CTC facilitated a half-day meeting and dialogue between the delegation of German government and some representatives of Indonesian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) last month to discuss the energy transition, plastic waste, climate change and biodiversity loss. The German Ambassador to Indonesia, ASEAN and Timor-Leste, Ambassador Ina...
On the last day of June, CTC was invited to host a coral clay workshop at Club Med Bali, Nusa Dua. After being closed for two years due to COVID-19 pandemic, Club Med are so excited to re-open their doors to the world. As part...
Despite their active participation, women’s empowerment in the supply chain of blue swimming crab (BSC) in the Central Java Province has not yet reached its full potential because there isn’t enough baseline data. In order to identify and document some of the critical responsibilities that...
Earlier this month CTC hosted a visit from Marine Buddies to our CTC Center for Marine Conservation. Marine Buddies is a community group that campaigns on marine issues and engages the wider community to take part in marine conservation. Their visit to CTC is part...
The threat of coral bleaching has now spread throughout the world, including to Indonesia. The NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) quarterly reports on coral bleaching indicated that heat stress would trigger coral bleaching in the Nusa Penida Marine Protected Area (MPA) from June to September....
On 25 June 2022, CTC hosted another successful session of the Ocean Keeper’s Club on “The Amazing Coral Reefs”. With the help of the Club’s virtual learning assistants (Max, Mindy, and Octa the Octopus) participants learned all about the importance of coral reefs to aquatic...
On June 9, every year we mark Coral Triangle Day, celebrating the world’s epicenter of marine biodiversity, containing 76% of the world’s coral species, 37% of the world’s reef fish species, and supporting millions of people by providing their food and livelihoods. This year’s Coral...
In late May, the CTC team officially started an internal yoga class that takes place in the front yard of our office. The session, which begins after work hours, is led by a yoga instructor named Komang Desiani. Desi is a certified yoga teacher from...
CTC Executive Director Rili Djohani and Marine Conservation Adviser Marthen Welly recently attended the 2nd Asia Parks Congress held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia from May 24-28, 2022. The Congress was a gathering of Asia’s protected area practitioners and brought together leaders...
CTC Executive Director Rili Djohani makes the case for Indonesia to take a bigger role in catalyzing collective action for the ocean at the global level in an Op-Ed piece published in the Jakarta Post on June 8, 2022. “The challenge for Indonesia to scale...
