Forestfund - 4 December 2020, In Bogor City, independent forestry monitors gathered to discuss matters concerning the progress of timber use nowadays. With support from MFP-4 and initiated by the Independent Forest Monitoring Fund (IFMF), this meeting is an effort to initiate a breakthrough in the wider scheme of timber legality monitoring.
Based on the forest monitors experience, since the issuance of Forestry Minister Regulation No. P.38/Menhut-II/2009, one of the issues they have been facing is clash of bureaucracy in the reporting system. For this reason, application of monitoring system still requires improvement and revision. In the meeting, forest monitors endeavoured to move forward with the timber legality monitoring scheme through a territorial approach to optimise the roles of independent monitor. This scheme is expected to improve and complete the existing timber verification process.
This meeting was attended by environmental activists from various organisations such as Independent Forestry Monitor Network (JPIK), Kaoem Telapak, APIKS, Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), and Indonesia Ecolabel Organisation (LEI).