Illicit Timber Laundering Machine

Investigasi Bersama Tempo (Tempo’s Joint Investigation) is a collaboration between Tempo, Free Press Unlimited (the Netherlands) and Tempo Institute.

Tempo

December 24, 2018

The online system for reporting forest management and forest products, touted to have the power to prevent illegal logging and bring Indonesian timber back to the global market, has instead become a new front for allowing illegal logging to happen on a massive scale. Our eight-month investigation in Papua’s forests has shown that the timber legality verification system carries loopholes used to harvest quality timber while evading taxes and

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