{"id":4050,"date":"2017-08-07T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T04:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtcc.com.my\/mtcc-shares-experience-on-timber-certification-with-asean-senior-forestry-officials\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:51:25","slug":"mtcc-shares-experience-on-timber-certification-with-asean-senior-forestry-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/mtcc-shares-experience-on-timber-certification-with-asean-senior-forestry-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"MTCC shares experience on timber certification with ASEAN senior forestry officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YB Dato Sri visited the MTCC booth accompanied by Dato’\u00a0Nor Akhirrudin Mahmud (Director General, Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia) and Dr Megat Sany, Undersecretary, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment<\/p>\n

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Kuala Lumpur, 7\u00a0Aug 2017<\/strong> \u2013 The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) participated in an exhibition held in conjunction with the 20th<\/sup> ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry (ASOF) Meeting in Putrajaya from 26-28 July 2017. The ASOF Meeting is an annual event which gathers senior forestry officials from ASEAN Member States (AMS) to formulate and implement regional cooperation projects and activities related to forestry, conservation and timber trade. The Meeting was attended by over 80 senior officials from all AMS except Singapore.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition is in support of ASOF\u2019s aim of accomplishing sustainable forest management (SFM) and conservation of natural resources in the region, and to showcase MTCC\u2019s experience on timber certification as an impactful tool in pursuing SFM in Malaysia. \u201cMalaysia has been a leader in this region for timber certification when the MTCC was established in 1998. Through the Working Group on Pan ASEAN Timber Certification Initiative established under the ASOF platform, MTCC has been sharing its experiences and expertise in operationalizing our national scheme \u2013 the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS) – with other AMS. We are proud to highlight that the MTCS is the first tropical timber certification scheme to be endorsed by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) in the Asia Pacific region in 2009,\u201d said MTCC CEO Yong Teng Koon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCurrently only Malaysia and Indonesia have an operational national timber certification scheme in ASEAN. The implementation of a national timber certification scheme is in line with the Strategic Plan of Action for ASEAN Co-operation in Forestry (2016-2025) where all AMS are required to implement the ASEAN Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests\u201d, added Yong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Besides the ASEAN delegates, MTCC was honoured to have YB Dato Sri Dr. Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment visited the MTCC stand at the exhibition.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YB Dato Sri visited the MTCC booth accompanied by Dato’\u00a0Nor Akhirrudin Mahmud (Director General, Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia) and Dr Megat Sany, Undersecretary, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Kuala Lumpur, 7\u00a0Aug 2017 \u2013 The Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) participated in an exhibition held in conjunction with the 20th ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22872,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions\/22872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtcc.monyads.com\/bm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}