The Indonesian Plywood Industry : : A Study of the Statistical Base, the Value-Added Effects and the Forest Impact / / Robert Fenton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Fenton, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (120 p.)

Indonesia is the world's largest producer of logs from tropical rainforest. The logs are primarily used in the plywood industry which grew from virtually nothing in 1979 to become, within a decade, first, the greatest producer of tropical plywood, then the greatest exporter of all plywood, and finally, large enough to dominate all wood-panel exports. At the same time,the forests are to be sustainable by the year 2000 and so is subject to intense conservationist attention. This study takes a meticulous look at the data available and examines the value-added and economic rent methodologies used in the existing literature, and concludes that the data are highly inaccurate and the analyses made earlier are unrealistically simplistic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE INDONESIAN PLYWOOD INDUSTRY -- III. THE INDONESIAN DOMESTIC MARKET -- IV. PLYWOOD EXPORTS -- V. DISCUSSION OF THE STATISTICAL BASE -- VI. DEVELOPMENT AND SIZE OF THE PLYWOOD INDUSTRY -- VII. SAWNWOOD -- VIII. VALUE-ADDED: CALCULATION AND DISCUSSION -- IX. GOVERNMENT SHARE OF RESIDUAL STUMPAGE -- X. DISCUSSION OF THE FOREST POSITION -- XI. OUTLOOK FOR THE PLYWOOD INDUSTRY, AND CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix 1: FAO Yearbook Definition of "Plywood" -- Appendix 2: Trade and Other Classifications for Wood-based Panels -- Appendix 3: APKINDO Divisions of Plywood -- Appendix 4: Details of Value-added Calculations -- References -- The Author