Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was a
nonprofit organization which promote responsible management of product
certification was already used all over the world, the only one acknowledged by
Green Peace and WWF.
Today
FSC Standardization was already applied to promote responsible forest
management and was already applied on 184 million hectares of forest all over
the world involving 29,000 companies. “Meaning 29,000 companies had produced
green wood and paper, appreciated people’s right and checked the origin of raw
materials,” said Hartono Prabowo, FSC Representative in Indonesia.
Today
in Indonesia there were only 200 companies and 2 million ha of forestry already
FSC Certified. Therefore measures had been taken to increase the number, among
others by approaching the consumers to induce awareness and encourage them to demand
companies to be FSC certified. In Indonesia the products already certified were
Tetra Pak, the Kotak and Tessa tissue.
Separately
Bambang Hendroyono, Secretary General of the Ministry of Environmental Affairs
and Forestry stated in Indonesia the mandatory certificate was SVLK for
products using wood as raw meterials, while it was compulsory to manage forest
conservation.
Certification
by foreign NGO like FSC Indonesia was welcome but it should only be voluntary.
“The government do not insist producers to certify their products, but they
whish to do it for marketing purpose, by all means, do it. Without SVLK
certification the wood products are not marketable” he said.
Whatever
was being done by NGO, as long as it was not against the Law, was not
forbidden; but if it was beyond the limit Like Indonesia Pledge on Palm Oil
where forest already cleared by the Government was regarded as destruction to
the environment, it was not acceptable. “The country is ruled by the
Government, not by NGO” (SS)
Business New - September 30, 2015
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