Indonesia forest fact

• Fact #1: 95 percent of exports were not legal in the early nineties.

• Fact #2: Malaysian companies have been accused of logging illegally and smuggling logs to Malaysia

• Fact #3: Illegal logging supplies 52 percent of logs. In the mid 1990s, 84 percent of timber concession holders failed to obey the law.

• Fact #4: Losses due to illegal logging estimated to be $3.5 per year in the mid nineties

• Fact #5: 84 percent of timber concessionaires do not follow the law. Illegal logging is taking place in national parks
  

• Fact #6: As much as 40 percent of the pulp and paper wood supplies come from undocumented sources

source: Contreras-Hermosilla (2001)