Indah Kiat's wood

Indah Kiat's wood

I regret that your story headlined Severe wood shortage at
Indah Kiat mill on page-9 in the March 24, 1995 issue had been
written without rechecking the figures at our company.

The story misquoted me regarding the harvestable area of Indah
Kiat's timber estates. I did not say during a hearing between PT
Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper with Commission V of the House of
Representatives that the area of timber estates ready for harvest
totaled 30,000 hectares.

I did say that the annual work plan (covering land clearing,
planting, tree tending and harvesting), proposed by Indah Kiat to
the Forestry Ministry, totaled 30,000 ha. Assuming that one
hectare yielded between 100 and 200 cubic meters or an average of
100 cubic meters a year the total area would produce three
million cubic meters or about 80 percent of the wood inputs
required by the Indah Kiat pulp mill. The remaining 20 percent
would be procured from other local suppliers.

I projected that by the year 2002, the Indah Kiat pulp mill
would be able to procure its wood inputs wholly from its timber
estates.

NYAUW KWET MEEN

Director

PT Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper

Note: The Jakarta Post did try to contact the Indah Kiat office
for comment and rechecking. But the connections seemed to be
difficult and by 17:30 hours when the connection got through the
telephone operator at the office said all Indah Kiat executives
had gone.

-- Editor