Porsea, Before and After

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

THERE was a time when the company, then called PT Inti Indorayon Utama, was branded by the local community as a polluter of the environment. The technology it used in its operation was not environmentally friendly. Today, the company, which has since been renamed PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL), is operating with a “new paradigm.” Located at Desa Sosor Ladang, Kecamatan Porsea, in the North Sumatra district of Toba Samosir, it’s now operating under new management with technology that is friendly to the environment—no longer running a rayon-producing facility believed to be the main source of pollution in the area.

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The article in this Interlude Section of Tempo magazine is being published in compliance with the Statement of Evaluation and Recommendation of the Press Council which provides for a right of reply and correction by TPL to three articles and the accompanying photographs published in the same section of Tempo’s July 5-11, 2004 edition. TPL objected to the publication of the articles which it considered incorrect and inaccurate and damaging t

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