{"id":78990,"date":"2020-04-03T07:46:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/indonesia-end-svlk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:52:59","slug":"indonesia-end-svlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/indonesia-end-svlk\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia to end SVLK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Indonesia\u2019s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The SVLK verification system took a decade to develop and implement and has been accepted by some of the most stringent market regulators for timber legality, including the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Scrapping the licensing requirement constitutes a major setback for Indonesia\u2019s timber industry and could open the door to more illegal logging, experts warn.<\/p>\n<p>The forestry ministry, which oversees the logging industry and the SVLK system, was not consulted about the trade ministry\u2019s decision, and says it will ask for the new rule to be revised.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental experts have warned of a resurgence in illegal logging in Indonesia after the government declared that wood exports would no longer have to comply with a stringent legality check that took a decade to put in place.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new regulation issued by the Ministry of Trade in February, Indonesian timber companies won\u2019t have to obtain export licenses that certify the wood comes from legal sources. The policy scrapping the so-called v-legal (\u201cverified legal\u201d) licenses takes effect May 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe black market [for illegally logged timber] is opened up again\u201d with the scrapping of the v-legal license, said Soelthon Gussetya Nanggara, the executive director of the environmental NGO Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere might be greater impacts for our forests, [with] deforestation and illegal logging increasing,\u201d he told Mongabay.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s decision follows years of lobbying by furniture producers, who complained that obtaining the v-legal license was costly and time-consuming, and hurt their business.<\/p>\n<p>The licensing requirement had been developed over the course of a decade as the integral part of Indonesia\u2019s timber legality verification system, or SVLK, which was first rolled out in 2009. The SVLK system was meant to ensure all parties in the timber supply chain obtain their wood and timber products from sustainably managed forests and conduct their trading operations in accordance with existing laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Today, 100% of timber from both natural forest concessions and plantation forest concessions are SVLK-certified, although a small amount of timber from illegally logged areas still enters the supply chain. The SVLK system also helped improve the reputation of Indonesian timber, for decades widely known to come largely from illegal logging. In 2016 the European Union, one of the key markets for Indonesian timber and finished wood products, approved the SVLK as the basis for importing timber into its market. That made Indonesia the first country in the world to have its timber legality system recognized by the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Abandoning this painstakingly developed system constitutes a \u201cmassive setback,\u201d said Togu Manurung, a forestry economics expert from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a regression and could make the origin of timber unclear once more,\u201d he said. He warned that without certified verification, potential buyers had every reason to suspect that timber now coming from Indonesia might be illegal, \u201cstolen from Indonesian forests that have been battered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if this [regulation] is implemented, it\u2019s a massive setback and will tarnish Indonesia\u2019s image,\u201d Togu said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU authorities, trade bodies and EU and Indonesian NGOs are pressing Indonesia to change tack. NGOs are also calling on the EU trade to lobby against Regulation 15 which they say threatens to significantly damage Indonesian timber legality assurance and the international reputation of the country and its timber industry.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is the only VPA partner country to date to get to FLEGT licensing stage, starting in 2016.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia\u2019s trade ministry has scrapped a requirement for wood exporters to obtain licenses verifying their wood comes from legal and sustainably managed sources. 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