The
Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute (LEI) is a constituent-based organization promoting
sustainable forest management using certification standard to bridge social and
environmental needs to meet market needs. As a constituent-based organization, LEI
holds mandate from its four chambers of constituent, namely indigenous people and
community forest chamber, business chamber, NGO chamber, and eminent persons’ chamber.
In 2000, LEI became an accreditation body and a Chain of Custody certification system
was adopted. Certification for community-based forest management and plantation
forest was adopted in 2002 and 2003 respectively; while LEI’s phased approach to
sustainable forest management certification was being developed and was finally
launched in 2007.
Currently LEI is developing certification system for non-timber forest products,
and to be followed by the development of sustainable forest certification for carbon
sequestration and marine products in 2010.