The listed firms face follow-up questions about fire controls, Indonesian links and business impact. Ten Singapore-based companies pledged on October 28 to cooperate as authorities seek to establish who contributed to the haze.
Singapore Exchange Regulation has asked seven listed companies with plantation or agricultural operations in Indonesia for more detail on their fire controls, links to Indonesian companies served preventive-measure notices and possible business exposure. The October 28 follow-up is meant to help investors and other stakeholders judge the companies' earlier disclosures and how much the fires and haze may affect them.
At a meeting that day, representatives of ten Singapore-based companies given haze-related notices pledged to cooperate fully with the investigations, CNA said. Senior Minister K Shanmugam said authorities did not yet know the full extent of the companies' involvement and warned against treating them as guilty.
| Group | Companies | Current request |
|---|---|---|
| Seven Singapore-listed firms | Golden Agri Resources, Bumitama Agri, First Resources, Wilmar International, Kencana Agri, Indofood Agri Resources and TSH Resources | Disclose fire controls, links to the Indonesian notice recipients, any official queries or investigations, and the board’s reasons for judging whether the haze materially affects the business. |
| Ten companies in Indonesia |
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| Seven served on October 16 over fires in Sumatra; three more on October 19 over fires in Kalimantan. |
| Deploy firefighters on land they own or occupy, stop or avoid burning there, and submit plans to put out fires or prevent their spread or return. |
| Ten Singapore-registered firms | Bumitama Agri, First Resources, Indofood Agri Resources, Kencana Agri, Wilmar International, two Asia Pulp & Paper companies, Golden Agri International, TSH Global Plantation and TSH Oversea. | Provide documents on related companies, Indonesian land concessions (rights to use specified land), fire prevention and firefighting under notices issued on October 23. The firms operate in palm oil or forestry and hold Indonesian concessions themselves or through related companies. |
Singapore Exchange Regulation asks the companies to disclose their policies and measures for monitoring, preventing and responding to fires in Indonesia, and the basis for assessing those measures as adequate and effective.
The National Environment Agency’s October 23 notice distinguishes the Indonesian preventive-measure notices from the Singapore firms' requests for documents. The seven exchange-queried companies are another group: some names overlap, but Golden Agri International and the two TSH entities on the agency’s Singapore list differ from the listed companies Golden Agri Resources and TSH Resources.
The follow-up comes after the exchange’s October 15 questions about the fires' effect on operations, whether companies' activities might have contributed to haze and what they were doing in response. Bumitama Agri, First Resources and Kencana Agri expressed willingness to cooperate and pointed to their zero-burning policies in earlier replies, The Edge Singapore said.
Analysis
Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, Shanmugam and Environment Minister Grace Fu met representatives of the ten Singapore-based notice recipients on October 28. Executives from the seven listed businesses attended, while a Sinar Mas Group adviser represented the two Asia Pulp & Paper companies. Shanmugam said the inquiry would examine operations, corporate relationships and supply chains to establish whether companies had contributed to the fires. Fu said Singaporeans should not bear the consequences of irresponsible business practices.
Singapore’s government plans to appoint a specialist panel for cross-border inquiries. Shanmugam said an identified company would pay for an investigations firm and a law firm chosen from the panel as directed by the National Environment Agency. The law firm would advise investigators, not the company; assessors would receive access to relevant people, premises and records, then submit findings to the agency. The government has appointed Davinder Singh Chambers to advise on coordinating the panel’s work, with Davinder Singh advising on the conduct of the inquiries.
Singapore and Indonesia announced plans on October 27 for a joint task force to investigate companies linked to the fires. Singapore’s foreign minister said the task force was intended to coordinate action and share information between the countries.
Fu said she intends to introduce amendments to the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act at the next parliamentary sitting. The proposed changes would make refusing to appoint assessors or failing to cooperate fully with their investigations an offence; those obligations are not yet law.
Shanmugam said assessments could help establish that a company with a clean supply chain was not involved. If assessors found lapses, he said, the government would address them and take the company’s cooperation into account. The agency will use the assessors' findings to decide further steps, while Parliament must decide whether to enact the proposed assessment powers.
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