[Bogor, November 2, 2019] The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, also known as the RSPO, is a non-profit association that brings together all stakeholders in the world palm oil industry. Every year the RSPO routinely holds a grand event, the RSPO RT. This year the 17th RSPO RT will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from […]
Palangkaraya, Wednesday, October 23, 2019, the Palangkaraya District Court Judge Panel chaired by Judge Kurnia Yani Darmono, SH., M.Hum with Judges Mahfudin, SH., MH and Alfon, SH., MH granted KLHK’s lawsuit against PT Arjuna Utama Sawit (PT. AUS). PT AUS was declared to have committed an unlawful act on a fire that occurred at the
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Forest and land fires that still occur every year, especially in Sumatra and Kalimantan, and land conflicts with communities indicate that many things still need to be corrected by the Government of Indonesia so that the use of palm oil as a fuel source for biodiesel must come from sources that are managed sustainably and
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September 2019 is exactly one year of the issuance of Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No. 8 of 2018 concerning the Postponement and Evaluation of Palm Oil Plantation Licensing and Increasing Palm Oil Plantation Productivity. Through this policy, the government is trying to improve sustainable management of oil palm plantations, provide legal certainty, protect and protect the
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[Jakarta, 19 September 2019] Forest and land fire disasters have again hit Indonesia. Haze appears to have filled the island of Kalimantan and southern Sumatra. Now, Indonesia does not only have two seasons. There is one new season that emerged since mid-1997, the smoke season. The government seems to have tried many things to avoid
Bogor, 18 September 2019. A decade of the process of improving forest governance in Indonesia through the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) is now threatened with collapse, this is due to the proposal not to require the implementation of SVLK for export activities to America initiated by the Coordinating Minister for the Economy Darmin Nasution
President of the Republic of Indonesia (RI) Joko Widodo has approved the Revision of the Corruption Eradication Commission (RUK KPK) Law. The approval was delivered through Jokowi’s Presidential Letter Number R-42 / Pres / 09/2019 explaining that the President assigned the Minister of Law and Human Rights and the Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucracy
KPK, How’s your Fate Later? Read More »
he Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) has been in force for around 10 years in Indonesia, since the enactment of the Minister of Forestry Regulation No. P.38 / Menhut-II / 2009. Over the last 10 years, there have been many improvements to the assessment standards used to assess or verify business units that wish to
Strengthening the Timber Legality Verification System Standard Read More »
Development of the Forestry Industry in East Java East Java Province is a strategic region in the timber trade in Indonesia. Such conditions make the wood processing industry flourish in the East Java region. Based on the East Java Provincial Forestry Service Data for 2019, there are 1,084 business units holding a Timber Forest Product
SVLK Development in East Java “The Need to Build Synergy Between Authority Agencies” Read More »
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