Blues in Blue Economy

Bustar Maitar
CEO EcoNusa Foundation
@pacebustar

Belitung, 7 September 2022

 About EcoNusa
❖ EcoNusa Foundation is a nonprofit organization focusing its program and activities on
improvement of various local initiatives to national and international level in terms of
natural resources sustainable management in Tanah Papua and Maluku.

❖ EcoNusa Foundation plays its imperative roles as the communication hub, connecting
stakeholders in the eastern Indonesia (Tanah Papua and Maluku) to promote
environmental protection and natural resources sustainable management on the basis of
equality through concrete action with the local community.

❖ EcoNusa Foundation also promotes sovereignty values of natural resources management

and conservation to decision makers at regional and central levels.
Eastern Indonesia

• Home of Indigenous Peoples with 250++ different

languages

• Home of 39 Million ha forests (45% of Indonesia

remaining rainforests and 41% of Indonesia remaining
mangrove)

• Heart of Coral Triangle and home of 45% Indonesia fish

stock
 Indonesia’s
ocean-related
goods and
services amount
to about US$2.5
trillion annually.
 EcoNusa's Support for Indonesia's Blue Economy
❖ Supporting the implementation of the Pilot Province on low carbon development initiative in Papua, West
Papua and Maluku. It also includes supporting the masterplan for 25-year Development Plans in Tanah
Papua.

❖ Providing community capacity building in the development of marine and coastal tourism, including the
government's strategy in developing marine tourism.

❖ Pushing for a Regional Regulation, together with the Provincial Government of West Papua, on the
Mangrove Essential Ecosystem Area (KEE) which covers 430,000 ha of Mangroves in West Papua.

❖ Dynamizing the learning of small island and coastal communities in Eastern Indonesia through Jaring
Nusa, and marine and fisheries policy advocacy through KORAL including encouraging the protection of
the rights of indigenous peoples in the coast and the sea.

❖ Collaborating with KWARNAS PRAMUKA to support efforts to restore and protect mangroves in Indonesia
and with the “Sea Guard” (Penjaga Laut), a community-based volunteer organization, to raise awareness
among young people about marine, coastal and small island issues in Indonesia.

❖ Developing evidence-based policies, in collaboration with the Dean's Forum of the Indonesian Fisheries
Faculty.

❖ Building sustainable business model through PT. KOBUMI. 7 Cooperatives of local and indigenous
communities build a holding company to trade and produce value-added local commodities from Eastern
Indonesia.
Egek, the Moi tribe’s maritime tradition. Moi
is the native tribe from Malaumkarta district,
Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia.

Plastic-Free Ocean Campaign with

SLANK band in Maluku Island.
15-Day Mangrove Expedition in 2019. Covered 1,013
kilometers of the south coast of West Papua and
visited 9 villages in 5 districts.

Namatota village in Kaimana,

nominated the best tourism
village in West Papua in 2022.
EcoXplorer, a multi-purpose boat for tourism, trading and community
capacity building in Eastern Indonesia
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Key Recommendations

❖ Efforts to limit climate crisis with meaningful and effective actions by G20 members.
❖ Evidence-based Policy recommendations. Using the results of science-based studies and evidence for policy
development.
❖ The Blue Economy concept should focus on innovation, environmentally friendly technology and maximum
utilization of raw materials. Indonesia requires a systematic effort to improve the production process of capture
fisheries and aquaculture to downstream with a pro-zero waste approach.
❖ EcoNusa encourages the implementation of an inclusive Blue Economy in the context of involving local
communities, indigenous peoples and small fishermen in fisheries management in the future. The
involvement of community is very important to ensure inclusiveness in the collaborative process of saving the coastal and
small island environment.
❖ Today's fishing practices which lead to an increase in PNBP must be handled with great care. The fisheries sector must
be managed sustainably and supported by environmentally friendly innovations, to be in line with the goals of
saving coastal and small islands.
❖ Protect Locally Managed Marine Areas-LMMA/Local Management-based Marine Areas, promote capture
fisheries regulatory framework in LLMA such as: regulate minimum standard of fish size to be harvested and
prohibited fishing gear, prohibit fishing in certain fishing areas and limit on fishing trips.
❖ Support optimal harvesting strategy, robust monitoring, surveillance, & substantial engagement with
community and stakeholders to tackle IUU Fishing, reduce post-harvest losses that occur in artisanal fisheries,
strengthen law enforcement, monitor fish stocks and fishing quotas at WPP level and provide up-to-date fish stock data.
 THANK YOU

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