Direct Action at Wilmar Refinery in North Sulawesi

Greenpeace Southeast Asia Executive Director Yeb Sano (right) and activists paint "Stop Deforestation Now" onto the hull of a palm oil tanker at the Wilmar International refinery in Bitung, North Sulawesi.

Thirty Greenpeace activists from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, UK, France Australia and members of the Indonesian rock band Boomerang, occupy a palm oil refinery belonging to Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader and supplies major brands including Colgate, Mondelez, Nestlé and Unilever.

The refinery, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, processes palm oil from major producers that are destroying rainforests in Kalimantan and Papua, Indonesia.