Sources of Timber and Constraints to the Timber Acquisition of Jepara‘s Small-Scale Furniture Industries
Abstract: Teak and mahogany
furniture industries in Jepara are dominated by small-scale industrial unit,
produce simple type of furniture mostly made from less than 28 cm diameter of
teak log. Timber main producers of the industries
are Perum Perhutani and village plantations.
Small-scale furniture industries characterized by limited capital,
therefore there is no log stocking behavior. This resulted in a close
interaction on log supply and demand dynamics between both traders and
industries. As a consequence of
drastic increase in the number of the
industries, one big question on
sustainability of raw material for the industries has
been emerged. Data taken from this research indicated scarcity of teak
and mahogany log. Limited capital
directs industries to blame the difficulties mainly due to increasing timber
price. Additionally, the industries (and log traders) who are stand mostly in
level 2 of log distribution chain mentioned that compared to 10 years ago, there
is difficulty in obtaining bigger log diameter.
It is a very interesting finding that the industries do not certainly
sense timber scarcity as one possibility reason behind the timber
scarcity. As weakness on business resilience
has been the main characteristic of the industries, the threads would give a
direct impact to the industries soon
or later. To this,
serious efforts in maintaining
timber sustainability, shortening
timber distribution chain, together with capital strengthening seem to
be the fastest way in supporting the sustainability of the industries.
Author: Efi Yuliati Yovi, Bahruni,
and Dodik Ridho
Nurrochmat
Journal Code: jpkehutanangg090001
