The Forest Restoration Project: SDGs Together donors, which consists of private companies in Japan, received a wooden plaque as a sign of appreciation from the Belantara Foundation. This event took place along with Belantara's participation in the EcoPro Exhibition activities at the SDGs Week Expo 2022 event at Tokyo Big Sight from Wednesday to Friday (7-9/12/22). This award was handed over directly by the Executive Director of Belantara Foundation, Dr. Dolly Priatna, to the leaders and representatives of APP Sinar Mas Japan Ltd. (APPJ) and other donors which has actively contributed to efforts to restore Sumatra's tropical forests through Belantara Foundation’s project the Forest Restoration Project: SDGs Together program that has been going on for the last two years.

The Forest Restoration Project: SDGs Together started in August 2020 and continues to date. This program is a restoration program located in and around the Giam Siak Kecil Bukit Batu Biosphere Reserve with the aim of restoring forest areas that have been degraded due to illegal activities and also forest fires. Through this program, Belantara has restored at least 47 hectares of land in the last two years and is targeting 30 hectares of land next year. This program also contributes to the reporting of four SDGs goals at once, goal 12 "Responsible Consumption and Production", goal 13 "Climate Action'', goal 15 "Life on Land'', and goal 17 "Partnerships for the Goals." In addition, this program also contributes to efforts to cultivate and care for rare tree seedlings such as ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), Lophostemon (Lophostemon sp.), and geronggang (Cratoxylon arborescens), and other multi-use plants.

Measuring many positive impacts of the programs that have been carried out together over the past two years, Belantara Foundation expresses its deep gratitude to all donors who have continuously provided support for the success of this program. Apart from that, Belantara also hopes that there will be more multi-stakeholder collaboration in the future.

"By being involved in the EcoPro 2022 Exhibition, we hope that multi stakeholder collaboration, especially between the government, private sector, and NGOs in efforts to protect and restore Indonesia's tropical forests can be socialized, we hope that more APPJ’s business partners will participate in supporting this movement", said Dolly.

The EcoPro 2022 exhibition is one of activities from the 2022 SDGs Week Expo. The EcoPro 2022 exhibition is an environmental exhibition that presents the latest information on future technological innovations, products, and services, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, policies - environmental protection policies, government-academic-industry collaboration, as well as various initiatives carried out by both the business world and other organizations in an effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Dr. Bambang Supriyanto (Director General of PSKL-KLHK) and his team, Dr. Zahrul Muttaqin (Forestry Attache of the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo Japan), Arief Wibisono (Trade Attache of the Indonesian Embassy in Tokyo Japan), and Yudhi Zufrial (GM Bank BNI Tokyo Japan Branch) were also visiting Belantara Foundation’s booth at the EcoPro SDGs Week Expo 2022 exhibition.