Indonesian Fisheries News

A dugong.

Sumatran dugong hunter struggles to adapt to changing times

Dody Hidayat, Yogi Eka Sahputra 3 Jan 2024

Unsustainable fishing to be banned in Irrawaddy dolphin’s Bornean sanctuary

Basten Gokkon 22 Dec 2022

Indonesian authorities nip island auction in marine reserve in the bud

Basten Gokkon, Mahmud Ichi 7 Dec 2022

As Indonesia protects more marine areas, top priority is management: experts

Basten Gokkon 14 Oct 2022

Mangroves and wildlife in Bornean bay at risk from Indonesia’s new capital

Basten Gokkon, Richaldo Hariandja 7 Oct 2022

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2022

The main road built by PT Gema Kreasi Perdana

Sulawesi islanders grieve land lost to nickel mine

Eko Rusdianto 6 Oct 2022

Indonesian lobster larvae bound for Singapore reveal role of smuggling network

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 29 Sep 2022

Fish Loading and unloading activities.

Indonesia’s sustainable fisheries push sails into storm in Java Sea

Asad Asnawi 27 Sep 2022

A crew of cantrang fishermen unload their cargo.

Java fishers struggle with seine net ban amid rising costs, falling profits

Asad Asnawi 26 Sep 2022

Faced with grouper, snapper decline, Indonesia adopts harvest strategy

Wahyu Chandra 23 Sep 2022

A millennial advocate pushes for a youth-led digital future for Indonesian fisheries

Gafur Abdullah 22 Sep 2022

Indonesia to update conservation efforts for aquarium favorite cardinalfish

Basten Gokkon 21 Sep 2022

Indonesia urged to update fisher training program to international standards

Basten Gokkon 13 Sep 2022

A turtle hatchling

In Indonesia’s West Sumbawa, tide turns on taste for turtle eggs

Fathul Rakhman 7 Sep 2022

Migrant fishers haul a shark aboard DOF’s Long Xing 621 vessel in the mid-Atlantic in September 2021. Image by Tommy Trenchard for Greenpeace.

Indonesia pursues agreements to protect its fishers on foreign vessels

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2022

Residents paddle a boat down a flooded street in Bojongasih village.

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Donny Iqbal 31 Aug 2022

Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2022

Indonesia announces plan to protect 10% of its seas by 2030, and 30% by 2045

Basten Gokkon 26 Aug 2022

A healthy coral reef in Tahiti.

Scientists develop AI that can listen to the pulse of a reef being restored

Cassie Freund 25 Aug 2022

Indonesia backtracks on plan criticized for ‘privatizing’ fisheries resources

Basten Gokkon 11 Aug 2022

Overlooked and at risk, seagrass is habitat of choice for many small-scale fishers

Basten Gokkon 10 Aug 2022

Rehabilitation of coral reefs in commemoration of Coral Triangle Day 2022 in Oesina Beach.

‘Spiderwebs’ to the rescue for Indonesia’s coral reefs

Agustinus Wijayanto, Warief Djajanto Basorie 7 Aug 2022

Indonesia’s mangrove restoration bid holds huge promise, but obstacles abound

Warief Djajanto Basorie 26 Jul 2022

Ban on use of destructive net fails to make an impact in Indonesia, experts say

Basten Gokkon, Yogi Eka Sahputra 20 Jul 2022

Bajo women canoeing from the village to a tourist beach.

Amid rising pressure, Indonesia’s sea-based communities adapt to change

Warief Djajanto Basorie and Mahmud Ichi 18 Jul 2022

Study: Climate impacts to disproportionately hurt tropical fishers, farmers

Basten Gokkon 15 Jul 2022

In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish

Basten Gokkon, L. Darmawan 12 Jul 2022

A fish market in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

Nick Rodway 6 Jul 2022

Indonesia to issue quota-based fisheries policy in July, sparking concerns

Basten Gokkon 1 Jul 2022

Fishers in Siompu, Southeast Sulawesi with their daily catch. September 2019. Photo credit: Rare.

WTO ban on ‘harmful’ subsidies won’t impact small-scale fishers, Indonesia says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2022

Study: Marine governance in Indonesia pursues exploitation over sustainability

Basten Gokkon 23 Jun 2022

Indonesia issues long-delayed rules to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 14 Jun 2022

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