MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings has been working on reforestation in Indonesia since 2005.

Their efforts will take six years, lasting until 2011, and are focused on reforestation of approximately 300 hectares in Indonesia's Paliyan Wildlife Sanctuary. Their objective is to restore and revitalize the forest, and also prevent or reduce the number of landslides and other natural disasters.

Sumitomo Forestry is providing consultation for these efforts, from planning through to actual reforestation. In consideration of the local ecosystem, we have selected indigenous tree species for planting. We are also using agroforestry(*1) to help financially support local residents.

(*1) A combination of reforestation and cultivating agricultural crops for short-term income, designed to improve the lives of residents while the trees are growing.

Roland is a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments. They started their planting efforts in 2007 in Indonesia, from where they import cabinet components for their electric pianos.

They are working on both industrial and environmental plantation projects in their planting efforts, with consulting coming from Sumitomo Forestry.

The industrial afforestation project is designed to produce the raw materials for the cabinet components. Approximately 70 hectares have been reforested since January 2008, with logging scheduled to start in January 2012. The environmental afforestation project involves reforesting a plot of approximately 30 hectares, and will not be logged as it is designated for environmental protection. Along with the trees, we are also contributing to the local economy by cultivating fruit trees, vegetation for biomass fuel, medicinal herbs and other agricultural crops.