvy).

Supply Chain Information: Not Available

PT Duta Rendra Mulya and PT Sawit Khatulistiwa Lestari (ex PT Simpi Indai)

Concession Information: The previously PT Simpi Indai concession is now divided in two plantations: PT Duta Rendra Mulya (PT DRM) and PT Sawit Khatulistiwa Lestari (PT SKL), located in West Kalimantan, Ketungau district. Based on the 2015 IUP permit they cover respectively an area of 7,364 and 12,151 hectares.

Latitude: 0.275586 Longitude: 111.566634

Deforestation: From October 2016 to October 2017, PT DRM cleared 772 hectares of peat forest (721 ha), forest (18 ha) and peat (33 ha). PT SKL cleared 1,189 hectares of peat forest (1,166 ha) and peat (23 ha). The total deforestation for those two plantation companies amounts to 1,961 hectares for that period of time.

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Ownership Information: 

PT Duta Rendra Mulya is ultimately owned by Anthoni Salim (through PT Citra Kencana Kasita, PT Zamrud Indhapersada and PT Wahanamulia Wiranusa), Junus Sutiono and Watson Dharma (through PT Mulia Abadi Lestari).

PT Sawit Khatulistiwa Lestari is ultimately owned by Dedi Mulyadi (through PT Inovasi Cemerlang and PT Andhika Wahana Putra), Bambang Kentjono and Franciscus Xaverius Hermanto (through PT Rahmat Timur Cemerlang, PT Mega Inti Usaha, PT Adi Mulya, PT Unitama Adiusaha Shipping and PT Andhika Wahana Putra).

PT Adi Mulya also has 5.9% shares in PT Duta Rendra Mulya.

Supply Chain Information: Not Available

PT Bintuni Agro Prima Perkasa, PT Guntur Madu Agrotama, PT Kahayan Agro Plantation, and PT Mustika Agung Sentosa

November 2017 

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PT Bintuni Agro Prima Perkasa

Concession information: PT Bintuni Agro Prima Perkasa (PT BAPP) is located in Papua, Sorong province. Based on the forestland release permit it covers an area of 32,570 hectares.

Deforestation: Satellite imagery (see below) shows that 138 hectares of peat and peat forest were cleared on the eastern part of the concession from October 2016-August 2017.

Supply Chain: Based on mill vicinity (see map), PT BAPP likely supplies FFB to PT Yong Jing Investama, which does not feature on any public supplier lists.

Ownership Information: There are many linkages between PT BAPP and Salim Group:

• The plantation company is ultimately owned by Mr. Ir Daud through PT Cahaya Agro Pratama. Mr. Ir Daud is a former director of PT Duta Rendra Mulya, which is linked to Salim Group.

• Mr. Gunawan Sumantri, the president director of PT BAPP is also a former director of Salim companies: PT Duta Rendra Mulya and PT Andhika Wahana Putra. He is also the President Director of other plantation companies–PT Berau Sawit Sejahtera, PT Citra Palma Sejati, PT Duta Sejahtera Utama, PT Perdana Sawit Plantation, PT Subur Karunia Raya, PT Wahana Tritunggal Cemerlang and PT Wira Inova Nusantara [bit.ly/2jGeIeH]

• The concession has been publicly linked to Salim Group as one of four ‘secret’ plantations in West Papua, totalling 117,000ha

PT Guntur Madu Agrotama

Concession information: PT Guntur Madu Agrotama (PT GMA) is located in Bengkulu district in Sumatra and covers an area of 4,082 hectares, according to the HGU permit.

Deforestation: PT GMA deforested at least 92 hectares of forest from December 2016 to August 2017. See images below.

Supply Chain: PT GMA likely supplies FFB to PT Alno Agro Utama, owned by Anglo Eastern Plantations. Its main known buyers are GAR, Wilmar, Cargill and ADM.

PT Kahayan Agro Plantation

Concession information: PT Kahayan Agro Plantation is located in Gunung Mas Regency, Central Kalimantan, and covers an area of 17,500 hectares.

Deforestation: Between October 16, 2016 and September 26, 2017, an estimated 420 hectares were deforested (see satellite imagery below), including clearing of Bornean orangutan habitat as per the most recent orangutan distribution maps [Utami-Atmoko and al.: Orangutan Population and Habitat Viability Assessment: Final Report. IUCN, 2017]

Prior to October 2016, an estimated 3,593 hectares were cleared, including over 700 ha of orangutan habitat.

To see an animation of deforestation at PT Kahayan Agro Plantation, visit https://tinyurl.com/y8lrbmnn.

PT Kahayan Agro Clearance 10/16/2016 – 09/26/2017 (420 ha)

PT Kahayan Agro Tree Cover Loss 2000 -2016 (GLAD)

Supply chain: PT KAP likely supplies FFB to PT Tantahan Panduhup Asia, owned by Sumber Tani Agung, which is a known supplier to Wilmar.

Ownership information: PT Kahayan Agro Plantation is owned by Anglo Eastern Plantations.

Land conflicts and licensing issues at PT KAP:

Within two weeks of the acquisition of PT KAP by Anglo Eastern Plantations in 2010, the Regent of Gunung Mas issued a Plantation Business Permit (IUP) for the entire area, despite no Environmental Impact Analysis (AMDAL) having been carried out. During the subsequent AMDAL process, local Dayak communities stressed that they did not want the company on their lands.

The concerns of local people resulted in the Regent issuing a decree to PT KAP to excise local land from their concession, and banned them from negotiating land sales with local people without the regency government’s permission.

In January 2013, the Governor of Central Kalimantan issued a directive that PT KAP must comply with the Regent’s instruction, and conduct an inventory of all land claims within the concession.

Despite this, PT KAP continued its own process of acquiring land, and the directives from both the Regent and Governor appeared to have been ignored. Customary lands were not excised from the IUP area.

In 2012, a Permit for wood utilization (IPK) was issued to a third-party, PT Kahayan Hutan Lestari (KHL). Clearing and planting began on the plantation [bit.ly/2glvOhq].

In 2014, NGO reports accused PT KHL of clearing more timber on the concession than was stipulated in its license, and PT KAP of operating without a HGU license [bit.ly/2uSSq17].

PT Mustika Agung Sentosa

Concession information: PT Mustika Agro Sentosa (PT MAS), is a plantation company located in West Kalimantan with an area of 19,792 hectares, based on IUP permit.

Deforestation: Between January 2017 and August 2017, PT MAS cleared around 10 hectares of forest on the South and Northeast of its concession.

Supply chain: Based on mill vicinity (see map), PT MAS likely supplies FFB to PT Parindu or Simpang Hulu Barat, which main known buyers are Wilmar, IOI, Cargill and ADM. 

Ownership information:

• PT MAS is ultimately owned by Pribadi and Wiyono families (50/50%) through PT Citra Bumi Semesta and PT International Timber Inticor, respectively.

• Mr. Henry Pribadi, whose real name is Liem Oen Hauw, owns 77.5% shares in PT Citra Bumi Semesta, while his children own the remaining 22.5%. Mr. Henry Pribadi is one of the richest Indonesians who owns, among others, Napam cement group and the famous SCTV television network [bit.ly/2i8SA04].

• He is the cousin of Mr. Djuhar Sutanto, a very close business partner of Mr. Sudono Salim (father of Anthony Salim) and is also sitting as secretary and commissioner of some Salim’s companies [bit.ly/2g6GGQ0, bit.ly/2i8Bz6r].

• PT International Timber Inticor is owned 50/50% by Ellen and Jeffry Wiyono.