"As Walt Disney is a private company, we will invite it to explain what kind of boycott it attempts to do," Vice Minister of Trade Bayu Krisnamurthi said in Jakarta, Thursday.
Previously some media said that world`s biggest publisher, Walt Disney Company, decided to discontinue the use of paper from Indonesia due to tropical forest management issues that are considered illegal.
Bayu clearly denied the claims by explaining the government have always tried to ensure that exported pulp and paper products from Indonesia are qualified as environmentally friendly products.
"Even we have already issued the regulation to forbid illegal timber export recently, so we are the only country to lay down the rule," he said.
According to Bayu, the Walt Disney`s statement is unfounded as they are not defining the reason of the boycott explicitly.
The vice minister said that Indonesian pulp and paper export around the world reached US5,8 billion during last year, which consisting US4,2 billions of paper products and US1,6 billions of pulps.
Although it is estimated that the number of Indonesia`s paper exports paper to Walt Disney is small scale, yet Bayu pointed that the company has a substantial impact publications that need to be clarified.
(P012)
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