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ANNUAL REPORT 2011
FOREST DEPARTMENT SARAWAK
Forest Department Sarawak is responsible for monitoring and documenting forest revenue

and expenditure. As the Controller Entity, the department is accountable in planning and
monitoring, coordinating, enforcing and auditing to ensure that the procedures applied by

the relevant agencies are in accordance with the provisions of existing legislation and

answerable for the effectiveness of collecting forest revenue from the forestry sector such

as Royalty, Premium, Tariff, Permit Fees, Licence Fees, and other payments that accrue to

the Government.


REVENUE AND PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE 2011



Overall performance for the year 2011 was satisfactory and the total projected

revenue collection for the year 2011 was RM685.3 million and it was based on the target
amount of 9.5 million m of timber production for the year. Forest royalties were the largest
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contributor which contributed RM625, 453,705.76 and managed to achieve 98.52% of 2011

projected total RM634, 880,000.00. Premiums and tariffs also recorded significant

contribution after forest royalty followed by other account codes.


Total log production in 2011 was 9,610,433.54 m compared to 10,151,766 m in the
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previous year. This production was more than the targeted figures 9.50 million m per year.
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Production of hill forests recorded higher percentage, i.e. 95.96% compared to 4.04% of

production from mangrove swamps. Meanwhile, the amount of royalties collected from
hewn timber and other forest produce in 2011 amounted to RM18, 754,587.92. Based on the

State Treasury records, total revenue collected from royalties, premiums, and tariffs, fees,

permits and others for the year 2011 was RM672, 669,622.32. This achievement was

approximately 98.16% of the projected forecast of RM685.3 million.


In 2011, the trends in total annual revenue collection remained unchanged proportional to

the number of recorded timber production (Table below). Total actual revenue recorded for

of timber production. This
the year 2011 amounted to RM673 million from 9.6 million m
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figure showed a slight decrease in the actual collection of revenue in the year 2010

amounting to RM730 million from 10.1 million m of timber production (including revenue in
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2009 due to the payment of three months imposed by the Government). In 2010, the

collection of forest royalty is a major contributor to the State income of about 17% after the
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