Indonesia

Conservation Efforts/Research Activities

     Limited research has been conducted on their biology and its management, particularly 
  hawksbill turtle. Head starting and tagging marine turtles activities has being done in several 
  conservation areas such as; Kepulauan Seribu National Park; Meru Betiri NP; Alas Purwo NP; 
  Pangumbahan beach and Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve. Monitoring post nesting migration for 
  hawksbill turtle will be done in Seribu Islands, Java sea and Jamursba-medi beach, Irian 
  Jaya for leatherback.  
   
   
       Some research activities on marine turtle are still 
  running in some marine conservation areas as follows: 
  
  1. Tagging program 
  2. Head staring program 
  3. Nesting monitoring program 
  4. Satellite tracking program 
  5. mtDNA analysis of hawksbill.