Seagrass Ecosystem Coastal Ecosystems
Ampat Island Waters area in Papua and surrounding sea of 60 000 ha, 4 Gili Ayer Islands, Gili Meno, and Gili Trawangan in NTB with an area of 2954
hectares, 5 Kapoposan Islands and surrounding sea of 50 000 hectares, 6 along Padaido Islands surrounding waters covering 183 000 ha, 7 Long Island in Irian
Jaya, covering 271 630 hectares, and 8 Pieh Island in West Sumatra and surrounding waters covering 39 900 hectares.
Beforehand, cooperation between the Marine and Fisheries Department and the Forestry Department in the conservation sector has been initiated since 2003
by mutual agreement between the Director General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, Ministry of Forestry to the Director General of the Marine,
Coastal and Small Islands, Ministry regarding the implementation of activities in the 6 six national parks, which include strengthening of national parks zoning
system activities, strengthening of research and development, biological natural resources, strengthening of socio-economic communities surrounding national
parks, development of marine tourism, human resource development, development of information and promotion and monitoring capacity of the area.
In addition, the development cooperation likewise carried out in the program of rehabilitation and management of coral reefs COREMAP II.
Act No. 312004 about the fishery; it is the governments duty to use the ecosystem approach obviously through a Marine Conservation Area MCA as a
fisheries management tool. This can be seen at Article 7 paragraph 1 point q concerning asylum fisheries and Article 13 paragraph 1 of the conservation of
fishery resources. The government is completing a Government Regulation which governs the conservation of fishery resources in Indonesia currently. Department
of Marine has been to anticipate the fisheries policy to MCA with the formation of the Directorate of Conservation and Marine National Park, under the Directorate
General KP3K. Indeed, General Directorate of Fisheries added one of the structure, namely Loka Pemacu Stok that is expected works to restore the stock of
fisheries resources.