BRUSSELS Indonesia’s timber industry is known for having the only legality system in the world that’s robust enough to be recognized by the European Union. And now, the country is in the process of revising that timber legality system by adding sustainability components such as geolocation so that its timbers could still be exported […]
BERLIN Indonesian officials have slammed the European Union’s proposal of a regulation that they say negates more than a decade of progress by the Southeast Asian country to comply with EU sustainable timber rules. Under a voluntary partnership agreement, or VPA, signed in 2011, Indonesia developed a system, known as the SVLK, to verify […]
Indonesia's maritime power, along with land and air forces, must be built without delay to ensure the sovereignty and prosperity of the nation, Minister .