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Losing Sight of the Forest for the Trees

Published on 12 Sep 2001

The growth of Indonesia's paper industry shows what happens when investors don't grasp the fundamentals

Last March, Asia Pulp & Paper, the world's largest emerging-market corporate debtor, sus­pended payments of interest and principal on roughly $13.4 billion in outstanding obligations. APP's massive default has brought to an abrupt halt the seven-fold expansion of Indonesia's pulp and paper sector over the past decade. However, the scale of the problem may not be fully understood yet.

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