AUTHOR
TITLE
Bartley, Tim (2010)
Transitional private
regulation in practice: The
limits of Forest and Labor
Standards Certification in
Indonesia.
SOURCE
FINDINGS OF THE STUDY
- Controversy of Indonesia forest
products sector in 1990s.
- Environmental organizations
boycott tropical timber
- Europe urge to boycott tropical
timber and critique government
actions.
- Rainforest Alliance certified forest
managed by Perum Perhutani was
introduced to recognize innovative
harvesting techniques.
- Lembaga Ekolabel Indonesia (LEI)
has certified only 20 FMU covering
1.5 million ha.
- However, forest certifications is
still lack of recognition (lack of
demand for certified wood).
- At macro level, forest certification
does not successfully minimize
forest degradation, conversion
forest land to agriculture and
illegal logging.
- As 2009, there were 130 FSC COC
certificates in Indonesia which
mostly furniture factories.
- In the absence of FSC certificates,
auditors play role in use their own
standard before decide to grant
the certification.
- The logic of certification is to
evaluate the forest units that have
been used but governance does
not respect the integrity.
NOTES
Ratnasingam, Macpherson, An assessment of
Ioras (2008)
Malaysian wooden
furniture manufacturers’
readiness to embrace
chain of custody (COC)
certification
Shukri Mohamed, Sham
Shor Nahar (2015)
Forest Certification in
Malaysia: Current status
and challenges
Larsson, Stendahl and
Rood (2016)
Supply chain management
in the Swedish wood
products industry – a need
analysis
- The readiness to adopt COC
among wooden furniture
manufacturer is low
- Lack of premium price
- Limited market potential
- High cost
- the assumption of using
rubberwood as the certified
resources among manufacturer
shows the lack of understanding
among them.
- current status participation in COC
certification is still low with
participation only with 502 firms
from 3000 establishments
involved.
- Lack of awareness cause China’s
forest product industry limited to
obtain certification
- BJC industry has low COC
participation due to lack demand
in Asia market
- Firm with COC certification only
distribute their product to
environmentally sensitive market
such as USA, Europe (Romania,
Finland)
- BELUM HABIS SEBAB BOSAN
Scandinavian
Journal of Forest
Research