LEI-certified com­mu­nity for­est area is increas­ing in num­ber. Two other com­mu­nity for­est man­age­ment units in Sra­gen and Mage­tan have just been cer­ti­fied, and both areas encom­pass a total of 2,004 Ha of for­est area located in in 11 vil­lages. The cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of both forests areas is the result of an advo­cacy effort per­formed by PERSEPSI (Per­him­punan untuk Studi dan Pengem­ban­gan Ekonomi dan Sosial – Asso­ci­a­tion for the Eco­nomic and Social Study and Devel­op­ment) . The two com­mu­nity for­est man­age­ment units are UM Argo Ban­cak in Mage­tan (600 Ha of for­est in 3 vil­lages) and UM Wana Rejo Asri in Sra­gen (1,404 Ha of for­est in 8 vil­lages). Both man­age­ment units passed the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion process per­formed by PT. Mutu Agung Lestari in July 2009. By 2009, the total area of community-based for­est man­age­ment units cer­ti­fied by LEI reaches a fig­ure of 16,695.35 Ha, con­sist­ing of 7 com­mu­nity for­est man­age­ment units and 1 indige­nous com­mu­nity for­est man­age­ment unit.

LEI’s CoC –cer­ti­fied for­est prod­uct indus­tries is also increas­ing in num­ber from 2 to 6 indus­tries. They are PT. Unis­er­aya (a gar­den fur­ni­ture and mold­ing man­u­fac­turer), PT. Jawa Furni Lestari (an out­door and indoor fur­ni­ture pro­ducer), and four pulp and paper mills uti­liz­ing PHTL LEI-certified raw mate­r­ial sup­plied by PT. Wira Karya Sakti. The four pulp and paper mills are sub­sidiaries of Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), i.e. PT. Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Tbk., PT. Lon­tar Papyrus Pulp & Paper Indus­try, PT. Pindo Deli Pulp and Paper Ker­awang and Per­awang Mills, and PT. Pabrik Ker­tas Tjiwi Kimia Tbk. The mills passed the CoC cer­ti­fi­ca­tion per­formed by PT. TUV Inter­na­sional Indone­sia (TUV Rhein­land Group) in August 2009.

The increas­ing num­ber of indus­tries receiv­ing LEI’s CoC cer­tifi­cate will raise the num­ber LEI-certified prod­ucts in the mar­ket. This will lead to a wider acknowl­edge­ment of LEI logo in the mar­ket.
In the efforts to enhance its com­pet­i­tive­ness and bar­gain­ing posi­tion to cope with mar­ket the demands envi­ron­men­tal issues, LEI devel­ops work pro­grams to increase the dis­tri­b­u­tion of LEI-certified prod­ucts in domes­tic and inter­na­tional mar­kets, increase the total for­est area cer­ti­fied, per­form con­tin­u­ous improve­ments for its cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tem to improve the system’s qual­ity and effec­tiv­ity and develop new cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sys­tems.
“The launch of LEI-certified paper prod­ucts shows to the world that Indone­sia is able to com­ply with the require­ments needed to process for­est prod­ucts extracted from units that imple­ment sus­tain­able for­est man­age­ment prin­ci­ple. With the intro­duc­tion of COC-LEI cer­ti­fied paper to Japan mar­ket we hope that Indone­sian paper and paper prod­ucts can gain trust from the Japan­ese mar­ket which will lead to a wider Japan­ese con­sumers’ trust .”
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