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Sinar Mas was founded by a Chinese Indonesian tycoon, Eka Tjipta Widjaja. Sinar Mas businesses operate in different sectors such as pulp & paper, real estate, financial services, agribusiness, telecommunications, and mining. The businesses are listed in the Indonesian and Singapore stock exchanges.
Asia Pulp & Paper was founded as Tjiwi Kimia by Eka Tjipta Widjaja who at the time was a refiner of coconut oil. In 1972 he started Pabrik Kertas Tjiwi Kimia along with Taiwanese investors with the purpose of making paper. [1]
In 2022, the Ministry of Industry estimated that Indonesia's pulp and paper industry employed 161,000 workers directly and 1.2 million workers indirectly. The industry had an installed production capacity of 12.1 million tonnes of pulp and 18.3 million tonnes of paper annually, the eighth-largest in the world. [9]
The Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (Indonesian: Kementerian Badan Usaha Milik Negara, shortened as Kementerian BUMN) is an Indonesian government ministry that oversee the development of state-owned enterprises in Indonesia. The ministry is led by a Minister of State Owned Enterprises, who reports to the President. [1]
Located in the Riau province of Indonesia, APRIL operates one of the world’s largest pulp and paper mills. [8] With an annual pulp production capacity of 2.8 million tons and an annual fine paper production capacity of 820,000 tons, [9] it generates employment opportunities for 90,000 local people and represents 6.9% of Riau Province’s economic output (2009).
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Widjaja was born Oei Ek Tjhong (c. 1921 [a] –2019, born in Quanzhou, China as Oei Ėk-Tjhong) [7] He was the son of a Celebes-based trader. [8]Around 1930, he and his mother moved to Indonesia–then the Dutch East Indies–to join his father who had already settled in Makassar, Sulawesi, and he started helping his father to run a small shop.
In 2016 NGOs Greenpeace and WWF suspended partnership with APRIL Group after RAPP dug a canal through peat forest in breach of government regulation. [11] APRIL’s independent Stakeholder Advisory Committee accepted that the incident was the result of unintentional mistakes in interpreting and implementing government regulation.