Bumi Mekar Hijau, a wood supplier for Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Sinar Mas - a business group owned by tycoon Eka Tjipta Widjaja, who died at the age of 97 early last year - has been sued twice over the matter.
The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry had taken Bumi Mekar Hijau to civil court, while a criminal case was filed following police findings of criminal culpability.
Bambang (below), a forest conservation professor at the IPB University, Bogor, was part of an expert team for both of these suits...