Monthly Archives: March 2014

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and Solomon Islands, which are located in South-east Asia, formed the coral-triangle. Those countries are home of nearly 600 different species of reef-building corals and also more than 2000 species of reef fish. They are considered as a place with the most diverse marine habitats globally (WWF, 2014). Indonesia, being an archipelagic country, consists of 17,508 islands scattered around the equator. It is a maritime continent with 2.7 million km2 of territorial […]

Climate change is an imminent danger that everyone is facing. One of the main causes is the green house gas (GHG) emission. According to PEACE (2007), in 2005, Indonesia is in the top 3 of world’s GHG emission excluding EU (by including EU, Indonesia is 4th). In 2008, Sri Mulyani, Indonesia’s financial minister, commissioned Green Paper written with the help of AusAID and Australian Treasury aiming to reduce emissions by 26% with business as usual up to 41% if there […]