LEGALITY OF OUR WOOD
Our company only processes wood that is harvested from legal Indonesian and Government-approved timber concessions, registered as follows:
A. FSC
FSC stands for Forest Stewardship Council. The Forest Stewardship Council is an international non-profit, multistakeholder organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification. This organization uses a market-based approach to transnational environmental policy.
The FSC's stated mission is to "promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests".To this end, the body has published a global strategy with five goals:
1. Advancing globally responsible forest management.
2. Ensure equitable access to the benefits of FSC systems.
3. Ensure integrity, credibility, and transparency of the FSC system.
4,.Create business value for products from FSC-certified forests.
5. Strengthen the global network to deliver on goals 1 through 4.
These goals are promoted, managed, and developed through six program areas: forests, chain of custody, social policy, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance, and ecosystem services.
It claims that forests managed to its standards offer benefits to both local and wider communities, and these are said to include cleaner air and water, and a contribution to mitigating the effects of climate change.
Directly or indirectly, FSC addresses issues such as illegal logging, deforestation, and global warming and some reports indicate positive effects on economic development, environmental conservation, poverty alleviation, and social and political empowerment.
Using the FSC logo supposedly signifies that the product comes from responsible sources—environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable. The FSC label is used on a wide range of timber and non-timber products, from paper and furniture to medicine and jewelry, and aims to give consumers the option of supporting responsible forestry.
B. INDONESIAN LEGAL WOOD, SICS and SLVK
Our wood products are sourced and produced from legal Indonesian harvested wood. Verification under the Indonesian Timber Legality Assurance System, INDO-TLAS/Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu (SVLK) does just that. SICS Global Services will help our company dramatically lower its risk of inadvertent violations of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR), the US Lacey Act, Australia’s Illegal Logging Prohibition, and other timber legality regulations.
