A Dumai Harbor security officer along with police and immigration officials brings down a Greenpeace activist who climbed on the anchor chain of the tanker Gran Couva after crew from the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza painted "Forest Crime" on the bow and occupied the tanker for 24 hours. The ship, carrying 27,000 metric tonnes of crude palm oil for the Wilmar Company, was held up from departing to its destination Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Greenpeace is protesting against the destruction of Kampar Peninsula's peatland forest by pulp and paper and palm oil industries and is calling for the Indonesian Government to implement a moratorium on deforestation. Peatland forest is critical for maintaining biodiversity and its degradation releases vast stores of carbon thereby contributing to global climate change.