In order to facilitate the revitalization of the forest sector while providing direction in the development of plantation forest to ensure improvements in environment quality and assistance to the low-income communities' resident in and around forest areas and satisfying the growing demands of the wood industry, the Minister of Forestry has issued Regulation No. P.31/Menhut-II/2007.
The primary function of the Forest Development Financing Center is to manage finances that are to be channeled into the development of plantation forests. The Center is responsible in a structural sense to the Minister. However, in a technical sense the Center is to be guided by the Director General of Forest Production and in an administrative sense it is to be guided by the Secretariat General.
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