Reports and updates from APRIL’s independent advisory groups and responses to stakeholder questions and concerns
The strategic collaboration with IUCN will advance conservation science and benefit the company’s conservation programmes. Businesses are “expected to move beyond pledges and deliver,” said Anderson Tanoto, RGE Managing Director. Company business and sustainability leaders
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has advised APRIL Group of the suspension of our Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the application of the FSC Remedy Framework for past harms, effective 26 September 2025. This decision
APRIL Group will commission an independent investigation of a conflict that occurred on 22 September 2025 between PT Toba Pulp Lestari[1] (TPL) personnel and protestors at an area of TPL’s forestry concessions in North Sumatra,
The Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) held an in-person meeting on 19 June 2025 to review Kalimantan Fibre operations, and receive updates on APRIL’s activities and engagements. The meeting report is available for viewing here.
As the first company globally to implement the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Remedy Framework since its launch in July 2023, we recognise the need to help enable local communities, rightsholders and other local stakeholders to
Measurable progress, environmental leadership and social impact. Those were the key takeaways from a panel discussion among members of APRIL’s Stakeholder Advisory Committee, or SAC, at their recently held Stakeholder Forum in Jakarta. For the
5 June 2025 Dear colleagues, advisors, partners and members of our sustainability community, Today, marks the tenth anniversary of the launch of APRIL’s landmark Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0. A decade on, the policy and