The Indonesian government is designing a new scheme to measure the long-term benefits provided by the country’s marine and coastal ecosystems. The ocean accounting system will serve as the standard indicator for the government in policymaking and zoning regarding Indonesia’s fisheries, conservation areas, and marine essential ecosystems. “We’ve been working on the ocean account with the primary intention to know the marine assets that we have, kind of like using the ATM to check our savings” … The fisheries ministry’s zoning office has been working in tandem to develop the tools with the country’s statistics agency (BPS), geospatial information agency (BIG), fiscal monetary agency (BKF) at the finance ministry, and development planning ministry (Bappenas). He added the data produced would be integrated into a unified government map showing how natural resources are being used across the country.
