The chairman of the Association of Indonesia Forest Concession Holders (APHI), Indroyono Soesilo, has indicated that natural forest wood production reached 6.03 million cu.m in 2021 a growth of 14.4% year-on-year. Source: Tropical Timber Market Report
In addition, plantation production was 46.4 million cu.m just 1% higher compared with 2020.
Indroyono said exports increased around 30% to US$14.48 billion from the 2020 value of US$11.07 billion.
For 2022 Indroyono projects exports could be US$15-16 billion saying the markets are getting close to a pre-covid condition.
Among the nine major downstream products exported those that recorded the highest increase were wood chips with a growth of 91% year on year and panels at 83%.
Even though the export performance has improved logistical constraints are still a crucial problem that has not eased.
In related news, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS) log production fluctuated in every quarter of 2020. Production declined in the second quarter from 14.58 million cu.m in the first quarter to 13.87 million cu.m. However, there was a significant increase of log production in the third quarter and by 16.2 million cu.m in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Forests in Sumatra provide most logs and in 2020 68% of log production in Indonesia came from Sumatra (41.73 million cu.m).
Acacia species topped the list of species at 69%. Kalimantan is the second largest producer of logs with an amount of 9.71 million cu.m in 2020 with the Meranti group as the dominant species at 36% of all log production. The 3rd largest log producer in 2020 was Java producing of 7.76 million cu.m or about 13%.
In Java mixed tropical hardwood was the most widely harvested group of species.
