Jewels of Java

Jewels of Java is proud to offer an “eco-friendly” product: Teak.

All of our teak wood is sourced from Perum Perhutani and certified as 100% plantation grown. Perum Perhutani is the oldest teak plantation in Indonesia and covers an area of 2.5 million hectares. The plantation is owned by the Indonesian Government and consists of 1.8 million hectares of production forest and 700,000 hectares of protected forest. It takes 30 – 40 years to grow quality trees.

Teak is a renewable resource, and the teak plantations have offered economic opportunities for many past generations of Indonesians and will provide opportunities for many generations to come. Perum Perhutani works in collaboration with the local villages to ensure the plantations continue to provide for current and future generations. Rice, corn, peanuts and other cash crops are planted among the teak trees to sustain the livelihood of local farmers. Perum Perhutani uses a sophisticated bar code system called TracElite to help ensure teak is not pirated thus damaging the livelihood of the local villages and endangering the plantations conservation and management.

Conservation of the land and the forests and social responsibility on both local and a global scale go hand-in-hand. Jewels of Java is proud, through participation and association, to contribute to and support socially and economically responsible practices for today and the future.