ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of the fishing practices and management of marine resources by the Bajau community of the Tukangbesi Archipelago off the south-east corner of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It analyses the evolution of Indonesia's environmental policy with respect to marine resources since the 1992 United Nations (UN) Conference on Environment and Development. The chapter highlights the increased role that the community' is supposed to play, as set out in Agenda 21, in improving management of these resources and it analyses the moves towards a more inclusive model in the context of the Wakatobi Marine National Park. The management of fisheries resources is based upon fish quotas. Marine conservation began with the formation of the Directorate of Marine Conservation within the Department of Forestry in 1981. The chapter deals with the biodiversity convention and marine and coastal zone management.
