Preface

Abstract

The 13th symposium of Indonesian Wood Research Society (IWoRS 2021) conference was held virtually because the pandemic situation in Indonesia had not improved until the day of the conference approached. This conference was held virtually instead of being postponed so that the conference which has been regularly scheduled every year will continue to run while at the same time encouraging the researchers, scientists, government, communities, and industry professionals and students that even though the situation is difficult, we can still work. The conference was held at September, 2nd 2021 by University of Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.The conference start at 08.00 WITA (GMT +8) with a plenary session which is divided into 2 sessions and there are 3 keynote speakers for each session. The keynote speakers comprise of experts from 6 different countries, they are Dr. Agus Justinanto (Director General of Sustainable Forest Management, Indonesia), assc. Prof. Dr. David Auty (Northern Arizona University), Prof. Dr. Ryo Funada (President of the Japan Wood Research Society), Prof. Jegatheswaran Ratnasinga (University Putra Malaysia), Prof. Zhongwei Guan, Ph.D. (Executive Director of Advance Materials Research Center), Dr. Wen Shao Chang (The University of Sheffield). The conference then continued with a parallel session at 13:00 WITA (GMT +8). Parallel sessions consist of 6 classes with 3 sessions where each session contains 4-6 speakers. Each presenter has present their paper for 15 minutes which is then followed by a discussion session.List of Proceeding Organizing Committee, Symposium Committee are available in this pdf.