Indonesia’s legal system is failing to act against timber criminals, seriously undermining the country’s top-level efforts to tackle illegal logging and deforestation
The Government of Indonesia has shelved a plan to drastically dilute timber regulations put in place to lock illegal wood out of its exports to the European Union and other markets
The Indonesian Government has issued a regulation to be enacted on 27 May 2020 which will seriously undermine the credibility of its legal timber supplies to international markets
A high court in Indonesia has upheld the conviction, jail term and substantial fine of a major corrupt timber trader
As the world faces a climate, deforestation and human rights crisis, we call on the RSPO and its members to fulfill their promise of sustainability and commitment to ending deforestation, peatland destruction and violation of human rights