Jakarta – Greenpeace activists from Indonesia will file a report with police against PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP) for illegally clearing forest in a peatland area in Cape Kampar.

Greenpeace campaigner Zulfahmi said Friday the company had violated an industrial forest regulation, which bans the clearing of forests with peat more than 3 meters deep. The peat in Cape Kampar Forest has a depth of 5 meters.

"The police should have known about the violation of the environmental regulation when they dispersed our rally at the RAPP concession," Zulfahmi said.

The police arrested 21 Greenpeace activists for trespassing and acts of violence following the rally Thursday. The protesters tied themselves to the company's excavators during the rally.

Zulfahmi said the forest concession awarded to RAPP in Cape Kampar should be illegal as it was connected with former Pelalawan regent Tengku Azmun Jaafar, who was sentenced to 11 years in jail in September for illegally endorsing letters to use forest resources.

A former Pelalawan Forestry Office employee, Hambali, said in his testimony during Azmun's trial that a subsidiary of RAPP, PT Persada Karya Sejati, benefited from the regent's illegal policy. The company denied any link to the case.