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SUSTAINABILITYROADMAP VISION

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Foreword from Aida Greenbury,Foreword from Aida Greenbury, Managing Director of

Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement, APP

This is the fourth repor t on our progress in implementing APPs wideranging Sustainability Roadmap Vision 2020, announced in June 2012.It comes nine months after the introduction of the Forest ConservationPolicy (FCP), which brought forward the moratorium on all naturalforest clearance by two years.

Since the policy was launched in February 2013 we have madeconsiderable progress in carrying out the promised High ConservationValue (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments across all38 of our suppliers concessions. As p art of the HCV assessment process,we have begun the complex task of assessing peatland in our suppliersconcessions. We have also initiated a policy of global responsible bresourcing, and begun implementing an increasingly effective social,community and conict resolution programme.

This report comes on the heels of a Greenpeace report assessingour progress in implementing the FCP. The report highlights achievementswe have made, acknowledges the continuing commitment of our seniormanagement to the policy, our transparency in report ing developments,and challenges we must address.

We welcome this report and look forward to continued engagementwith Greenpeace and other stakeholders in the future. More detailscan be found later in this document.

Our partner, TFT, continues to publish regular FCP Progress Updatesavailable through the TFT websiteand via our online monitoringdashboard. A pilot version of the dashboardwent live in June 2013and we have been consulting stakeholders on i ts content since then.We encourage you to access both the monitoring dashboard and theTFT reports as a means of tracking our progress.

As ever, your comments are welcome, and you can send these to us [email protected]

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APP is in complete agreement with the criteria Greenpeace have

set out in order to judge the short and long term success of its FCP.

This includes the continued delivery of the forest and undeveloped

peatland development moratoriums, the quality of the

High Conservation Value (HCV), High Carbon Stock (HCS),

peatland and social assessments, as well as the recommendations

and enhanced management plans that will arise from these

assessments. For more details on how APP is proposing to address

the challenges raised in the Greenpeace report, please access our

fullresponse on our website.

We welcome the clarity of advice that Greenpeace is giving

customers wishing to engage with APP, stating that ongoing

implementation of the FCP should be one of the conditions of

doing business with the company. APP believes that additional scrutiny

provided by buyers can only help APP in the continued implementationof the FCP. This level of engagement with customers will send a clear

signal to the market that the actions being taken by APP are genuine

and should be commended.

The scrutiny of Greenpeace, and many other stakeholders, has been

an important driver of our progress towards No Deforestation and

greater transparency. We remain more committed than ever to the

ambitious task we have set ourselves and look forward to continued

engagement with Greenpeace and a range of other stakeholders in

the months and years ahead.

On October 28th, Greenpeace published a progress review of our

Forest Conservation Policy (FCP). The reportassessed APPs progress

in implementing the FCP policy commitments, highlighting areas of

positive progress and ongoing challenges, as well as setting out criteria

against which to judge the short and long-term success of our FCP.

APP has welcomed the publication of the Greenpeace Progress Review.

Full details of our response to that report, including the challenges

raised, can be found on our website.

APP is pleased that the Greenpeace report has recognised our efforts

in moving ahead on key areas of the FCP implementation. That includes

our overall implementation of the natural forest and undeveloped

peatland moratoriums. The report also highlighted APPs self-disclosure

of two FCP moratorium breaches and the corrective actions it has taken

to improve the management and implementation of the FCP.

Greenpeace also welcomes our decision to introduce independent

third-party auditing of FCP implementation.

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1GREENPEACE PROGRESS REVIEW[ ]

FOURTH PROGRESS REPORT

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In September, the European and North American Environmental Paper

Networks published a reportdetailing seven performance milestones

developed by their afliated civil society organisations to help external

stakeholders assess the implementation of our FCP and Sustainability

Roadmap Vision 2020 commitments. The milestones cover the four

FCP policy commitments as well as a number of the commitments laid

out in our Sustainability Roadmap: Vision 2020.

APP welcomes the introduction of the EPN/EEPN milestones and

fully supports any measures that allow external par ties to monitor

our performance in delivering both the FCP and Roadmap

commitments.

It is for this reason that APP has committed both to the introduction

of an independent third-party auditing of FCP implementation, and

to enhanced transparency measures (such as the FCP monitoring

dashboard) that allow our stakeholders to track and monitor

our progress.

We have reviewed the EPN/EEPN performance milestones in

detail and we are condent that our implementation of the FCP

and Roadmap commitments is on track and that together with

our stakeholders we will be able to address the challenges of

implementing such an ambitious zero deforestation policy. APPs

full response on how it is addressing the targets and milestones laid

out by both the EPN and the EEPN can be found on our website.

EPN/EEPN PERFORMANCE MILESTONES

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NATURAL FOREST WOOD ACCEPTANCE DEADLINE

The monitoring and processing of natural forest wood (NFW), previouslyknown as Mixed Tropical Hardwood or MTH, cut prior to the introduction of

the moratorium has been an important concern for our stakeholders sincewe announced the Forest Conservation Policy earlier this year.

It was agreed that APPs mills would use all NFW cut prior to themoratorium and that a collaborative approach would be taken to monitorits consumption and traceability. However, following further consultation withstakeholders, we established a cut-off date, August 31 st2013, after whichno further NFW cut prior to the moratorium could enter APPs pulp mills.After this date, APPs mills would not accept any further timber from naturalforests as identied through High Conservation Value (HCV)and High Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments.

APP can conrm that as of 1stSeptember 2013, APPs mills are no longeraccepting any wood sourced from natural forests. Final stock inventorygures1 following adjustments to account for measurement uncertainty indicate that the total amount of pre-February NFW was 1,606,098 m3.Of this, 899,663 m3had been received by APPs mills by August 31st2013.

Of the remaining NFW, APPs suppliers have sold 46,494 m3to thirdparties, 56,120 m3has been allocated for internal use (e.g. infrastructure),and handling losses account for 60,541 m3. 543,280m3of NFWpulpwood remains stockpiled at APP suppliers concessions.

APPs pulp mills will now process the NFW that remains in its log yards.TFT and APP will continue to track the processing of that NFW and providedetails via APPs FCP monitoring dashboard. Independent Observers havebeen invited to join this monitoring process.

The 543,280 m3of NFW stockpiled across APP suppliers concessions isa re risk, and an end use needs to be found for it. APP is currently workingwith stakeholders and NGOs to identify an alternative use for this pulpwood.

For a breakdown of NFW processing gures please access APPs FCPMonitoring Dashboard.

1.Final stock inventory gures including all gures for the resolution of NFW cut prior to the February 5thmoratorium

were subject to very minor revisions on 1stNovember 2013, as a result of a nal stock inventory validation exercisecompleted by TFT and APP. These minor revisions supersede NFW gures presented in TFTs 4thProgress Update.

The Forest Conservation Policy

has four components:

Identication and protection of

High Conservation Value (HCV)

and High Carbon Stock (HCS)

forests

Best practicepeatland management

Social and community

engagement

Ensuring compliance

from third party suppliers

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FOREST CONSERVATIONPOLICY COMMITMENT

PROGRESS

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MORATORIUM BREACH SOUTH SUMATRA

In addition to the specic audit resulting from the RIA case, ongoing

monitoring of FCP implementation by TFT and APP identied a

moratorium breach in South Sumatra at PT. Bumi Andalas Permai

(BAP), PT. Sebangun Bumi Andalas (SBA), and PT. Bumi Mekar

Hijau (BMH), South Sumatra.

A total area of 69.45 hectares of HCS was wrongly cleared in BMH,

BAP and SBA after 1stFebruary 2013, a result of land clearance in

an area marked as a No Go zone during a pre-assessment phase

of activity.

APP requested that this pre-assessment be done in South Sumatra

to identify low risk areas for ongoing plantation development inorder to meet future pulpwood demand. Areas identied as No Go

were awaiting full HCV, HCS and peatland assessments.

The TFT/APP investigation indicated that the breach could have been

avoided if operational teams had:

a) been provided with a robust checklist of actions and

documents for formal signoff;

b) implemented more stringent supervision and

monitoring process before any land development had occurred.

No other land development operations across APPs supply base

were subjected to pre-assessments.

As a result of these cases, new procedures have now been introduced

by APP/TFT to prevent any such issues from occurring again. Not only

are we now addressing these issues, but we are also using the ndings

to improve the way we implement the FCP.

Comprehensive TFT verication reports have been published for both

of the above cases and can be accessed via APPs FCP monitoring

dashboard.

The 27.8 hectares was cleared because, like in the RIA case,

the FCP Implementation Team wrongly approved the continuation

of development on forested land allocated for community use

under the governments community livelihood area programme

(TK) without prior consultation with the JSC.

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AND HIGH CARBON STOCK (HCS) FORESTS

APP and its suppliers will only develop areas that are not forested,as identied through independent HCVF and HCS assessments.

1.1

[ Forest Clearance Moratorium ]

With the launch of the FCP, APP suppliers implemented

a moratorium on natural forest clearance effective February 1st2013.

The moratorium allows for High Conservation Value (HCV) and High

Carbon Stock (HCS) assessments to be undertaken. All areas

identied as HCV and HCS will be protected as part of an integrated

sustainable forest management plan.

Since our 3rd Roadmap Progress Update was published in June

2013, an additional moratorium breach was identied as well as

a breach of our FCP policy on new peatland development. Thesewere self-reported by APP in September 2013. Since the FCP was

announced in February 2013, there have been two forest moratorium

breaches and a peatland development breach.

APPs moratorium is in place across more than 2.6 million hectares

of APP pulpwood suppliers concession areas. The two forest

moratorium breaches have resulted in a total forest clearance of

140 hectares, in addition to the 27.8 hectare breach of new peatland

development.

MORATORIUM BREACHES PT. BDL AND PT. SPM

Following a TFT investigation of the case in PT Riau Indo Agropalma

(RIA), APPs Joint Steering Committee (JSC) ordered an urgent review

to determine whether other similar cases existed that could threaten

APPs moratorium or implementation of its FCP. As a result of that

review process, two APP pulpwood suppliers PT. Sekato Pratama

Makmur (SPM) and PT. Bina Duta Laksana (BDL) in Riau

were identied as having similar cases as the one in RIA.

A subsequent investigation conrmed no forest moratorium breach had

taken place at SPM but a breach of APPs FCP policy on new peatland

development had occurred in BDL. It was not possible to determine

whether the peatland area cleared (27.8 hectares) was HCS forest due

to the fact that assessments were ongoing in this area.
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1.2

[ HCV and HCS Assessments ]

HCV and HCS assessments are currently underway

across all 38 APP suppliers concessions across Indonesia.

Asia Pacic Consulting Solutions (APCS) is conducting HCV

assessments across 11 suppliers concessions and will complete

them by Q4 2013. Ekologika is conducting HCV assessments on

the other 27 concessions, due for completion in Q2 2014.

TFT is conducting all HCS assessments.APP will use the assessment results and recommendations

to develop a Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) plan detailing

how it proposes to go about managing and protecting all areas

identied as HCV and HCS.

Full assessments for the rst 11 concessions have now been

completed. APCS is nalising its draft reports before delivery to APP.

Assessments across the 27 suppliers concessions are ongoing in Riau,

East Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, and South Sumatra. Seven

concessions are undergoing full assessment, while 20 concessions

are in the pre-assessment stage. Ekologika aims to submit all reports

to APP by end of March 2014.

HCS assessments began in January 2013. The rst priority 20 concessions are

targeted for completion in Q4 2013 with the remaining 18 due in early 2014.

The rst wave of HCS stratication and eld assessments for the rst

priority 20 concessions is now complete. Following a team review and

additional analysis and work from external consultants, Ata Marie, a renement

stage and supplementary eldwork are now required to improve the correlation

between the GIS overlays (forest strata) and plot eld data. The HCS team will

initially test this process of renement in a small pilot area before deploying

across all other concessions areas.

HCV

HCS

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1.3

[ Plantation Growth & Yield Assessment ]

In 2012 and early 2013, independent Growth & Yield assessments were

undertaken to review the long-term availability of plantation bre to feed

APP pulp mills. The assessments focused on the plantation growth andpulpwood log yields of APP suppliers plantations.

In addition to an APP internal assessment, one initial assessment

was conducted by TFT and a second was done by Ata Marie Group,

a professional services group specialising in forest inventory, growth

and yield modelling and wood supply forecasting. These provisional

evaluations were completed in January 2013 and indicated that

APP will have sufcient plantation resources to meet the long-term

demand of its pulp mills. For more information, including an Ata Marie

statement on APP wood ow projections, please visit our FCP monitoring

dashboard.

TFT and APP are now reviewing and verifying baseline growth and yield

data through eld visits. This data will be used to run updated

system-wide projections on bre supply and demand analysis.

A key component of this is to strengthen APPs existing forest

architecture planning to allow for an upgrade to a more integrated

Plantation Yield Regulation System (PYRS).

An initial evaluation covering seven forests, one pulp mill and one paper

mill was completed at the end of June. The study will be extended to all

38 suppliers concession areas and is due for completion in December

2013.

APP has been consulting with stakeholders on the content of the

dashboard. All input and feedback will be used to develop a revised

v 2.0 that will go live in early 2014.

Concession-level HCV and HCS progress data;

Details on APPs approach to FCP implementation in China;

Details on APPs approach to supplier management and assessment

Updated grievance resolution data.

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[ Progress Tracking ]

APP has introduced an updated v 1.1 of the FCP dashboard

monitoring tool. Developed in partnership with TFT, the monitoring

tool allows interested parties to track the implementation of APPs

Forest Conservation Policy. V 1.1 contains a number of updatesand improvements including:

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2.BEST PRACTICE PEATLAND MANAGEMENT

As part of the HCV assessment process being undertaken by

APCS and Ekologika, areas of peatland are being identied within

APPs supply chain.

The ndings of the HCV assessment reports and the peatland

ndings presented therein will help to inform a long-term

peatland management and monitoring plan which will be createdin consultation with an independent peat expert team. This will

be integrated

into APPs wider Sustainable Forest Management Plan.

APP has already identied a number of candidates for the

independent peat expert team, using recommendations made

by partners, NGOs and consultants. The team wil l be formalised

in due course.

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3.SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

In order to avoid and resolve social conicts across its supply chain,APP will actively seek and incorporate input and feedback from a widerange of stakeholders and civil society on a number of social policiesand procedures.

A Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was held in Jakarta on October 31st.

A continuation of the FGDs held earlier in the year, the objective wasto update stakeholders on FCP progress implementation, and to invite

input on how to address challenges and threats to the FCP. The session

was attended by over 20 NGOs, civil society organisations, and regional

and national government representatives. The challenges highlighted

during the FGD were license overlap and social conict in the

moratorium area. Options for the use of harvested NFW and the future

use of non-HCS/HCV MTH were also discussed. APP and TFT will use

all input and feedback to develop and implement action points.

Stakeholders will be invited to support in the implementation of

these actions points.

3.1

[ Transparency and engagement ]

APP will support the Government of Indonesias low emissiondevelopment goal and its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This will be achieved by ensuring that forested peatland is protected

as part of the commitment to maintain HCVF and HCS forest and

through best practice management to reduce and avoid GHG

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[ Conict mapping ]3.3

[ Social conict resolution progress ]

With the support of TFT, APP has been working to resolve a number

of ongoing conicts between APPs suppliers and local communities.

These pilot projects are being used to test APPs conict resolution

approaches and methods and they will be used as learning and capaci ty

building opportunities for APP teams as well as to build up engagement

with local communities and civil society representatives.

An ongoing land tenure conict in Senyerang village, Jambi province,

has been resolved following the signing of a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) by both parties at the Indonesian Ministry of

Forestry in Jakarta.

A number of other conict resolution pilot projects are ongoing,

including in Riau province and in South Sumatra. Details of APPs

progress with these pilot projects can be found in the social engagement

pages of our FCP monitoring dashboard.

TFT and APP-China have reviewed APP-Chinas social conict

management system and conducted interviews and site-visits to

a number of villages in North East Hainan selected from existing social

conict mapping documentation prepared by APP-China. A draft actionplan for social engagement and conict management across APP-China

operations is now being reviewed internally.

APP-China has added an additional staff member to the team to focus

specically on social engagement issues.This marked the rst step in

strengthening APP-Chinas social engagement team. APP-China and

TFT will now provide capacity development and on-site training to all

team members. APP-China staff also joined the FPIC training in

Indonesia.

APP-China, APP-HQ and TFT also held discussions with Landesa,

who in collaboration with The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI)

conducted a study of APPs social performance in its p lantation

operations in China. Landesa presented their preliminary ndings

to APP-China, APP and TFT and these were incorporated into the

aforementioned draft social engagement action plan for APP-China

operations. The ofcial report is expected to be provided to APP-China

for review and comment before the end of the year.

Conict mapping training has now been completed for more than 400

of APPs suppliers staff and managers. The aim of the training was to

familiarise staff with APPs new conict mapp ing approach and

methodology and to strengthen their ability to carry out conict

mapping. Those trained were then asked to carry out conict mapping

using the new approach and methodology.

Conict mapping has now been completed across all 38 APP

suppliers concessions.The objective of the mapping is to ensure that

social conict is identied, prioritised and managed appropriately.

TFT has reviewed the mapping results and direct technical suppor t

has been provided to align the quality of the conict mapping and

APP suppliers staff understanding of the methodology and approach.

TFT and APP are now in the process of developing action plans for all

APP suppliers to determine whether any follow-up training is needed.

APP will provide opportunities for relevant stakeholders to support

APP in the implementation of action plans to address social conicts.

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4.THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS

Indonesia

China

3.4

[ New mill development Ogan Komiring llir, South Sumatra ]

4.1

[ Global suppliers ]

APPs FCP commitments - including its no-deforestation policy and

the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of indigenous people

and local communities apply to al l of APPs future development

projects.

With the support of TFT, APP has been mapping al l communities

likely to be impacted by the new mill development at Ogan Komiring

llir in South Sumatra. An initial data analysis is complete and

FPIC training for all the new mill managers is now underway.

Once the training is completed, the FPIC process will begin.

A number of stakeholders have also raised concerns about APPs

ability to meet the forecast raw material demand of the new pulp

mill. As mentioned in Section 1.3, independent Growth and Yield

studies that were undertaken in Q3 and Q4 2012, alongside APPs

own internal assessments, have indicated that APP will have

sufcient plantation resources to meet the long term forecast

demand of its pulp mills.To follow up on these assessments, TFT and APP are now reviewing

and verifying baseline growth and yield data via eld visits.

Assessment results are expected in December 2013.

Any unforeseen or unplanned shortfall in plantation bre

as a result of unavoidable plantation wood losses (e.g. through

disease or wood handling) will, if necessary, be met through the

purchase and import of certied plantation chips from overseas

suppliers.

APPs FCP applies to all global suppliers. All Tier One2global suppli-

ers have been mapped and are being updated over time.

APP applies a supplier evaluation and risk assessment (SERA) due

diligence process to assess its global suppliers. With the help of

TFT, APP is aligning SERA with both the FCP and Responsible Fibre

Procurement and Processing Policy to ensure that global suppliers

comply with the FCP.

In China, initial risk assessments of APPs 3rd party suppliers are

ongoing. This is being done through interviews and meetings with

APP pulp and paper mills as well as through a series of on-site

visits. Activity has focused on APP-Chinas Jinhai pulp mill,

Jingui pulp mill and Gold East, an APP-China paper mill.

An independent social assessment has been conducted in

APP-Chinas pulpwood concessions. APP-China is also consulting

with stakeholders, including NGOs and government, to develop

a conservation programme at Hainan island.

Internal training at the Jinhai, Jingui and Gold East mills has also been

conducted to present the RFPPP and FCP concepts to all key personnel

from the procurement and quality control teams of all three mills.

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APP sources bre from all around the world and is developing measuresto ensure that this sourcing supports responsible forest management.

2.Supplier that directly supplies bre materials to APP mill. Tier 2 suppliers are suppliers of tier 1 suppliers

and so forth. The last tier is the forest.


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4.2

[ FCP Association Procedure ]

4.3

[ Responsible Fibre Procurement and Purchasing Policy (RFPPP)

and supplier scorecard ]

Indonesia

Following stakeholder consultations earlier in the year, APP has been

developing an Association Procedure that aims to ensure that all future

suppliers or acquisitions are compliant with our FCP and other policies.

APP shared the elements of the draft Association Procedure with

stakeholders during the last Focus Group Discussion held in Jakarta

on October 31st.

We will be seeking stakeholder feedback on the draft Association

Procedure.

In China, TFT has been working with APP on the development

of a scorecard system; a tool for monitoring both APP-China

operations and third party log/chip suppl iers against APPs RFPPP.

The scorecard places special focus on the assessment of

management practices of mills and their associated wood origins.

A rst draft of the scorecard on chip mill and wood origin for 3 rd

party chip/log supplier is being developed. A second version of

the scorecard for APP-China operations has been developed and

is now under discussion with APP-China.

China

Supplier scorecard assessments for all Indonesian suppliers

were completed in 2012 as part of a phase 1 of Responsible

Fibre Procurement and Purchasing Policy (RFPPP) activit y.

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A phase 2 of activity began in Q2 2013 and involves the development

of action plans for each supplier based on the ndings of the initial

scorecard assessments. This will continue until December 2013 at

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The FCP is designed to protect all natural forests, to conserve

forested peatland, and to avoid and resolve social conict in all

of APP suppliers concessions. This will be achieved through

the development and implementation of sustainable management

practices across those concession areas.

The development of management plans is dependent on the progress

of the various assessments currently ongoing across APP suppliers

concession areas. APP will provide more details regarding the

development of the management plans in due course.

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Forest Conservation Policy[ ]1.

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APP and all its suppliers in Indonesia.

Any Indonesian bre utilised by APPs mills elsewhere, including China.

All future expansion.

APPs Forest Conservation Policy applies to:

High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) Forests:

From 1stFebruary 2013 all natural forest clearance has been

suspended whilst HCV and HCS assessments are completed.

No further clearance of areas identied as forest will take place.

APP has conducted an initial assessment of all of i ts supply chain.

It has prioritised HCV and HCS assessments in those concessions that

up to now have been supplying the company with natural forest bre.

HCV and HCS areas will be protected.On HCS work has started to identify the area and quality of forest cover.

Satellite analysis, backed up by eld work, will identify areas that will

be protected as well as low carbon areas that can be developed as

plantations.

The HCS approach distinguishes natural forest from degraded lands

with only small trees, scrub, or grass remaining. It separates

vegetation into 6 different classes (stratication) through the

combination of analysing satellite images and eld plots. These

thresholds are known in Indonesia as: High Density Forest (HK3),

Medium Density Forest (HK2), Low Density/older regenerating

Forest (HK1), Old Scrub/regenerating forest (BT), Young Scrub (BM),

and Cleared/Open Land (LT). APPs threshold for HCS will be dened,

following eld analysis, within the category referred to as old scrub (BT).Any existing natural forest logs within APPs supply chain cut before

1stFebruary 2013, such as stocks in log yards, will be utilised by its

mills. Any bre cleared from land which is not forest, such as scrub land,

will also be utilised by its pulp mills.

APP will withdraw from all purchase and other agreements with any

supplier who is found not to be in compliance with these commitments.

These commitments are being monitored by The Forest Trust. APP will

welcome independent 3rdparty observers to verify the implementation.

Policy commitment 1:

APP and its suppliers will only develop areas that are not forested,

as identied through independent HCV and HCS assessments:

Peatland management


APP will support the Government of Indonesias low emission

development goal and its target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

(GHG). This will be achieved by:Ensuring that forested peatland is protected as part of its

commitment to maintain HCV and HCS forests.

Best practice management to reduce and avoid GHG emissions

within the peatland landscape. As part of achieving this,

no further canal or other infrastructure activities will take place

within undeveloped suppliers concessions on non-forested

peatland until independent HCV assessments including input

from peat experts has been completed.


In order to avoid and resolve social conicts across its supply chain APP

will actively seek and incorporate input and feedback from a wide range

of stakeholders, including civil society, as it implements the following set

of principles:

Social and community engagement

Free, Prior and Informed Consent of indigenous people and

local communities

Responsible handling of complaints

Responsible resolution of conicts

Open and constructive dialogue with local, national and

international stakeholders

Empowering community development programs

Respecting human rights

Recognising and respecting the rights of it s workers

Compliance to all relevant laws and internationally accepted

certication principles and criteria

Where new plantations are proposed, APP will respect the rights of

indigenous peoples and local communities, including recognition of

customary land rights. APP has committed to independent HCV

assessments as part of this commitment and will, in consultation

with stakeholders, develop further measures to implement FPIC.

APP will consult with NGOs and other stakeholders to ensure that

its protocols and procedures for FPIC and conict resolution are in

accordance with international best practice.


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APP FCP Monitoring Dashboard2.

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TFT Progress Update1.

Are accessible on APPs website.

1stTFT FCP Progress Update

2ndTFT FCP Progress Update

3rdTFT FCP Progress Update

4thTFT FCP Progress Update

Appendix BMonitoring Progress[ ]

]Appendix CGrievance and monitoring information[

Toll Free Number: 0800 1 401471

Fax: +6221-316 2617

PO-Box: 6604/JKPWK, Jakarta 10350c

Email: [email protected]

APP encourages independent observers and stakeholders to participate inthe APP Grievance and Monitoring via the contact information below:

Third party suppliers


APP sources bre from all around the world and is developing measures to

ensure that this sourcing supports responsible forest management.
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