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Indonesian officials have slammed the European Union\u2019s proposal of a regulation that they say negates more than a decade of progress by the Southeast Asian country to comply with EU sustainable timber rules.<\/p>\n

Under a voluntary partnership agreement, or VPA, signed in 2011, Indonesia developed a system, known as the SVLK, to verify the legality of its timber exports to the EU. The EU recognized Indonesia\u2019s SVLK in 2016, allowing the country to issue what\u2019s known as Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) licenses for EU-destined timber products.<\/p>\n

To date, Indonesia is the only country with this formal recognition out of the\u00a015 countries\u00a0that have a timber legality agreement or are in the process of negotiating a VPA with the EU.<\/p>\n

The system is supposed to favor Indonesian timber products destined for the EU market, granting them \u201cgreen lane\u201d access that exempts them from a separate due diligence process at European ports.<\/p>\n

But a new EU deforestation\u00a0bill\u00a0introduced by the European Commission in November 2021 threatens to undo all that progress by once again subjecting Indonesian timber imports into the EU to stringent checks upon arrival.<\/p>\n

Arif Havas Oegroseno, the Indonesian ambassador to Germany, said the process of getting Indonesian timber exporters to comply with the SVLK requirements had been arduous, and that critics of the system might now feel justified in their opposition to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people who disagreed with that, [they] will say \u2018Look at that, the government is being duped by the EU, so now they have a new standard. So why do we have to go with the SVLK if there are new due diligence standards?\u2019\u201d Arif said during a recent event in Berlin.<\/p>\n

He called the EU\u2019s pivot a classic case of shifting the goal posts. He added that the VPA is a legally binding agreement that commits the EU to providing Indonesia with green lane access to EU timber markets once the country\u2019s timber legality system has approved by the EU.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause this is a legal commitment, a legal obligation, I think the EU needs to implement that legal commitment and legal obligation,\u201d he said. \u201cSo the EU due diligence regulation for me is a violation of the commitment. They say that they accept and recognize the FLEGT VPA, but at the same time they\u2019re introducing new standard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wiradadi Soeprayogo, deputy chair of HIMKI, the association of Indonesian furniture and craft producers, also lambasted the EU proposal, saying it would unduly burden Indonesian producers without any real benefit.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like we wanted to follow the SVLK, but it\u2019s the Indonesian government that was being friendly with the EU and imposed it on us,\u201d he told Mongabay. \u201cWe\u2019ve shouted [our disagreement] numerous times. But we\u2019ve accepted the SVLK as it is [now]. And now there\u2019s this new EU regulation. Is this a privilege or do they want to kill us?\u201d<\/p>\n

He called on Indonesian officials not to be dictated to by the EU.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t let us follow the desire of Europe, which gives us additional rules that don\u2019t ease [the timber businesses in Indonesia], but put a heavier cost burden on us,\u201d Wiradadi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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