Definitions for "IPK"
Ijin Pemanfaatan Kayu are licenses to clear land for the purposes of industrial timber and agricultural plantations, transmigration sites, and the like. Roundwood harvested from IPKs is now a vital source of hardwood for plywood mills and sawmills consuming about half, and pulp mills the other half of raw material from IPKs in the one province examined for this study. If present trends continue, IPKs will become the single most important source of roundwood in Indonesia, surpassing the total output of HPH's in about a year's time. Wood harvested from IPK's is exempted from the PSDH levy.