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Points that the corporate debts of Indonesia's two leading timber and paper mill companies will become threats to the forests of the country as the companies seek to pay their debts.

Reports on the successful April 23, 1998 bond offering of Asia Pulp and Paper. The company's position as one of Indonesia's largest; Amount of money raised; Analyst debate of the significance of the offering's success to the health of Indonesia's economy.

The article reports on the move of three U.S. paper companies and the United Steelworkers to file an antidumping case against China and Indonesia on September 23, 2009. Allegations of dumping tons of shiny, coated paper used in car brochures and annual reports were made against them. The complainants include NewPage Corp., Appelton Coated LLC and Sappi Fine Paper North America. They allege China of unfairly granting subsidies to its domestic paper producers and Indonesian firms of benefiting from government loans.

Motion-sensing cameras on the island of Sumatra captured video of two families of endangered tigers in a lowland forest scheduled for destruction, the World Wildlife Fund said Monday. Twelve tigers, including two adult females with cubs, passed in front of the cameras over two months between the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park and nearby mountains. Asia Pulp and Paper has plans to clear large areas of the forest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the threat posed by the global resource boom to the Merauke region of the remote Papua province in Indonesia. It notes that firms in Indonesia are lining up to develop pulp-and-paper mills in Merauke and investors from South Korea want to increase palm-oil plantations. It cites that oil and gas firm Medco Group has started construction of a wood-chip mill in a remote part of Merauke and plans to begin constructing a 500,000-metric-ton-a-year pulp-and-paper factory in 2012.

The article discusses the ecological imbalance in Indonesia due to loss of forests, which is becoming a global issue. On the island of Kaula Cenaku, one can see the world's fastest-disappearing forests. Many of the pulp and paper companies have shifted to Riau to get government concessions and establish palm oil plantations. The villagers are panicky due to their earnings going down. According to scientists, Indonesia releases more carbon dioxide through deforestation than any other country.

Reports on the implication of a regulatory crackdown at the Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Co., the banking unit of Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group, on foreign investors in the country. Background information on Sinar Mas and its APP unit; Expansion of APP by entering into foreign credit markets; Agreement between Bank Indonesia and Sinar Mas; Reason for the management purge.

The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in ''Don't Tread on Me'' T-shirts. But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty, has vigorously defended the freedom of a giant Indonesian paper company to sell its wares to Americans without paying tariffs. The institute set up Web sites, published reports and organized a petition drive attacking American businesses, unions and environmentalists critical of the company, Asia Pulp & Paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the world's largest paper companies plans to clear a large area of unprotected forest in Indonesia being used as a sanctuary for endangered orangutans, according to environmental groups working in the area. The company, Asia Pulp and Paper, intends to clear hundreds of acres of trees just outside Bukit Tigapuluh National Park on Sumatra, WWF-Indonesia and other groups said Tuesday. The forests have been used since 2002 as a release point for about 100 rehabilitated Sumatran orangutans, some orphaned when their mothers were killed, possibly by workers on nearby palm oil plantations. The company said it would create a buffer between the logging site and the national park. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Health reporters may become entangled in the same kinds of ethical conflicts they often expose when accepting industry-sponsored awards and relying on corporate public relations offices, three researchers warn. Journalism awards consisting of cash prizes and all-expense-paid trips given out by drug companies are among the more ''astonishing'' financial ties between journalists and drug companies, the authors said. The paper appears in the online edition of the British medical journal BMJ. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the tensions at the PT Inti Indorayon Utama pulp mill in Porsea, Indonesia in 2000. Complaints of communities near the pulp mill that were ignored by former President Suharto; Allegations of the opponents of the Indorayon mill; Market capitalization of the mill.