This paper investigates the Indonesian Timber Legality Assurance (Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu, SVLK) and its nature to produce legal wood under the European Union-Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade (EU-FLEGT) system. It is intended to ensure the exporting states control over legality of wood under new forest governance and its enforcement in EU market. Using a critical legal analysis, this paper argued that the SVLK could present legality in a formalistic way, but it could not guarantee the substantial meaning of benefit for sustainability, participatory and community. Therefore this paper contributes to provide a better understanding of the application of SVLK in Indonesia, along with reflecting some recommendations, as developing SVLK for domestic market, and replicating it into other exporting natural resources products. The comprehensive approaches for enforcing SVLK can lead to accelerate sustainability in more practical and grounded sense, to improve forest governance and welfare for local people therein.

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印度尼西亚木材合法性保证体系 (SVLK)：追求森林治理的可持续性

本文调查了印度尼西亚木材合法性保证 (Sistem Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu, SVLK) 及其在欧盟森林执法治理和贸易 (EU-FLEGT) 体系下生产合法木材的性质。它旨在确保出口国控制新森林治理下木材的合法性及其在欧盟市场的执行。本文通过批判性的法律分析，认为 SVLK 可以以形式化的方式呈现合法性，但不能保证利益对可持续性、参与性和社区的实质性意义。因此，本文有助于更好地了解 SVLK 在印度尼西亚的应用，同时反映一些建议，如为国内市场开发 SVLK，并将其复制到其他出口自然资源产品中。