The Indonesian Pulp and Paper Association (APKI) is upbeat that the industry will be able to phase out the use of timber from natural forests and convert entirely to the use of timber from forestry plantations by 2009, as required under a 2004 decree of the forestry minister. Bambang Setiono, an analyst from the Center for International Forestry Research (Cifor), said 60 percent of raw materials for the pulp and paper industry came from natural forests adjacent to forestry plantations in 2005 and the first part of this year.
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