INTERVIEW:China's Wood Demand May Hurt Indonesia Forests

JAKARTA (Dow Jones)-Indonesia may face a surge in illegal logging if China's burgeoning paper and paperboard industry doesn't find alternative and sustainable sources of wood supply to feed its pulp mills, a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (BCM), executive said recently. China's rapidly expanding pulp and paper mills will lack adequate domestic plantations to feed those factories for the next 10-15 years, CIBC World Markets Managing Director Don G. Roberts told Dow Jones Newswires.