The implementation of the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) is often not obeyed. Denial of policies related to the protection of natural forests is still found in the field. Activists continue to urge the government to tighten supervision and provide strict sanctions for companies that have been proven to have violated the implementation of the […]

Dynamic Coordinator of the Independent Embassy’s Monitoring Network (JPIK) Muhamad Kosar said that he found industrial companies that received logs without the implementation of the timber legality verification system (SVLK). Therefore, the government must tighten supervision and provide strict sanctions for companies that have been proven to violate. Search results conducted by JPIK, Forest Watch

Bisnis.com, JAKARTA – Searching for four environmental and human rights organizations found non-compliance of companies holding license in the implementation of SVLK in North Sumatra, North Kalimantan and North Maluku. The four organizations are Forest Watch Indonesia, the Independent Forest Monitoring Network, the Nusantara Indigenous Peoples Alliance and the Community Initiative Study and Development Group.

JAKARTA, RadarPena.com – The Network of Independent Forestry Monitors (JPIK) has asked the government to be firm on companies that do not have legality in managing timber. Because of JPIK’s observation, many companies did not comply with the implementation of the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK), especially in the areas of North Sumatra, North Kalimantan

The MINISTRY of Environment and Forestry (LHK) released the initials of 23 Corporations exposed to administrative sanctions as the implications of forest and land fires (karhutla) this year. The administrative sanctions were dominated by 16 companies’ license freeze sanctions, then for government coercion in 4 companies, revocation of environmental permits in 2 companies, and 1

Indonesia’s timber legality system has not been able to stop pulp and paper giants from using illegally sourced timber, as the system is filled with loopholes, an investigation has found. According to the investigation, pulp and paper companies PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (AHL) and PT Toba Pulp Lestari (TPL) have not been compliant with the

JAKARTA, SATUHARAPAN.COM – The government of Joko Widodo has been urged to give strict sanctions to companies that violate the implementation of the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK). Based on the results of monitoring conducted by the Independent Forest Monitoring Network (JPIK), Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), and KSPPM, found a number of companies that did