Hershey’s
American confectionary company Hershey’s sources palm oil from occupied West Papua via its suppliers Bunge Loders Crooklan and Fuji. At least five palm oil processing mills have been identified as supplying to Hershey’s, including three in Merauke Regency, a hotspot of deforestation and ecocide.
Merauke’s forests have been decimated to make way for vast monoculture plantations, often of palm oil and rice. Since the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) launched in 2010 with the promise to “feed Indonesia, then the world”, millions of hectares of customary land have been destroyed. MIFEE has been described as an “ecologically induced genocide” of the local Marind tribe. The native sago palm, vital to the culture of the Marind and other local tribes, has been wiped out in large parts of Merauke.
Hershey’s claims to be “Doing Well by Doing Good” for the climate and local communities, all while supporting the expropriation of West Papua’s resources and destruction of its land. Through its 90+ brands – including popular chocolates Cookies and Creme and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – the company generates profits of over $11 billion annually.
No profit from stolen land! Use your spending to tackle Hershey’s ongoing complicity in Indonesian occupation.
Kitkat Aero Smarties
These three chocolate products are made by Nestle, which sources palm oil from three mills located in occupied West Papua. In addition, Nestle has named Wilmar International as one of its main suppliers. Wilmar has been confirmed as owning palm oil processing plantations in West Papua.
All three of these products use palm oil. Because of the complexity of global supply chains, there is no publicly available way of knowing whether each individual KitKat or Aero bar contains West Papuan resources. Until Nestle stops sourcing palm oil from West Papua and profiting from stolen land, we advocate a boycott of complicit products.
Oreo Ritz
Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers are both owned by the parent company Mondelez International. Like Nestle, Mondelez has been identified as sourcing from three different palm oil mills in West Papua. As both of these products contain palm oil, any individual Ritz cracker or Oreo biscuit may containexpropriated West Papuan minerals.
Pantene Herbal Essences
Pantene and Herbal Essences are hair care products made by giant multinational company Procter and Gamble. Procter & Gamble sources palm oil from seven mills in West Papua, includes three in Merauke Regency, as well as from the northwestern ‘Bird’s Head’ peninsula, which has been the site of significant logging and military violence in recent years.
Like Nestle products, Pantene and Herbal Essences are likely to contain palm oil which may come from West Papua.
Procter and Gamble has a moral and international legal responsibility to end its complicity in Indonesia’s project of ecocide and genocide. Boycott Pantene and Herbal Essences until they withdraw their business from West Papua.