A New Zealand NGO, the Indonesia Human Rights Committee says the New Zealand Government's response to the importation of illegal tropical timber is weak and muted.
A new report details the extent of illegal logging practices and identifies Indonesia as the source of much of this wood.
The New Zealand government has said it cannot regulate without the agreement of other nations.
It is instead proposing consultation and awareness raising.
But Maire Leadbetter of the Indonesian Human Rights Committee says tropical deforestation is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions and New Zealand must play its part in ending this crime against the planet.
She says last summer the NGO conducted a retail survey and found that Auckland was awash with outdoor furniture and decking made from kwila sourced from Indonesian controlled West Papua.
Ms Leadbetter says kwila has already been stripped out of the rest of Indonesia and other South East Asian nations and there is a strong international drive for it to be listed as an endangered species.