BUYUNG Nasution carefully examined the tire tracks at the edge of the forest. According to him those tracks belong to a vehicle of PT Keang Nam. They started to clear away the forest 25 years ago, said the 50-year-old local resident.

The road from Penyabungan in Mandailing Natal to Tabuyung village in Batang Natal is not an easy path. Passengers must endure the suffocating heat and thick dust of the 141-kilometer dirt road covered with stones and