CHAPTER II
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L
ong ago, illegal logging occurred in many tropical forest
countries, included Indonesia. Illegal logging in Indonesia causes forest destruction and various environment problems included losses in the field of ecology, socio-economics, and even politics. It is marked with forest damage reaches more than 2 million ha per year with the values of loss in socio-economic and ecology in the form of climate change, landslide, flood, the damage of forest habitat/nature in the amount of IDR 530 trillion. In Indonesia, illegal logging becomes the Government concern, especially since 1990’s. beside because the timber scale which is illegally logged is far beyond the sustainable timber supply. Illegal logging is also associated with other issues, such as the loss of biodiversity and corruptive forest management practices. The rampant of illegal logging and illegal timber trade which cause a massive forest destruction gives impact to the decrease of the competitiveness of Indonesian forestry timber products in the eyes of consumers and also gives bad impact to forestry governance in Indonesia. One of the reasons why those happen because the weakness of law enforcement in forestry sector. Moreover, there is a doubt from the consumers on the ambiguity of assurance and product legality so that create bad image for Indonesia. To fight against illegal logging which is never ending and to break the forestry criminals network that is untouchable, so it needs special concern by realizing the improvement of a better forestry
