What do forest audits say? The Indonesian mandatory forest certification Que disent les audits forestiers? La certification forestière obligatoire en Indonésie ¿Qué nos dicen las auditorías forestales? La certificación forestal obligatoria de Indonesia

Renting legality: How FLEGT is reinforcing power relations in Indonesian furniture production networks

“…Marketing is based on contacts between networks of small firms and specific traders that are linked to specific furniture shops (Burger and Smit, 2001, Purnomo et al, 2014, Purnomo et al, 2009). Internationally, they act as subcontractors and are involved in production networks managed by large firms and traders (Kusmantini, Guritno, and Rustamaji, 2015) due to lack of marketing skills and information (Purnomo et al, 2014, Van Geenhuizen and Indarti, 2005, Maryudi et al, 2015, Maryudi et al, 2017a, Maryudi et al, 2017b, Maryudi et al, 2017c). Subcontracting allows small firms to concentrate on production and leave the management and the risk of the market, with its changing tastes and fashions, to the lead firms and merchants (Burger and Smit, 2001).…”

“…Indonesia has implemented its legality assurance system, locally referred to as Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK) since 2009. In 2016, Indonesia became the first VPA country to issue a FLEGT License,1 with which Indonesian timber products freely enter EU markets (a so-called ‘green lane’), as they automatically meet EUTR requirements (EU-Commission., 2016, Maryudi et al, 2017a). Indonesia supplies approximately a third of the EU’s tropical timber imports by value (EU-Commission, 2016).…”