E Java Perhutani seeking ecolabel certificates for products
September 4th, 2007
Surabaya, E Java (ANTARA News) - The East Java branch of state-owned forestry company Perum Perhutani is making systemstic efforts to obtain ecolabel certicates for its products, a spokesman said.
“We want to win international recognition that our products come from forests managed in sustainable ways,” Nurgundi, spokesman of East Java`s Perhutani Unit II, said here Friday.
The company had therefore assigned its North Banyuwangi and Madiun forest management units to strive to obtain the ecolabel certificates this year, Murgundi said.
The two units were already implementing international sustainable forest management principles as stipulated by the Forest Stewardship Council and therefore had a good chance of acquiring the ecolabel certificates, he said.
Accordingly, the company`s Ecolabel Working Group and the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) had made an evaluation of the efforts to acquire the ecolabel certificates.
Perhutani would also encourage its Saradan and Bojonegoro forest management units to obtain the certificate in 2008 and its Jatiroto forest management unit in 2009.
“Eventually, all of our forest management units in East Java will have to strive to obtain ecolabel certificates by 2015,” Murgundi said.(*)
Source: http://www.antara.co.id/en/
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