Jakarta, 15/9 (Bis­nis Indone­sia): In order to achieve the imple­men­ta­tion of sus­tain­able for­est man­age­ment prac­tices, the Wood Legal­ity Ver­i­fi­ca­tion Sys­tem (WLVS) devel­op­ment requires sup­port from the stake­hold­ers from both forestry and other rel­e­vant non-forestry sectors.

“We need to sup­port the devel­op­ment of WLVS and it also needs to be imme­di­ately imple­mented to show the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity that Indone­sia is com­mit­ted to bat­tle ille­gal log­ging activ­i­ties, and to put sus­tain­able for­est man­age­ment into prac­tice,” said Hadi Pasaribu, the Direc­tor Gen­eral of Forestry Prod­uct Devel­op­ment, Forestry Depart­ment in Jakarta last week.

Mean­while the spokes per­son of Indone­sian Eco­la­bel Insti­tute (LEI), Indra Setia Dewi explained that in the con­text the needs to over­come ille­gal log­ging prob­lem, the Indone­sian and the British Gov­ern­ments signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing to bat­tle ille­gal log­ging activ­i­ties, on April 13, 2002. (Bisnis/et)