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Clearcut by APRIL, July 1998 (concession sector Langgam). Similar stumps were common in the area. |
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| The state of the roads after convoys of trucks (Pekanbaru-Rengat -road) | Harvesting by APRIL (Langgam). The trees are being pulped. | Marganti Manalu is the land right activist who has been defending the villagers in the land disputes against APRIL. Here Manalu smiles at the Pekanbaru prison after nearly a year of imprisonment for taking part in land disputes. | Old trees from rain forest on their way to APRIL's pulp mill. |
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| Acacia plantations are easily eroded. APRIL's consession sector in Cerenti. | Together with pulp plantations, also oil palm plantations are a serious threat for the rainforests. Oil palm plantation in southern Riau (Cerenti). | Villagers demostrate in Kerinci. Villagers are demanding their land to be handed back to them and compensations from the company. | APRIL considers claims by the villagers as e.g. land speculation by newcomers and does not recognise villagers tenure. At the picture an Arabic land ownership document from the time before Indonesian state. |
