- CEO
- Abdul Rahman Khan bin Hakim Khan
- Full Time Employees
- 103
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Agricultural commodities/Milling
- Address
- Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
- IPO Date
- Jun 1, 2018
- Business
- Jawala Inc. is an investment holding and sustainable forestry management company primarily engaged in timber extraction, round log trading, and industrial tree plantation development in Malaysia. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Labuan, Malaysia, with primary forestry assets situated in Sabah, the company manages sustainable timber operations under a long-term Sustainable Forest Management Licence Agreement covering approximately 11,043 hectares within Forest Management Unit 14 in the Sapulut Forest Reserve. Jawala Inc. operates across three core business divisions: Timber Logging and Trading, Industrial Tree Plantation, and Corporate and Others. The company's comprehensive product and service portfolio includes: natural round logs harvested through licensed salvage operations, supplying merchantable tropical hardwood species including Meranti, Keruing, Seraya, Kapur, Selangan Batu, and mixed commercial hardwoods; plantation timber, focusing on the cultivation, silviculture, harvesting, and commercial distribution of fast-growing industrial tree species such as Laran (Neolamarckia cadamba), Albizia falcataria (Batai), and Eucalyptus pellita; nursery and seedling development services, delivering high-grade botanical propagation, clonal seedling supply, and site-matching silvicultural treatments; and forest concession stewardship services, comprising reduced-impact logging management, environmental impact compliance, biodiversity conservation planning, and systematic reforestation programs. The company distributes its timber output primarily to sawmills, plywood and veneer manufacturing plants, building material fabricators, and regional timber export merchants across Malaysia and wider Asian markets. In recent operational developments, Jawala Inc. has accelerated its strategic transition from salvage logging toward sustainable, rotational harvest cycles of planted industrial timber, expanding its central nursery infrastructure to increase propagation rates of high-yield Laran and Batai seedlings. Concurrently, the company has undertaken technical and commercial feasibility assessments for nature-based carbon sequestration and carbon credit generation programs within its Sabah concession, while exploring strategic partnerships and downstream product diversification opportunities in wood biomass and certified value-added timber processing to strengthen supply chain integration and mitigate commodity market volatility.