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Brief Information about Gaharu

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:21:14 +0000

Along with human’s history of their culture and tradition, the gaharu has been being a part of it through for year to year. From the past until now, people has been using this wood for their various purposes in everywhere and every time. Therefore, even if gaharu is only able to found at Southern of Asia, the usage of this wood has been being a legend for many people in entire of the world.
In the past, people have only used this wood for their most traditional culture and medicine such as for a fragrance in a tradition ceremony or a medicine of any strange disease. Nowadays, by the development of technology and medical research, it has been founded that gaharu is able to curing some most dangerous diseases like cancer or some tumors. Furthermore, the gaharu is also able for cosmetics and aromatherapy to make people be fresh back after working hard all day.
Thus, it will be normally for us if we have seen gaharu sold in the market with high rate of its price. Due people need of this wood, the request of this wood has been increasing rapidly for year to year. Therefore, this wood has been being a worth thing and it will be more worth for the future because many scientists have predicted there still are many any other of this wood’s advantages that have not revealed yet.

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The Golden Tree

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:33:05 +0000

Everybody who has studied about medication surely will know about gaharu or more known as the eagle wood. This is a kind of wood that has many efficacies as medicine for many diseases. For long time ago, the eagle wood has actually been used for not only as medicine, but it was also for any other purposes like as camphor, aroma therapy, cosmetics, preservative, and accessories.
Due the many of the eagle wood’s advantages, there will not surprising us if this wood is worth enough and its price have rising for year to year, even it was more worth than a gold in Arab Saudi. For information, this wood can reaches more than $500 of its worth for every kilogram. This was causing the eagle wood has been being one of the scarcest goods in the world today. Many people have tried to cutting the eagle wood tree in everyday.
At this time, the eagle wood has been hard to find by us. Therefore, people have been trying to make a kind of synthetic of this wood as alternative. This will make the cutting trees of this wood can be reduced and so we can safe our environment from any illegal cutting trees.

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A Multi Purpose Wood

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:55:29 +0000

The gaharu or it was more known as eagle wood has been sold in many of its variety since long time ago. The variety of the eagle wood which has been sold in the market today is can be chunks, chips, and powder. Usually, people have used the eagle wood for many purposes include for perfume, chopstick, medicines, or any other things. This has making the worth of this wood is higher and higher in every year.
Actually, the gaharu or the eagle wood is produced from any infected trees which are growth at the tropic area. The most famous of the gaharu or eagle wood producer areas are India, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. These countries have been producing many gaharu or eagle woods in every year. Surely, due its advantages, the countries which have been producing this wood will get very much income from its sales.
Furthermore, by the development of technology and medical research now, many scientists have founded that the eagle wood has many more advantages for us. They have been providing that gaharu or eagle wood is able to vanquishing some most dangerous diseases like as cancer, kidney, lungs tumor, and colon tumor. Considering of its advantages, this will not surprising us if this wood is called with a multi purpose wood.

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Gaharu’s Oil

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:20:51 +0000

Gaharu’s oil is any oil that produced from gaharu trees (Aquilaris Malascences). This oil is usually used for making perfume or any other fragrances. We have been know that gaharu is only able to grow in any tropical area, but, unfortunately, people at these area are mostly not knowing yet about how worth the gaharu’s oil is. This surely is a bad condition for them because considering of the gaharu’s advantages for us people should have to cultivate this plant more and many more.
The ignorance of people at the Southern Asia of the gaharu advantages is maybe caused by the less of information about it at there. Whereas, when they have known about how to cultivate the gaharu tree is, they will able to get many benefits from there. As for information, gaharu worth is able to reach more than $500 for each kilogram. Surely, this is a kind of valuable omzet for any people who have known that it will make them be a rich man in a short time.
Nowadays, the information about how to cultivating gaharu is more encouraged. Both Europeans and Americans have giving information about it much in every information media. They have hoped that by this way, the production of gaharu’s oil can be increased so the usage and the worth of this wood can be more available for every people in the world.

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Why We Must Save the Eagle Wood Existence?

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:33:05 +0000

Along with the people knowledge, the gaharu or it also known as the eagle wood has been being a part of it and has been used for many purposes for long time ago. Chinese, Asians, Europeans, and still many other people from various countries in the world have known that the eagle wood is a wood which has many advantages for our healthy. As example, in the past, people have used to use this wood as analgesic, as mosquito repellent, and as a medicine of many diseases.
Due its advantages, it will not surprising if this wood has expensive enough of its worth and many people have tried to felling and cut the eagle wood trees for year to year. They know that by sell the eagle wood, they will be able to get a lot of money. This wood is easy enough for sold because there were many people who have scrambled to buy this wood. Thus, this was making the eagle wood trees populations get lower and lower on its quantity.
Surely, the lower of the eagle wood populations in every year has to be our concerns. It means, when the eagle wood populations have been vanished on the entire of the world, we will get loss of a medicine source, and this case possibly to make the higher of disease syndrome at the future.

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Eaglewood:Indonesia National Standard (SNI 01-5009.1-1999)

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:53:32 +0000

Indonesia National Standard
SNI 01-5009.1-1999
EAGLEWOOD
1. Scope
These standards include definitions, symbols and abbreviations, terms, specifications, classifications, how to harvest, quality requirements, sampling, test methods, passing test requirements, labeling requirements, the testing guidelines of eaglewood produced in Indonesia.
2. Definition
Eaglewood is a kind of timber with various unique shapes and colors, and contains levels of mastic, derived from trees or parts of Eaglewood-producing trees that grow naturally and have died, as a result of the infection process that occurs either naturally or artificially in the tree, and generally it occurs in Aguilaria tree sp. (Local name: Karas, Alim, Garu and others).
3. Symbol and Abbreviations

3.1.  U   = Main quality              3.12. t    = Thickness

3.2.  I   = First quality             3.13. TGA  = Medium A

3.3.  II  = Second quality            3.14. TAB  = Medium AB

3.4.  III = Third quality             3.15. TGC  = Medium C

3.5.  IV  = Fourth quality            3.16. TK 1 = Medium Kedangan

3.6.  V   = Fifth quality             3.17. SB 1 = Sabah 1

3.7.  VI  = Sixth quality             3.18. M 1  = Kemedangan 1

3.8.  VII = Seventh quality           3.19. M 2  = Kemedangan 2

3.9.  -   = Not required              3.20. M 3  = Kemedangan 3

3.10. p   = Length                    3.21. kg   = kilogram

3.11. l   = Width                     3.22. gr   = gram

4. Glossary

4.1. Eaglewood ash is an Eaglewood powder produced from the milling process or the destruction of rubbing and cleaning remains of the Eaglewood.

4.2. Eaglewood Resin is a kind of solid and soft resin, which comes from trees or parts of Eaglewood-producing trees, with a strong scent, and is characterized by its brownish black.
4.3. Eaglewood cambium is wood from trees or parts of Eaglewood-producing trees, that contains mastic with a rather strong scent, which is characterized by its black or in turn blackish brown.
4.4. Kemedangan is wood from trees or parts of eaglewood-producing trees, which contain mastic with the weak scent, which is characterized by its grayish white to brown, coarse grained, and its soft wood.
5. Specifications
Eaglewood is grouped into 3 (three) sorts, they are Eaglewood Cambium , Kemedangan, and Eaglewood Ash

6. Classification
6.1. Eaglewood Cambium is divided into quality mark, they are:

The main quality, with a mark of quality U, equal to super quality
The first quality, with a mark of quality I, equal to AB quality
Second quality, with a mark of quality II, equal to super Sabah

6.2. Kemedangan is grouped into 7 (seven) quality classes, they are;

First Quality, with a mark of quality I, equal to TGA or TK I.

Second quality, with a mark of quality II, equal to the quality of SB I.
Third quality, with a mark of quality III, equal to the quality of TAB.
Fourth quality, with a mark of quality IV, equl to the quality of TGC.
Fifh quality, with a mark of quality V, equal to the quality of M 1.
Sixth quality, with a mark of quality VI, equal to the quality of M 2.
Seventh quality, with a mark of quality VII, equal to the quality of M 3.

6.3. Eaglewood Ash is grouped into 3 (three) quality classes, they are:

Main quality, with a mark of quality U.
First quality, with a mark of quality I.
Second quality, with a mark of quality II.

7. How to Harvest

7.1. Eaglewood Cambium and kemedangan are obtained by felling trees that produce the eaglewood that has died, as a result of the mastic accumulation caused by infection in the tree.

7.2. Trees that have been harvested and cleaned and cut into pieces or split apart, then the wood parts that contain an accumulation of mastic are selected, and later they are called as eaglewood.

7.3. Pieces of eaglewood are sorted according to the content mastic, color and shape.

7.4. In order that the color of the pieces of eaglewood can be more visible, the eaglewood pieces are cleaned by rubbing.

7.5. The eaglewood splinters of the remaining of cutting and cleansing or rubbing, are re-collected to be made as raw materials of the eaglewood making..

8. Quality requirements

8.1. General Requirements

Both Eaglewood Cambium and Kemedangan are not allowed to have flaws of being decayed and rottened.
8.2. Specific Requirements
Specific requirements of eaglewood quality can be seen in a row in Table 1, 2 and 3.

Table 1. Quality Requirements of lEaglewood Cambium

No.	Characteristics	Quality
No.	Characteristics	U	I	II
1	Shape	-	-	-
2	Size	4-15 cm2-3 cm ≥ 0,5 cm	4-15 cm2-3 cm ≥ 0,5 cm	15 cm- -
3	Color	Dark Black	Brownish black	Brownish black
4	Mastic Content	High	Enough	Medium
5	Fiber	Solid	Solid	Solid
6	Weight	Heavy	Rather heavy	Medium
7	Scent (burnt)	Strong	Strong	Rather Strong

Table 2. Quality Requirements of Kemedangan

No	Characteristics	Quality
No	Characteristics	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
1	Color	Blackish Brown	Black Striped Brown	Slight white striped brown	Slight white striped brownish	Wide white striped brownish	Grayish white with slight black	Grayish white
2	Mastic Content	High	Enough	Medium	Medium	Medium	Less	Less
3	Fiber	Rather solid	Rather solid	Rather solid	Less Solid	Less Solid	Rarely	Rarely
4	Weight	Rather heavy	Rather heavy	Rather heavy	Rather heavy	Light	Light	Light
5	Scent (Burnt)	Rather Strong	Rather Strong	Rather Strong	Rather Strong	Less Strong	Less Strong	Less Strong

Table 3. Quality Requirements of Eaglewood Ash

No	Characteristics	Quality
No	Characteristics	U	I	II
1	Color	Black	Blackish Brown	Brownish/Yellowish White
2	Mastic Content	High	Medium	Less
3	Scent (Burnt)	Strong	Medium	Less

9. Sampling
Sampling for eaglewood or eaglewood ash for the purpose of inspection is conducted randomly, with the number of test samples as listed in Table 4.
Table 4. Eagle Number of Test Sample

Population Number

Number of Test Sample

1.2.

< 100 kg100 – 1000 kg

> 1000 kg

15 gr100 gr

200 gr

10. Test Methods

10.1. Principle: Tests are conducted visually with the priority color impression and the scent impression (smell) when it is burnt.

10.2. The equipment used includes tape measure, knives, fire, magnifying glass (loupe) of the magnifying of ≥ 10 (ten) times, and scales.
10.3. Testing requirements
10.3.1. Eaglewood to be tested should be grouped according to the same sorts. Especially for eaglewood ashes are grouped according to the same color.
10.3.2. The testing is carried out in a bright place (with adequate lighting), so that they can observe all the abnormalities found in eaglewood or eaglewood ash.
10.4. Testing Implementation
10.4.1. Determination of wood species
Determination of eaglewood species can be carried out by examining the general characteristics of eaglewood.
10.4.2. Determination of the size
Determination of the length, width and thickness of eaglewood is only valid for the type of cambium eaglewood.
10.4.3. Weight determination
Weight determination is done by weighing, using the unit of kilograms (kg).
10.4.4. Determination of the quality

Determination of eaglewood quality is by the assessment of the size, color, shape, state of fiber, the weight of wood, and the scent of tested eagle wood. While for the eaglewood ashes, it is done by assessing the color and scent.
a. Assessment of the size of eaglewood is by measuring the length, width and thickness, in accordance with quality requirements in Table 2.

b. Assessment of the color wood and eaglewood ash is by assessing the maturity of color, older color of the wood, indicating that resin content is higher.

c. Assessment of the content of the mastic and the scent is by cutting a small portion of the eaglewood or by taking a pinch of eaglewood ashes, then burnings it. The contents of high mastic can be seen from the result of combustion, that is the eaglewood or its ash are melting and pulling out a strong and fragrant scent.

d. Assessment of eaglewood fiber is by assessing the tightness and the density of wood fiber. Tight, dense, smooth and soft wood fibers have higher quality than rare or rude fibers.

10.4.5. Determination of the finishing quality

The determination of the finishing quality is based on the lowest quality according to one of quality requirements based on the characteristics of eaglewood.

11. Passing Test Requirements

eaglewood or eaglewood ash that has been tested or inspected, is declared to have passed the test if it meets the quality requirements set.
12. Labeling requirements
On the packaging of the eaglewood or eaglewood ash that has completed testing should printed:
- Number of packaging
- Weight of packaging
- Sorting
- Quality
- Number SNI
- Corporate Identification Signs (TPP)

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business opportunities from coconut charcoal liquid smoke

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:31:45 +0000

when formalin banned as a food preservative because it is bad for health, it is necessary to find a breakthrough to get a replacement. The choice is liquid smoke. Liquid smoke obtained from burning coconut shell. These commodities are able to preserve fish, tofu, noodles, meatballs, chicken pieces and other food because it contains compounds acetate, butyrate and valerat well as anti-bacterial. This product is also useful as raw materials of traditional medicine, fertilizers, pesticides. In Indonesia, the production of liquid smoke as a business unit of coconut charcoal burning efforts. One thing that needs to be developed, to support the preservative-free foods that endanger humans.

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our forests, the future of the world

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:26:00 +0000

The meeting of the parties or the COP 15 in Copenhagen, denmark, discussing the future of climate change. As a country with the second largest forest after Brazil, Indonesia should be able to benefit from this meeting.
International attention on Indonesia’s forests is very good. From 126.8 million hectares of forest, 23.3 million hectares are protected forests, 21.6 million ha of production forests is limited, and 14 million ha are production forest conversion.
During the last one five years, the government seeks to boost the development of the forest. Private investors and forest communities are encouraged to grow timber, such as: teak, sengon, mahogany, aloes. attractive mahogany wood processing industry.
Plantation development is absolutely a requirement, because a lot of negative campaign of pressure against Indonesia forestry products. Many of Indonesia products, ranging from plywood, pulp, paper, still face the international market pressures.
These pressures could destroy the forest industry in the country. Wood panel association Data Indonesia (APKINDO), the national plywood industry in 2009 lived 20 percent. The issue of illegal logging, illegal timber, and the high economic costs, making Indonesia the product competitiveness in the global market destroyed.

MARKET CHALLENGES
Although Indonesia forestry industry began using natural raw materials and plant forests in a balanced way, many other countries provide tariff barriers for products not accused of using indonesia.Indonesia cheaper raw materials because the use of timber land clearing results in the process of land preparation. Tougher enforcement along with the Lacey Act by act provides USA.Lacey severe sanctions against prakktek destruction. They are proven to be violating the law arrested and processed in the USA.

for that, the government was expected to draw on economic policy with the forest policy.lobying with other countries needs to be done.
until now, the new prince charles of English who take an active role to build Indonesia forests through forest restoration projects in jambi expectations. Prince charles drafting a formula to calculate the value of natural forests in jambi for later sold in the form of prince charles bond.company or emissions-producing countries in category of Annex I, like Japan and the USA are expected to buy securities as they contribute in reducing emissions production. Proceeds from sale of securities is then used to restore natural forests with natural vegetation so that the return becomes sustainable.
Prince charles promote efforts to support the restoration of the International world of natural forests in Jambi and South Sumatra are clear evidence of international alignments. they realized, the future of the world now in Indonesia.

refence : kompas

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Immediately mataram University of Technology patented wooden pig Eaglewood ( Gaharu )

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:01:43 +0000

University of Mataram (Unram) Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), immediately patented manufacturing technology Eaglewood Lombok pig findings Unram one of the researchers, the late Dr. Parman, former Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture.

Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture Unram Ir. Sudirman, P. Hd, in Mataram, Monday, said the pig production technology Lombok Eaglewood late Dr. findings. Parman concern a number of countries in the world including Malaysia and Germany. The two countries are very interested in technology Eaglewood pig Unram research findings.

“For this reason, in the near future will soon take care Unram patents Eaglewood pig technology, especially the existence of various cultures and expert findings that are claimed by Indonesia Malaysia these days,” he said.

He explained, pig Eaglewood is wood from trees or parts of gaharu-producing trees, contain mastic with a rather strong smell, which is marked by the color black or blackish brown turns.
According to him, before registered for a patent, will be performed first in-depth research about the characteristics and advantages of this technology Lombok Eaglewood/gaharu.

Researchers from several countries to learn Eaglewood Unram admit that the best of Eaglewood/gaharu Lombok in other areas in Indonesia and in other countries.

Some countries like Malaysia and Germany have not included a number of regions in Indonesia, has declared himself interested in studying technology in Lombok Eaglewood pig.

Even the German research institute has worked with Unram to focus on research and development so that Eaglewood/gaharu Lombok has characteristics that are not claimed by any local or other countries.

Sudirman explained, woven cooperation with Malaysia in the development Eaglewood merely ordinary. If the Malaysian side to deviate from the contents of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) or memorandum of understanding has been agreed, then it will revoke and stop cooperation with Malaysia.

“We’re not giving anything to the Malaysia cooperation is only normal. There’s nothing to worry about,” he said.

Besides Germany, Malaysia and some other countries, added Sudirman, several regions in Indonesia are also interested in the development and quality of Eaglewood Lombok, one of which is the district government of Sorong Irian Jaya.

“Eaglewood/gaharu has great potential and is very easy-to-market. The price of a kilogram of the crop began to USD 5 million Eaglewood-Rp30 million, depending on its quality. It’s just a long harvest period of nine years,” he said.

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Technology Development For Super Eaglewood (gaharu )

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:41:50 +0000

Department of Forestry to find technology that could produce high-quality gaharu wood.

Research and Development Agency of Forestry Department of Forestry Eaglewood/gaharu research since 1984 with the formation of microbial species of aloes. This body has produced more than 20 isolates of gaharu-producing microbes.

This high-quality aloe has a high selling price. The quality gaharu/eaglewood produced from the tree induced for 2 years. Tree can produce 4 kg of gaharu pig main quality and medium quality 8 pounds. Of the harvest is estimated the sale price of a 7-year-old trees that have been induced to reach USD 20 million.

Organizational International Tropical Timber (ITTO) to give special attention and cooperation to help accelerate the development of aloes. The form in cultivation and production technology.

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