Co-Chairs’ Summary: Dialogue on Intensively Managed Planted Forests in Indonesia

From 5 March to 8 March, The Forests Dialogue (TFD) convened 68 international leaders from the forest products industry, finance and investment sector, labor, the NGO community,academia, government, and local indigenous and rural communities in Riau province, Indonesia for site visits and dialogue on intensively managed planted forests (IMPF). The meeting was hosted by WWF Indonesia and the APRIL Group.

The event was a continuation of The Forest Dialogue’s IMPF dialogue series, which began with a 2005 scoping dialogue in Gland, Switzerland and was followed by a site tour and dialogue in China in 2006. Summaries and presentations from both dialogues are available at www.theforestsdialogue.org/ifm.html.