Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said that the country’s forestry subsector was still able to achieve positive growth in the composition of Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as of the second quarter of the year, despite the COVID-19 global pandemic.

The Indonesian Environment and Forestry Ministry has delivered the good news that there has been a recovery phase in the export performance of Indonesian forest-based industry products, starting in June this year, despite the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic.