The lowland forests of Indonesia are the largest tracts of land of their type threatened on our planet. They are being burned, converted and otherwise lost. So it's easy. If you are going to save lowland forests, work with concessions to ensure their survival. A Through certification, there is now an emerging middle ground that permits the conservation, social and production forestry sectors to work together constructively and pragmatically.
Certification is based on long-term sustainability of forests.
From the conservation perspective, sustainable forest management will promote long-term biodiversity conservation and go a long way toward improving the current forestry practices that continue to cause alarm. A First and foremost a lack of law and order, exacerbated further by the chaos of regional autonomy. There are concessionaires who want to do better, not because of newfound vision but because they have some markets demanding better practices and a need to generate a more responsible corporate front. This appears to be largely because their concessions have been allocated in the provinces by the central government, at a time when local central government's control is questionable. The problems are based in history.