TEAK logs were heaped up in the compound of Hutan Jaya Lestari Forest Cooperative in South Konawe, a regency area in Southeast Sulawesi. Several workers were going back and forth, measuring diameters of wood and tidying up the piles to get them ready for further processing. But the difference here was that all the logs carried numbers at their respective ends.

“These numbers show the wood is legal,” said Abdul Rahman, director of PT Industr