SINGAPORE: Commodities firm Golden Agri Resources' unit, P-T SMART, has again refute allegations that its business is harming the environment.

SMART says all concession areas owned or managed by SMART and Golden Agri are located on degraded land.

It adds that the use of the land is in accordance to national laws and regulations.

SMART was responding to claims by environmental activist group, Greenpeace.

It says contrary to Greenpeace's claims, there are no orang utan habitats in SMART's concession area in P-T Bangun Nusa Mandiri.

SMART also reiterates that before developing land, it conducts the necessary environmental assessments.

With regard to concession areas in the Papua province, SMART says it only manages a total of about 13,000 hectares, not 1 million hectares as stated by Greenpeace.

- CNA/jm