Recommendation

violations has benn happened which are conducted by timber legality certified companies both upstream, downstream and exporters.

Recommendation

• Expanding Monitoring Actors 1. Ideally, more actors are involved in SVLK supervision, it would narrow the gap transgression, in addition to demand the necessity of the development of complaints and handling institutions for the options to maximize the coordination function between institutions that act as SVLK regulators. 2. One of the challenges of SVLK monitoring is the limit number of of indirect interest monitors, and partial; monitoring by indigenous people/local communities with an upstream and downstream approach is the future of SVLK monitoring, Why? (i) indigenous people/ local communities as much or much more than what will be monitored; (ii) indigenous people/local communities both upstream and downstream are affected subjects and beneficiary subjects in good or bad practice of forestry business; (iii) indigenous people/local communities network in multi-scale from village to inter country has been and is being developed. So, that allows upstream and downstream monitoring with duration continuously. In addition, monitoring by indigenous people/local communities impacts on the effectiveness and the efficiency of monitoring because the monitoring location is similar with the monitors location. Also, it is possible for a long-term monitoring. Efficiency is also reflected from the increase in the realization of the monitored industries.

• Substantive 1. To support the sustainability of SVLK monitoring, a new way of monitoring is needed by making indigenous people/local communities as the SVLK monitors in each living space of indigenous peopl/local communities. They are very important in two ways, such as the affected parties and also the party that influences (give impact) the implementation of forestry governance. 2. Need to do a review on the basis of knowledge in the SVLK system and implementation, where at this time, the knowledge of indigenous people/local communities are still has not become a substance in the whole system in timber legality, specifically in SVLK.

• Policy (government) 1. The role of indigenous people/local communities in SVLK monitoring would be more optimal if the data and information about SIPUHH (Forest Product Administration Information System), export - import data and other supporting data are opened to the public. The stated data will be used by the monitors as the material for analysis on findings of infringement practices in the field and as initial information for monitoring needs. The government is expected to immediately open the SIPUHH access data and other forestry data to the monitors on the findings of monitoring results by indigenous people/local communities in West Papua Province, Central Kalimantan, North Maluku, East Java and Central Java then the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) needs to strengthen the principles, standards, SVLK guidelines and assessments which related to: the arrangements regarding sanctions for Certification Body (LS) who do not carry out the procedures / terms apply, for example do not publish the assessment results, surveillance, recertification, apply V-Legal documents and non-procedural in conducting assessment and handling complaint.

2. The existence of Independent Monitors who currently have been recognized in the system, should have an adequate rights in getting support from the Government.

This support is able to be in the form of provision of funds originating from the budget State Revenue and

Expenditure (APBN), support funding facilitation from donors and support in establishing a financing mechanism through the planned certification fund. 3. The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) through the UPT Forestry and the Local Forestry Service have to tighten up the control towards the use of Supplier

Compliance Declaration (DKP). DKP is still used by big companies as a reason for not having to follow the

Timber Legality Certificate (S-LK), even though DKP was built for temporary and especially for community enterprises / SMEs

• The Implementation (Upstream – Downstream Business

Actors) 1. The needs for increasing the human resource capacity of timber business actors in order to have sufficient ability to implement the SVLK policy. The number of the skills needed; Forest Product Administration, administration and finance as well as data and information. 2. Downstream business actors must be selective in accepting logs or processed wood which is supplied from the high risk areas for illegal logging. 3. Downstream timber business actors must have a chain of custody mechanism of the wood that has been produced so that the wood received is really from a legal source.

• Support (Transnational Institutions)

One of the problems faced by the monitors: there are difficulties in accessing funding that have an impact on the monitoring work. No guarantee security and safety for, companies that ‘close’ to Military or Police and the integrity of LP&VI is questioned. Monitoring activities are mostly supported by funding from donors for the implementation process in Indonesia, there is a few monitoring activity field at the initiative of independent monitors, other issues faced by the monitors are the difficulty to get data and information where the data will affect the final monitoring results.

Support from FAO EU FLEGT in Indonesia to CSOs/NGOs and the community regarding current monitoring work is feasible to be continued in the coming year, so that the SVLK policy that have been built by the parties through a long process are able to be credible and has legitimacy from the public.