Guide
EUDR and Indonesian goods.
The EU Deforestation Regulation covers coffee, cocoa, palm oil, rubber, soya, cattle and wood, along with the products made from them, furniture included. From 30 December 2026 a large operator cannot place any of them on the EU market without a due diligence statement tracing the lot back to the plots of land it came from.
What it covers.
- Commodities
- Cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya and wood. Seven of them, all named in the regulation.1
- Derived products
- Goods made from those commodities are in scope as well. For Indonesian trade that reaches furniture and wooden décor, well past sawn timber.1
- The test
- Deforestation-free and produced legally in the country of origin. Both halves have to hold, so legality on its own will not carry a consignment.1
When it starts.
The date has moved twice already. These are the ones in force when this page was last checked, and the source below carries that date.
Where Indonesia sits.
- Risk class
- Standard, under the country benchmarking set by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/10933
- What that rules out
- The simplified due diligence route. It is open only where every input is low-risk, so an Indonesian lot needs the full exercise.3
- What the importer still does
- Collects the information, assesses the risk, mitigates anything that is not negligible, then files the statement.1
What it means, category by category.
Coffee and cocoa
In scope
Both are named commodities. The plot coordinates have to come from the farm itself, and Indonesian coffee is grown by smallholders in their thousands. Collecting them is where the work sits.
Furniture, wood and rattan
In scope
Wood is a named commodity and furniture is a derived product. Rattan is a palm rather than a timber, so every article has to be read against its own customs classification.
Seafood
Not in scope
No fishery product appears in the regulation. Seafood into the EU falls under a separate regime built around approved establishments and health certification.
Essential oils and personal care
Read the formula
Patchouli, clove and nutmeg oils sit outside it. A formulation carrying a palm-derived ingredient does not, and the formula decides that whatever category the product sells in.
SVLK is not the same answer.
Every wood product leaving Indonesia already carries a V-Legal document under SVLK, the national timber legality system. That has held for every export destination since the system came into force.4 It answers whether the timber was legally harvested and traded.
EUDR asks that question and a second one: was the land cleared of forest. To settle the second it wants plot coordinates. A V-Legal document is not a due diligence statement and cannot be turned into one, so a supplier who answers an EUDR question by sending their SVLK certificate has not answered it.
Questions buyers ask.
Does EUDR apply to my order if I am not in the EU?
No. It binds operators placing goods on the European Union market, so a buyer in the Gulf, in Japan or in the United States falls outside it. The traceability work it forces is worth having anyway, since it is the same work that answers where a lot came from.
Who files the due diligence statement?
The operator placing the goods on the EU market. In a normal import that is the buyer rather than the Indonesian producer or us. What comes from this side is the underlying evidence: the plots, the chain of custody, and the documents behind them.
What do you do about it on an order?
We treat plot-level traceability as part of qualifying a producer, at the same stage as everything else we check. If a producer cannot show where the crop was grown, you want to hear that before a deposit moves.
Is a smallholder crop like coffee workable under this?
It is the harder case, honestly. A Sumatran lot can pass through a collector and a cooperative before it reaches a mill, and every hop is somewhere the link back to the plot can be lost. Chains built for it from the start hold up. Chains that have it bolted on afterwards usually do not.
Sourcing one of these before December?
Tell us the product and the destination. We come back with producer options and what each of them can evidence.
Sources
- 1Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). European Commission. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 2Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, consolidated text. EUR-Lex. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 3EUDR country benchmarking under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1093. European Commission. Checked 3 August 2026.
- 4SVLK, Indonesia's timber legality assurance system. FLEGT licence information service. Checked 3 August 2026.