Jakarta, February 28, 2018. The Independent Forest Monitoring Network (JPIK) encourages the government to continue to improve regulations and implement the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK). Today JPIK issued a second report ‘SVLK: Process Towards Responsible Governance’ which contains a study of the implementation of SVLK in the period 2014-2017, within the scope of …
East Java Province has an important role in the downstream distribution of timber in Indonesia with the aim of exporting to the whole world. East Java Province is also the region with the largest number of wood industry distributions. Therefore it is necessary to have a monitoring carried out by JPIK East Java on …
In connection with the submission of responses and clarifications from PT Inti Multima Certification (IMS) by letter No. 017 / IMS-Adm / VI / 2017atas JPIK and EIA reports about STILL LICENSING FOR CRIMINAL ACTS: How the Illegal Illegal Oil Palm Company Damages the Reformation of the Wood Industry in Indonesia which was published …
Bogor, 7 June 2017. Timber logged illegally in and around a rogue oil palm plantation is being certified legal under Indonesia’s flagship timber certification system, despite repeated NGO reports to police, forestry enforcement officials, and certification professionals, a new report reveals.
The report – Still Permitting Crime – published today by Indonesia’s Independent Forest Monitoring Network (JPIK) and the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), exposes continued and renewed illegal logging in and around the palm plantation of PT Prasetya Mitra Muda (PT PMM), in Gunung Mas district, Central Kalimantan province. …
As decision makers in the European Union (EU) and timber producing countries consider the future of the FLEGT Action Plan, and its Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA), civil society organisations and platforms from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Honduras, Indonesia, Republic of the Congo, Vietnam, and Europe have issued Making VPAs work for forests, people and the climate a new briefing with recommendations for how to strengthen and upgrade the VPAs. …
