Depi Susilawati is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). Before joining RegNet, Depi was a PhD Scholar at Fenner School of Environment and Society, the Australian National University. Under the supervision of Professor Peter Kanowski, her PhD project looks at the architecture, implementation and actors’ compliance with sustainability certification and timber legality verification in Indonesian wood value chains. Depi’s PhD research has been published in the Forest Policy and Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, and International Forestry Review. During her PhD, Depi has teaching experience at the ANU as a tutor for the Managing Forested Landscape course and demonstrator for the Introduction to Environmental and Social Research course.

Prior to her PhD, Depi has been working on research and training projects for the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, which collaborated with key international organisations, including MFP (UK-AID), SNV, RECOFTC, GIZ, AHT, and CIFOR-ICRAF. Her previous research is related to sustainable forest management, forest certification, timber legality, community forest, market analysis and development.

Depi holds a Bachelor degree in Forestry from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Her Bachelor research looked at the dynamic and succession of local institutions involved in community forest development in Indonesia. Afterwards, she obtained her Master degree in Environmental Science from Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands. In her Master thesis, she evaluated the implementation of the Indonesian timber legality verification system in the verified community forests in Java island, which in turn provided a platform for her current PhD research.

Research interests:

• Forest policy and governance

• Transnational experimentalist regime

• Environment policy

• Natural resource management

• Community development

Publications:

• Susilawati, D., and Kanowski, P.J. 2021. Sustainability certification and legality verification in Indonesian natural forest-based wood products value chains. International Forestry Review 23 (3): 365-391. https://doi.org/10.1505/146554821833992839.

• Susilawati, D., Kanowski, P. 2020. Cleaner production in the Indonesian pulp and paper sector: Improving sustainability and legality compliance in the value chain. Journal of Cleaner Production 248: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119259.

• Susilawati, D., Kanowski, P., Setyowati, A. B., Resosudarmo, I. A. P. and Race, D. 2019. Compliance of smallholder timber value chains in East Java with Indonesia’s timber legality verification system, Forest Policy and Economics, 102: 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.02.005.

• Susilawati, D. 2013. ‘The Indonesian Timber Legality Assurance System (Indo-TLAS) in the Community Forest: An Evaluation of Mandatory Timber Verification and Local Practice’, Master Thesis, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Available at: http://edepot.wur.nl/274906