CHAPTER EIGHT
Timber Management andRelated Policies:A Review
Ida Aju Pradnja Resosudarmo
Since the early 1970s, the forestry sector in Indonesia has played a major role in national development as the largest source of non-oil foreign exchange earnings, a promoter of industrial development and employment opportunities, and a contributor to regional development. It is therefore in the country's best interests to maintain its forest resources in a way that sustains this sector's production.
Beginning in the 1980s, growing environmental awareness led to scrutiny of the way these forest resources were being managed. Since then, there has been growing concern that Indonesia's forests are not being managed sustainably. The concept of sustainable forest ...
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