Last week I met with Mohammad Ali Rahimi, a 12 year old boy from Afghanistan, who will be the first student at Holroyd High School to benefit from a scholarship fund we have contributed to. I was at Holroyd High School on the invitation of Principal Dorothy Hoddinott to attend the school’s mid-year Young Achievers’ Presentation, …
July 2011 Blog Posts
A Significant Moment for Sumatran Tiger Preservation
Our team at the Sumatran Tiger Conservation Foundation (YPHS), working together with our colleagues at Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), is preparing for one of the most significant events in our organisation’s recent history: relocating a tiger caught in a human conflict zone to a largely untouched part of Sumatra where the big cat should …
Indonesian Youth Protecting the Future
Education is a forever gift. That simple sentence inspires Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) to always spread its wings and embrace as many parties as possible in order to work together to develop education in Indonesia. In this case, APP is supporting another aspect of learning specifically about the environmental in fun ways through the Indonesian …
Indonesian Festival in Tokyo
Last week, the second Indonesian Festival hosted by the Indonesian Embassy was held in Tokyo on July 9-10 at the Yoyogi Park. The theme of this year’s event was “Green Living, Wonderful Indonesia.” Despite amid blistering heat of 35 degrees C, about 70,000 people took part in the event. Frankly, I was amazed to see …
Sustainability, who’s talking, who’s listening
There can be no doubt that sustainability is the “hot topic” of the pulp and paper industry. So much so, that a recent North American tradeshow (Papercon), devoted nearly a full day of a three day conference to the topic. The consensus among all panelists seems to be that as an industry, we are great …







