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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Real-time data from Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry demonstrates the country’s pulpwood production (non-mixed tropical hardwood) increased by more than 14% from January to December 2020 compared to that in the same period of 2019.
Pulpwood production rose from 40.15 million m3 from January to December 2019 to over 45 million m3 in the same period of 2020, a particularly significant upturn in the face of the global pandemic.
This real-time data has undergone a technical and legal verification process. As such, it is classified by the ministry as legal pulpwood production data sourced primarily from Indonesia’s pulpwood concessions, as well as from logging concessions which have adopted a multi-silviculture system partly for pulpwood plantations.
This outstanding performance from one of Indonesian forestry's upstream sectors ensured that downstream sectors have continued to operate, thereby avoiding large-scale lay-offs during these tough times as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread.
Crucially, the ability of the upstream-downstream forestry business sector to continue running at a stable level despite the ongoing global pandemic is among the factors boosting Indonesia’s GDP in the current recession.
The remarkable performance of the forestry industry reflects the persistent efforts of Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya in 2020 to compel the industry to work hard to prevent lay-offs as much as possible during the extremely challenging pandemic.
The charts below demonstrate Indonesia’s pulpwood production in 2019-2020, indicating an upswing of more than 14% during the 2020 pandemic year.
Export value of pulp and paper
As reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in late December 2020, Minister Nurbaya reminded observers not to lose sight of Indonesia’s forestry-related success stories last year, which were especially impressive given the struggles of functioning during a pervasive pandemic.
One of the forestry industry's great successes in 2020 was its more than USD11 billion export performance, far exceeding the minimum target set by the ministry, not to mention the positive GDP growth recorded by the forestry subsector.
The ministry’s real time data shows that despite a drop of less than 9% in the export performance of pulp and paper in the 2020 pandemic year, the value of exports during 2019 and 2020 remained above the USD6 billion level in each year.
Maintaining export performance at this level in spite of the pressures on international markets due to the pandemic is undeniably no easy feat.
In fact, the value of Indonesia’s pulp and paper exports was equal to almost 55% of the country’s total forestry exports, the major players in which are the APP and APRIL groups.
If pulpwood production from the supply chains of Indonesia’s forestry concessions remains stable in 2021, as was the case last year, the export performance trend of pulp and paper will certainly help to assure stability in the value of Indonesia's forestry exports at a major level.
Hopefully Indonesia can repeat the excellent performance of its forestry exports last year when, in defiance of the impacts of the global pandemic, it only experienced a slight dip of less than 5%, managing to maintain over 95% of the total value of the previous year.
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JAKARTA (FORESTHINTS.NEWS) - Real-time data from Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry demonstrates the country’s pulpwood production (non-mixed tropical hardwood) increased by more than 14% from January to December 2020 compared to that in the same period of 2019.
Pulpwood production rose from 40.15 million m3 from January to December 2019 to over 45 million m3 in the same period of 2020, a particularly significant upturn in the face of the global pandemic.
This real-time data has undergone a technical and legal verification process. As such, it is classified by the ministry as legal pulpwood production data sourced primarily from Indonesia’s pulpwood concessions, as well as from logging concessions which have adopted a multi-silviculture system partly for pulpwood plantations.
This outstanding performance from one of Indonesian forestry's upstream sectors ensured that downstream sectors have continued to operate, thereby avoiding large-scale lay-offs during these tough times as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread.
Crucially, the ability of the upstream-downstream forestry business sector to continue running at a stable level despite the ongoing global pandemic is among the factors boosting Indonesia’s GDP in the current recession.
The remarkable performance of the forestry industry reflects the persistent efforts of Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya in 2020 to compel the industry to work hard to prevent lay-offs as much as possible during the extremely challenging pandemic.
The charts below demonstrate Indonesia’s pulpwood production in 2019-2020, indicating an upswing of more than 14% during the 2020 pandemic year.
Export value of pulp and paper
As reported by FORESTHINTS.NEWS in late December 2020, Minister Nurbaya reminded observers not to lose sight of Indonesia’s forestry-related success stories last year, which were especially impressive given the struggles of functioning during a pervasive pandemic.
One of the forestry industry's great successes in 2020 was its more than USD11 billion export performance, far exceeding the minimum target set by the ministry, not to mention the positive GDP growth recorded by the forestry subsector.
The ministry’s real time data shows that despite a drop of less than 9% in the export performance of pulp and paper in the 2020 pandemic year, the value of exports during 2019 and 2020 remained above the USD6 billion level in each year.
Maintaining export performance at this level in spite of the pressures on international markets due to the pandemic is undeniably no easy feat.
In fact, the value of Indonesia’s pulp and paper exports was equal to almost 55% of the country’s total forestry exports, the major players in which are the APP and APRIL groups.
If pulpwood production from the supply chains of Indonesia’s forestry concessions remains stable in 2021, as was the case last year, the export performance trend of pulp and paper will certainly help to assure stability in the value of Indonesia's forestry exports at a major level.
Hopefully Indonesia can repeat the excellent performance of its forestry exports last year when, in defiance of the impacts of the global pandemic, it only experienced a slight dip of less than 5%, managing to maintain over 95% of the total value of the previous year.
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