Meranti Wood Suppliers | Malaysia is known as meranti wood supplier in the world, In addition, Malaysia is also the largest exporter of tropical plywood with a volume of 4.5 million cubic meters per year. Over the past five years, Malaysia has become the largest supplier of tropical timber to China. On the other hand, Indonesia, which has 38.8 million hectares of productive forest recorded only 12 million cubic meters of logs in a sustainable manner.
Actually achievement Malaysian timber exports can not be compared with Indonesia. Indonesia has stopped exporting logs since 1985 so it is natural Malaysia without a competitor drove into a major world exporter of tropical timber. Ban on log exports, although aimed at keeping the supply of the domestic industry, the domestic price cheaper make up 50 percent of the international price.
meranti timber mafia in the world | Mafia traders were given wooden tub mat red carpet. Imagine, going through the waterway there are many rivers that empty into the west coast of West Kalimantan. By land are also many street rat running along the Kalimantan border with the State of Sarawak. One of the waterway that is often used is in Ketapang. Out eroded Reducing deforestation worse, the team Anti-illegal logging Police Headquarters often combing rivers and forests in Kalimantan. By the end of this month, the operation continues to hunt down the gang Sabah (gang robbers Indonesian forests).
Over the past month, police have seized tens of thousands of cubic meters of various types of wood in various locations. Indonesia has issued regulations prohibiting the sale of logs out of the country since 2001.
Three years later, the ban applies to wood balokan. But the strict rules. Logs and wood beams stolen from Earth Borneo flow continues to the neighbor country, even to this day.
Ports Hardwood Timber, Sematan, Sarawak into a transaction. The harbor is always busy with passing motor boat from West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan. The ships carrying hundreds of cubic meters of timber stolen both unprocessed and bars. All ongoing open.
Wood was accommodated company set up specifically to deal with the Government of Sarawak timber business. Be Malaysia as the world's largest timber producer.
Ironically, Indonesia hardly ever be able to force it to stop the neighboring country into a timber fence forbidden from Indonesian forests. In the State of Sarawak, the timber industry is still very excited as if ready to prey on each timber that comes from the loggers. This is the reason why illegal logging occurs.
World Environment Investigation agent who is based in London and Washington (EIA) and EIA (Indonesia) revealed Malaysia has become an important part of the syndicate's illegal timber trade. Its role legalize any illegally harvested timber from Indonesian forest timber before throwing it into the world market at a price many times over.
Every year, the world's timber industry to absorb about 30 million cubic meters of illegal Indonesian timber. Malaysia and Singapore sent to China, India, Vietnam and even directly to the US and Europe. As a result of this illicit business of dark wood, Indonesia suffered the loss of Rp 40 trillion per year.
Pharmaceutics octopus timber businesses and the large demand for wood raw material from the Malaysian side to make illegal logging never really die. It is time for the government to direct the eye to the development of border areas.
The creation of new jobs and economic activity will be more powerful alternative to stem the rate of illegal logging operations rather than responsive and instantaneous nature.
