Dec 14, 2005. /Lesprom Network/. The Indonesian government plans to expand the logging quota by around 30% to 11 million cubic meters from the 8.4 million cubic meters currently allowed, a minister has said. "We haven't come up with an exact policy on this (quota) yet. However, we estimate that the quota could be increased by around 30% based on the growth of trees in our industrial timber plantations," minister of forestry Malam Sambat Kaban said. The quota will include some 8.1 million cubic meters of timber felled from natural forests, with the remaining 2.9 million cubic meters coming from industrial plantations. Mr. Kaban said the rise in the quota was aimed at revitalizing the country's forestry-based industries, which it is hoped will contribute foreign exchange earnings of up to $8 billion next year from a projected $5 billion this year. The ministry also hopes to collect more taxes from the industry and from royalties on timber sales, which will then be put toward forest rehabilitation, he said.