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Cross-Border Cooperation on WPS & Maritime Environmental Crimes in the Coral Triangle: Workshop #2

04/23/2024

– 04/25/2024

04/23/2024

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Cross-Border Cooperation on WPS & Maritime Environmental Crimes in the Coral Triangle: Workshop #2

BALI WORKSHOP | APRIL 23-25, 2024


Download the Tetun Key Findings here.
Download the Bahasa Key Findings here.

WORKSHOP PURPOSE
In recent years, the links between the health of the maritime environment and national security have
come to the fore. Marine degradation exacerbates instability both at sea and on land. Crucially, women
are intimately involved in the maritime environment, but their contributions to its health and security
are often overlooked. In coastal communities in the Coral Triangle, more than 50% of fishery workers
are women; IUU fishing reduces the available stocks for women to catch, harming their economic and
social security. Building the capacity of partner maritime law enforcement agencies to identify and
tackle maritime environmental crimes is critical to the region’s security. By incorporating WPS
principles, this event series seeks to highlight the importance of women in the maritime environment
and the role it plays in advancing women’s economic and social empowerment.

WORKSHOP SERIES OBJECTIVES
1. Promote a cooperative effort between the maritime law enforcement agencies of Indonesia,
TimorLeste, and Papua New Guinea (PNG).
2. Integrate Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and promote crossborder cooperation in
tackling maritime environmental crime in the Coral Triangle and beyond.
3. Advise Indonesian, Timorese, and Papuan maritime law enforcement on incorporating a
gender perspective.
4. Promote dialogue between participants from local women’s CSOs and maritime law
enforcement that work on protecting the region’s maritime environment.

PARTICIPANTING COUNTRIES
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, TimorLeste

Participating Defense Force Branches
Indonesia
Bakamla, International Cooperation
Bakamla, Directorate of Law Enforcement
Directorate General of Marine and
Fisheries Resources Surveillance,
General Directorate of Fisheries
Fisheries Products Processing Surveillance,
Directorate of Management Fisheries
Resources Surveillance
Human Resources of Law Enforcement Officer
and Cooperation in Law Enforcement,
Directorate of Law Enforcement

TimorLeste
General Directorate of Fisheries, Aquaculture and
Marine Resources, Ministry of Agriculture,
Livestock, Fisheries
and Forestry
Ministry of Defense
National Police of TimorLeste

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea Defence Force

Participating Civil Society Organizations
Indonesia

Coral Triangle Center
Coral Triangle InitiativeCoral Reefs,
Fisheries, and Food Security
Destructive Fishing Watch
Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI)
Research Center for Society and Culture,
National Research and Innovation
Agency, Jakarta

Papua New Guinea
Advancing PNG Women Leaders Network
Piku Biodiversity Network Inc.
SeaWomen of Melanesia

TimorLeste
Belun
Fundasaun Mahein

 

Press Release HERE.