INDONESIAN TIMBER LEGALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM (SVLK): IN PURSUIT OF SUSTAINABILITY IN FOREST GOVERNANCE

Authors

M. Yakub Aiyub Kadir, " Faculty of Art, Law, and Social Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom"Follow

Abstract

This paper investigates the Indonesian Timber Legality Assurance (Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu, SVLK) and its nature to produce legal wood under the European Union-Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (EU-FLEGT) system. It is intended to ensure the exporting states control over legality of wood under new forest governance and its enforcement in EU market. Using a critical legal analysis, this paper argued that the SVLK could present legality in a formalistic way, but it could not guarantee the substantial meaning of benefit for sustainability, participatory and community. Therefore this paper contributes to provide a better understanding of the application of SVLK in Indonesia, along with reflecting some recommendations, as developing SVLK for domestic market, and replicating it into other exporting natural resources products. The comprehensive approaches for enforcing SVLK can lead to accelerate sustainability in more practical and grounded sense, to improve forest governance and welfare for local people therein.

Bahasa Abstract

Makalah ini menganalisa tentang Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu Indonesia (SVLK) dan sifat sifatnya dalam memproduksi kayu yang sah sesuai hukum dalam sistem Uni Eropa tentang Penegakan Tata Kelola Hutan dan Perdagangan (EU-FLEGT). Sistem ini dibuat untuk memastian kontrol negara-negara ekportir tentang legalitas kayu dalam tata kelola kehutanan dan penegakannya di pasar Uni Eropa. Dengan pendekatan kajian hukum kritis, makalah ini berpendeapat bahwa SVLK hanya dapat memastikan legalitas kayu yang di expor secara formal, tapi belum tentu dapat memastikan subtasi dari azas kelestarian, partisipasi dan keuntungan bagi masyarakat. Karena itu makalah ini berkontribusi untuk memberikan pemahaman lebih baik tentang penerapan SVLK di Indonesia serta beberapa rekomendasi seperti mengembangkan SVLK untuk pasar domestik, dan menerapkannya untuk produk produk sumber daya alam yang lain. Pendekatan secara komprehensif dalam penegakan SVLK akan meningkatkan potensi kelestarian secara lebih praktis dan membumi, dalam rangka untuk memperbaiki tata kelola hutan demi untuk kesejahteraan masyarakat.

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Recommended Citation

Kadir, M. Yakub Aiyub (2019) "INDONESIAN TIMBER LEGALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM (SVLK): IN PURSUIT OF SUSTAINABILITY IN FOREST GOVERNANCE," Indonesia Law Review: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 6.
DOI: 10.15742/ilrev.v9n1.539
Available at: https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/ilrev/vol9/iss1/6