Rattan Management as a Green Businessby | 31-07-2012 21:25 |
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Kalimantan, Indonesia - Indonesia is a key country for rattan production. 80 percent of rattan on the global market comes from Indonesia. But in fact rattan industry and production within Indonesia it has narrowed its economic contribution. While on the world market, rattan products increasingly marginalized and defeated by imitation rattan products. Facing this situation, WWF Indonesia would like to empower the rattan production in sustainable system process. Rattan development can reforest an area that has been damaged. The efforts for integrating the sustainable management of rattan that includes upstream and downsteam, from production through to marketing the products, ultimately also aligned with the vision of Heart of Borneo initiative is the conservation and sustainable development. This program?s success will only be achieved if the community in and around forest areas benefit from forests, such as rattan, so they will keep and preserve the forest in the vicinity of their lives. So, from this program, we can take a lesson that we have to convince the people what our programs worth for them. We should increase their senses of belonging level by showing more benefits if they take care of it. By this way, they can join our program and have a commitment to take part in sustainable environmental protection. |
