Green Certificate Fails to Stop Deforestation

Indonesia has the timber legality verification system (SVLK). Why has it failed to prevent deforestation violations in Papua?

Agung Sedayu

November 8, 2021

ONE day after President Joko Widodo signed the Glasgow Declaration at the climate change gathering Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, to stop degradation and deforestation by 2030, Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya wrote on her Twitter account on Monday, November 1: “Major developments in Jokowi’s era cannot be stopped in the name of carbon emission and deforestation.”

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