Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia

Marine Protected Areas in INDONESIA
– Source: Asean Regional Centre for Biodiveristy Conservation, 2002.
(URL: www.arcbc.org/arcbcweb/publications/mpa.htm)

Background facts

Coastline : 80,791 km (Moosa 1995) to 204,000 km (Tomascik et al. 1997)
Population : 213,524,012 (World Gazetteer, no date)
Population density : 109.3/km2; coastal (w/in 60 km of coast) pop. density 93/ km2 (Bryant et al. 1998)
Land area : 1,919,445 km2 (IUCN/WCMC 1992)
Shelf to 200m depth : 2,776,900 km2 (World Resources Institute 1994)
EEZ : 5.8M km2 (Priyono and Sumiono 1997)
Est. Coral Reef Area : 42,000 km2 (Bryant et al. 1998) to 85,700 km2 (Tomascik et al. 1997)
Est. Mangrove Area : 38,000 km2 (Spalding et al. 1997)
MPA Coverage : 8 (2,538 km2, SME-GOI 1992); 30 (26,000 km2, Bleakley and Wells 1995); 26 (30,405 km2, Bryant et al. 1998); 34 (46,190 km2, Moosa et al. 1996, cited in Nontji 2000)

 

Marine Protected Areas in Central Indonesia

 

Marine Protected Areas in Eastern Indonesia

 

Marine Protected Areas in Western Indonesia

 

List of marine protected areas (table)

 

Reefs at Risk

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