Timber tracking technology provider Helveta is tailoring its CI World interface to support Indonesia’s efforts to cut out illegal timber exports.
Indonesia wants to use the software as it seeks to comply with the European Commission’s Forest Law Enforcement Governance & Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, designed to stamp out the trade in illegal timber and wood products.
The country is the first nation involved in the FLEGT process of Voluntary Partnership Agreements to start deployment of a technology-based timber legality assurance system.
Helveta, which has previously successfully deployed its tracking systems in Liberia, has been contracted to design an online tracking system based on the existing Indonesian legal framework on timber administration.
Using Helveta’s customised system, key stakeholders will be able to monitor the wood supply chain online in order to reduce the volume of unknown sources.
The interface is also designed to integrate data from four different existing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry information databases, which provide information on the administration of forest products, forest concessions, forest industries and reforestation funds.
The goal of the project, the “Online Integrated Information System for Wood Legality”, is to provide a fully integrated supply chain information management system for the whole of Indonesia, from source to export.
Helveta’s CI World platform will serve as the umbrella management information system to the existing databases, as well as providing complete wood flow traceability.