This Regulation is enacted in accordance with the Forestry Law.
The objectives of the Regulation include: 1. Ensuring the harvesting of timber and forest products is able to supply raw material to the wood processing factories in a regular basis and with quality; there is a use of proper techniques; stable development of socio-economic as well as protection of environment that will help maintaining the continue regeneration of forest; and to ensure the protection of forest and forest resource to be existed with abundance and stability. 2. Ensuring that the investment of individuals and organizations in harvesting of timber and forest products to be able to have reasonable benefits.
The officers of the District Agriculture and Forestry Office shall prepare the harvest plan in production forest areas that have already been inventoried and planned for management which conducted by the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI). The harvest plan shall be in consistent with the long term management plan approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The operation of timber harvest shall take place in the production forest which is officially defined by the government and through the inventories for management and for harvesting purposes, in only the forest area where forest management plan was done aiming to ensure the continued harvest of timber and recovery to the harvestable status. The Regulation further makes provisions for: scope of authorization for the timber harvest and the harvest of forest products, timber harvest operation, management, inspection and evaluation, prohibitions on the operation of harvesting and collection of forest products, etc.