Following the proceeds of illegal logging in Indonesia

Abstract

Many international agreements, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), target illegal logging, although few countries have criminalised importing, re-exporting, or possessing illegally logged timber. Domestic law that targets illegal logging, beyond CITES, remains the domain of tropical timber countries such as Brazil and Papua New Guinea. Few countries have created offences for importing illegal timber (eg see US Lacey Act of 1900 (16 USC 3371-3378)). Anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory systems offer a non-traditional avenue for stemming illegal logging that do not rely on criminalising it in tropical timber destination markets (Setiono and Hussein 2005).