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Loopholes in Legality: How a Ministry of Trade Decree Benefits Shadowy Timber Exporters & Undermines legal Reforms

Case Study: Violations of Numerous Regulations by Companies in the Name of SMEs Between 1998 and 2014 Indonesia fought a long battle with illegal logging. Calls to save Indonesia’s forests gained national, regional and even international attention. To improve forest governance, the Indonesian Government developed a Timber Legality Assurance System (in Indonesia, Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas

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Shadowy Brokers Exploit Loopholes in Minister of Trade Decree, Threatening Indonesia’s Timber Laws and and International Trade Agreement

Jakarta, 10 March 2016. Legal loopholes in a controversial 2015 Minister of Trade Decree are being illegally and cynically exploited by a coterie of timber traders masquerading as small and medium enterprises, significantly weakening Indonesia’s flagship timber legality scheme, a new investigative report – Loopholes in Legality – has found.

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Shadowy Brokers Exploit Loopholes in Minister of Trade Decree, Threatening Indonesia’s Timber Laws and and International Trade Agreement

Jakarta, 10 March 2016. Legal loopholes in a controversial 2015 Minister of Trade Decree are being illegally and cynically exploited by a coterie of timber traders masquerading as small and medium enterprises, significantly weakening Indonesia’s flagship timber legality scheme, a new investigative report – Loopholes in Legality – has found.

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Newsletter JPIK : Implementasi SLVK di Indonesia

Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK) merupakan instrumen pembenahan tata kelola (good governance) melalui verifikasi kepastian hanya kayu legal yang dipanen, diangkut, diolah, serta dipasarkan oleh unit usaha kehutanan Indonesia. Penerapan sistem ini sejalan dengan tujuan untuk pemberantasan ‘illegal logging’ dan ‘illegal timber trade’, yang juga diupayakan melalui pendekatan penegakkan hukum. SVLK dibangun Indonesia melalui prakarsa

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JPIK Newsletter: Implementation of SLVK in Indonesia

The Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) is an instrument for reforming good governance through verification of certainty that only legal timber is harvested, transported, processed and marketed by Indonesia’s forestry business units. The implementation of this system is in line with the aim of eradicating illegal logging and illegal timber trade, which are also pursued

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SVLK Becomes a Forestry Crime Corporation in Forest Conversion in Central Kalimantan

Palangka Raya, January 27, 2016. In 2015 the Central Kalimantan Forestry Independent Monitoring Network (JPIK) in the forestry governance sector in the upstream industry and downstream industries has found cases of violations of law. These cases have been reported legally to the Police Agency and the Forest Service, but the reports submitted are not taken

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