Foreword

President DirectorDear Customers,

It is a great pleasure for us to introduce IDEAS Consultancy Services, as a company working on designing and maintaining a sustainable resources management principles for forest industries, forest management units, partners, Government, Associations, and all of relevant stakeholder. We understand that all of you have significant roles in your working area in how to develop such as a business planning, designing of works reflecting the environmentally-friendly ways, timber legality assurance, and adapting the Clean Development Mechanism.


In House SVLK Training for MHI

A month ago, in June 2010, IDEAS joint partnership with MHI (Mutu Hijau Indonesia) and held training about wood legality verifications, basic and advance comprehension. The training activity was held in Santika Jakarta Hotel and all staff from MHI participated. The facilitator for this training, Daru Asycarya and Wahyu Riva says, “ It’s a good step for MHI to accelerate accreditation from KAN and to upgrade MHI’s Auditor capacity,” to add, Robiyanto Kustomo (the director of MHI) says, “the participants are very enthusiastic and hope to meet both opportunities and challenges in the future.

Program for High Conservation Value Area Identification of PT Ratah Timber

Ideas Consultancy Services is implementing a program identification HCVA in one forest concession in East Kalimantan, PT Ratah Timber. In collaboration with WWF Indonesia, the program is expected to improve the performance of concessionaires in preparing for certification of SFM. PT Ratah Timber is as part of the concessions that have signed the MoU with The Borneo Initiative (TBI) in the forest certification program in Kalimantan.