Benefits of Forestry Moratorium

There are seven useful if we want to do actions Timber Pause. Logging interval [a moratorium on logging] is the freezing or suspension of the entire large-scale logging activities (scale industries) for certain temporary until a desired condition is reached.

The advantage of logging interval (a moratorium on logging):

- Holding down the rate of rainforest destruction in Indonesia;

- Able to monitor illegal logging and ambushes;

- Opportunity forestry industry restructuring;

- Set the tenure rights of forest resources;

- Increasing the resources of non-timber forest;

- Correcting the domestic timber market distortions;

- Restructuring and rationalization of the wood processing industry;

- Correcting over-capacity industry;

- Forcing the industry to improve the efficiency of raw materials and build the plant forests.

Losses if the logging interval (a moratorium on logging) is not done:

- Not able to monitor illegal logging activities effectively;

- Market distortions can not be repaired and waste timber will continue to occur;

- There is no compulsion for the industry to improve efficiency, delaying the development of crops and forests continue to further and further destroying the natural forests;

- The deficit amounted to U.S. forestry industry $ 2.5 billion per year from illegal logging could not be stopped;

- Forests in Sumatra will be gone at the latest within five years, and the forests of Kalimantan will be gone most in 10 years;

- Loss of foreign exchange amounting to U.S. $ 7 billion and hundreds of thousands of workers lost their jobs.