Indonesian authorities have expelled a
second Greenpeace campaigner within a week.
Immigration officers yesterday picked up
forests campaigner Andy Tait at Jakarta’s main airport, where he was attempting
to leave Indonesia of his own volition.
However, officials detained him for
questioning before putting him on a plane and stamping his passport with an
official deportation mark.
Greenpeace executive director John Sauven
was deported on Thursday just after arriving at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport.
Posted by jamie — 19 October 2011 at 12:00am
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Italian fashion: stylish and sophisticated, but
unfortunately may be linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. As
cattle ranching is responsible for about 80 per cent of deforestation in Brazil, it is
likely that Brazilian shoe leather comes from areas of cleared rainforest. So a
team of Greenpeace activists have set up an alternative photoshoot today
outside a major industry event in Italy to remind the world's shoe and leather
companies that we can't walk all over the Amazon.
Greenpeace UK’s executive
director John Sauven was today prevented from entering Indonesia.
Sauven was blocked by
immigration officials on arrival at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport, despite having a business visa for his trip. He has been informed by
officials that he will be deported immediately.
Just before 5pm local time
(11am BST), Sauven was led away by security guards. The local Greenpeace office
are currently trying to find out how why he has been deported despite holding
all the correct paperwork. The British Embassy has been informed.
Toy
giant Mattel, the company behind Barbie, announced today that it will stop
buying paper and packaging linked to rainforest destruction following a global
campaign by Greenpeace.
As part
of its new commitments, Mattel is instructing its suppliers to avoid wood fiber
from companies “that are known to be involved in
deforestation.”
One
such company is the notorious Asia Pulp and Paper group (APP), which Greenpeace
investigators have shown to be involved in widespread rainforest clearance in
Indonesia.
Ken dumps Barbie: how our campaign launched in June
You read that right – following over half a
million emails sent by you, Barbie has realised that toying with deforestation
is no game. Mattel, the company behind Barbie, has decided that being involved
in the destruction of Indonesia's
rainforests is bad for business as well as the planet, and has dropped
deforestation from its production line.
