Arara Abadi is supplying raw materials to Indah Kiat, a member company of Asia Pulp&Paper (APP). Arara Abadi's acacia plantations were causing many conflicts with local people.
Land traditionally used by the indigenous Sakai people for rotation farming has also been converted into an acacia plantation.
The Sakai people who used to practise rotation farming and fishing, have been driven off the land which has become an acacia plantation owned by Arara Abadi. Now they are reduced to working as collecting rubber labors or asking for money from the cars traveling on nearby roads.
This man, from one of the villages involved in the dispute over the acacia plantation with Arara Abadi, was beaten by company employees and others for no reason at all. He is holding a wooden rod with which he was beaten.
Logs from natural forest being carried from the Arara Abadi plantation area