Update: The RSPO's Complaints Panel meeting is just days away - where they can decide to suspend Indofood. Sign the petition to urge them into action!
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Nestlé and Pepsi's palm oil business partner Indofood is the worst of the worst when it comes to producing palm oil. The Indonesian giant has got away with rainforest destruction and worker abuse for too long.
This impunity could end soon! The palm oil industry’s main certification body, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) could finally kick the rogue company off its certification scheme when it meets next week, so we need to act fast.
This decision will be a crucial step in getting Nestlé and Pepsi to finally cut deforestation and abuse out of their supply chains. Together, we can expose the RSPO’s greenwashing and put its reputation at risk so it doesn’t stick to business as usual and overlook Indofood’s gross violations.
Sign the petition to demand the RSPO suspends Nestlé’s business partner Indofood.
Owned by Indonesia’s richest man, Indofood has been exposed in multiple investigations for exploiting workers, paying poverty wages (and female workers even less), dangerous working conditions, and intimidating communities off their land for illegal deforestation.
It also ignores the RSPO’s guidelines on protecting precious orangutan habitat and is guilty of logging on carbon-rich peat land, intensifying climate chaos.
Nestlé and Pepsi are in on this game. The snack food giants co-brand products in the South Asian market, and profit from lucrative Joint Venture Partnerships with Indofood -- cheating on their palm oil commitments.
Getting the industry’s main certification scheme to suspend Indofood could force Nestlé and Pepsi to take strong action against Indofood, or risk public backlash. A suspension would give us even more evidence to call for Nestlé and Pepsi to permanently cut ties with Indofood.
There’s very little time before Nestlé’s and Pepsi's business partner gets its verdict, so please sign the petition now.
Together, we’ve forced some of the palm oil industry’s biggest players to change their destructive ways before. Last year a huge SumOfUs petition shone light on another one of Nestlé’s dodgy palm oil partners -- REPSA in Guatemala. The exposure and media fall-out forced Nestlé to cut ties with the Guatemalan palm oil offender!
The RSPO often fails to enforce its own standards, but if we pile on the pressure it could be forced to sanction Indofood. Recently, the RSPO froze Nestlé’s membership for several weeks when it failed to comply with its rules.
The suspension was a blow to Nestlé’s public image, and zoos and retailers around the world refused to stock its products for the period. That’s why we want to send a strong message to the industry by getting Indofood suspended for good.
More information
Indonesia: PepsiCo linked to worker exploitation in the palm oil sector through joint venture partner Indofood
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. 21 June 2016.
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. 21 June 2016.
RSPO Investigating Reports of Ongoing Labor Abuse at Indofood Plantations
Jakarta Globe. 11 December 2017.
Jakarta Globe. 11 December 2017.
Indonesian billionaire using ‘shadow companies’ to clear forest for palm oil, says report
Eco Business. 12 April 2018.
Eco Business. 12 April 2018.