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Explanation on how the alleged expropriations were conducted and the impact of the
expropriations on financial performances of publicly listed companies under APP
Group
Corporate decision making are often done by those with major power that makes
management role to protect minority shareholders are undoubtedly important. In one side,
there still exist companies - like Asia Pulp and Paper - which violates the right of the
stakeholder for a high-power conglomerate. Expropriation is the process of using one’s
control to maximize own welfare and redistribute wealth from minority shareholders to
oneself. On the other side, other forest-based are now proven to increasingly care about
making transparent report, even higher-cost sustainability report, as the stakeholder care
more about these companies social, environment, and economic impact. In all cases,
stakeholders are proven to have an influential role on ex-ante, current, and ex-post business
activity. Furthermore, company have to manage all the capital obtained, tangible and
intangible, in order to have a sustainable operation.
The reason why bank give loan to Widjaja family is because APP was the top prospect on most
banks’ target client list. In June 1999 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter issued an outperform rating
and reported that APP was well positioned for Asia’s recovery.