Indonesia has become the third Asian country to seek support from the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). PEFC stakeholders are invited to provide feedback on the Indonesian Forestry Certification Co-operation's (IFCC) compliance with PEFC International's sustainability benchmark by Feb. 1.
"We appreciate the opportunity that PEFC is providing independent national forest certification systems such as IFCC to develop its own standards tailored to our national and local political, economic, social, environmental and cultural realities," Dradjad Wibowo, chairman of the IFCC, said in a statement. "PEFC's bottom-up approach has enabled Indonesian stakeholders to develop a robust standard that considers Indonesia's unique needs and therefore has the potential of wide adaptation."
PEFC stakeholders can find the IFCC proposal and comment on it here.
