Mar 11, 2014. /Lesprom Network/. WWF-Indonesia and ASMINDO (Furniture Industry and Handicraft Association of Indonesia) formed a partnership aimed at “sustainable production and consumption as best practice in forest product markets, safeguarding forest value and supporting poverty reduction”, as ITTO reported.

The objective is to expand capacity building in the small and medium sized wood processing enterprises to enable their ability to conform to Indonesia’s timber legality assurance system and, through this, to emphasise the commercial link between sustainable wood product manufacture and market demand.

Through this partnership, says the press release, “stakeholders are expected to increase their technical capacity in respect of legality and strengthen the Timber Legality Verification System (SVLK) implementation in Indonesia”.