{"id":11274,"date":"2014-06-25T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/2014\/06\/25\/april-unit-to-assist-riau-province-in-firefighting\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:19:19","slug":"april-unit-to-assist-riau-province-in-firefighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/articles\/april-unit-to-assist-riau-province-in-firefighting\/","title":{"rendered":"APRIL Unit to Assist Riau Province in Firefighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulp-paper maker signs MOU; will provide training, equipment in Sumatra<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1148\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1148\" class=\"wp-image-1148 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img-20140625-wa000.jpg?w=605\" alt=\"RAPP Director, Mulia Nauli, signed MoU with Riau province government to combat forest fire\" width=\"605\" height=\"453\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RAPP Director, Mulia Nauli, signed MoU with Riau province government to combat forest fire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PEKANBARU, INDONESIA, 25 JUNE 2014 \u2013 A unit of pulp and paper manufacturer APRIL signed a Memorandum of Understanding here today to help government combat forest fires in Sumatra. PT. Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) said it has agreed to provide equipment and training in support of the Riau Province Disaster Mitigation Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The signing ceremony was witnessed by Riau Deputy Governor, Arsyad Juliandi\u00a0Rachman, Director of the Disaster Mitigation Agency and head of the Regency\u00a0Chiefs Communication Forum (Forkada).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This signing demonstrates the company\u2019s intent in collaborating on efforts to\u00a0prevent and mitigate forest fires that pose health and environmental risks,&#8221; said\u00a0RAPP Director Mulia Nauli. &#8220;We consider it necessary to work together with the\u00a0government and we are committed in deploying our resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>APRIL, through its Kerinci, Indonesia-based RAPP unit, manages plantations in\u00a0Riau Province that provide wood for its pulp and paper mill. To prevent the loss\u00a0of mill wood, the company aggressively combats fires and prohibits burning on its\u00a0land.<\/p>\n<p>RAPP said its commitment to provincial firefighting efforts will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The use of a company helicopter and water pumps;<\/li>\n<li>Firefighter training; and<\/li>\n<li>Development and equipping Fire Alert Communities (Masyarakat Peduli\u00a0Api) in 30 Riau villages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Riau Province Disaster Mitigation Agency said it will conduct joint patrols\u00a0with RAPP to prevent forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>Riau Deputy Governor Arsyad Juliandi Rachman said RAPP is the only company\u00a0in Riau province that signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Riau\u00a0Province Disaster Mitigation Agency on fire and haze prevention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The private sector plays an important role in preventing and mitigating forest\u00a0fire,&#8221; Rachman told the press after the signing ceremony on Wednesday, adding\u00a0that companies are to protect their concession areas from fire.<\/p>\n<p>APRIL operates a round-the-clock fire command center in Kerinci to monitor\u00a0weather and fire conditions. It deploys three helicopters and more than 700\u00a0firefighters to protect plantations and surrounding forests from fires.<\/p>\n<p>Said Saqlul Amri, head of the Riau Province Disaster Mitigation Agency\u00a0welcomed the cooperation with RAPP in tackling fire and haze in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope other companies would take note and demonstrate similar commitment\u00a0in finding solutions to the fire and haze problem,&#8221; Amri said.<\/p>\n<p>Fires annually pose a threat in heavily forested Sumatra during the dry months of\u00a0June-to-October. Most are deliberately started to clear land for agriculture. They\u00a0create dense clouds of haze that blanket skies from Sumatra to Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulp-paper maker signs MOU; will provide training, equipment in Sumatra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[82,386,187,391,394,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-11274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"tag-april","9":"tag-disaster-mitigation","10":"tag-forest-fire","11":"tag-haze","12":"tag-partnership","13":"tag-riau"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11276,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions\/11276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}