JAKARTA. The Trade Ministry is currently revising a number of import and export policies to regain investors' trust, but the ban on the export of logs will remain in place. "We will leave open [exporting] for pulp, but log exports will stay closed," said the ministry's director of agriculture and forestry exports, Nurlaila Nur Muhammad, on Monday as quoted by Antara news agency. Previously, the Industry Ministry's director general for agro-industry, Panggah Susanto, said that any decision to boost log exports would be misguided, since the domestic processing industry still needed the material.
No lift on log export ban: Ministry
JAKARTA. The Trade Ministry is currently revising a number of import and export policies to regain investors' trust, but the ban on the export of logs will remain in place. "We will leave open [exporting] for pulp, but log exports will stay closed," said the ministry's director of agriculture and forestry exports, Nurlaila Nur Muhammad, on Monday as quoted by Antara news agency. Previously, the Industry Ministry's director general for agro-industry, Panggah Susanto, said that any decision to boost log exports would be misguided, since the domestic processing industry still needed the material.