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Indonesia Subprogram 5

Sustainable use and management of fisheries and forestry resources

Fisheries resources

  • Use of alternative, innovative assessment and management frameworks which address the problem of resource data limitations and pilot these in selected shared and common-interest fisheries
  • Establishment of effective co-management arrangements between fishers and the cage aquaculture industry in inland reservoirs and open water bodies
  • Better management of illegal unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in seas managed by Indonesia alone, with attention to improving existing reporting and regulation shortcomings; and analysis of institutional and regulatory frameworks and linkages between different levels of government
  • Regional cooperation in the monitoring of sharks and rays landed from the Indian Ocean and shark fin export-import data to obtain a better understanding of regional trade flows
  • Supply chain economic assessment and policy analysis on optimal use of fisheries industrial processing facilities
  • Quality and safety assessment and improvement of fishery products in relation to catching, handling, processing and marketing in order to reduce losses and improve product competitiveness

Forestry resources

  • Review of policy options and economic assessment of smallholder forestry options to address climate change mitigation
  • Improvement in post-decentralisation forest governance and administration through action research at provincial and district levels
  • Application of improved silvicultural strategies and governance arrangements to appropriately sited plantation species
  • Capture of more value from forestry plantation species through improved processing technologies and development of new products matched to appropriate markets
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