Since the time when Dutch settlers established the island’s first teak plantations, Indonesia has been home to the world’s finest teak. Indonesia’s chalky soil conditions and equatorial climate are unlike anywhere else in the world. The Blora-Cepu region of Central Java provides optimal growing conditions for teak, where sustainable plantations are monitored by the government controlled forest management operation Perum Peruhtani. Several university studies prove that Central Java plantation teak is stronger and denser than teak grown in other regions of the world.