RI ready to enter ecolabeled furniture, handicraft product markets

"Ecolabel certificates will only be given to forest and forestry product management units which manage their forests through environment-friendly methods and allow local people to share the benefits of the forests," he said.

An American Sustainable Furniture Council executive told a workshop in Jakarta last week that the US furniture and interior products market was now focusing its attention on products made of wood taken from environment-friendly and sustainable forests. The US furniture and interior product market was recorded at $84.2 billion last year

Formerly, Indonesian Furniture Association chairperson Ambar Tjahyono said the cost of ecolabel certification amounting to Rp100 million was still considered as hindrance to the progress of the ecolabel certification program.