Indonesia Capacity Building

NOAA Works with Indonesian Team to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles

Despite gloomy predictions for the future of leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean, an ongoing, long-standing collaboration between a NOAA Fisheries expert and local scientists in Papua, Indonesia, might be the path forward to help researchers understand how to prevent a critical nesting population from going extinct. Read More...

Strengthening Fisheries Science and Management in the Heart of the Coral Triangle 

A team of 4-5 scientists and education specialists from the NMFS Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (Dr. Rusty Brainard and Megan Moews), Pacific Islands Regional Office (Dr. Robert Schroeder and Jarad Makaiau), and NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (Dr. Janna Shackeroff and Dr. Paulo Maurin) Read More...

Monitoring Seafood Safety and Coastal Ecosystem Health:

Imagine empowering local communities to serve as ecohealth watchers! This is the foundation of a sustainable training program that promotes coastal ecosystem health and seafood safety in developing nations and has been implemented in the Philippines, Guatemala and Indonesia. Read More...