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| Trying to save a whale |
On Friday, 14 December 2012, the Ministry of Marine and
Fisheries Affairs (MMAF) held a meeting in Jakarta to discuss the Standard
Operating Procedure to handle stranded marine mammals across Indonesia. Among
the attendants were representatives of several divisions under the MMAF, the
Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), WWF Indonesia, Jakarta Animal Aid
Network (JAAN) and Conservation International Indonesia (that was me). The
meeting was actually the third meeting to discuss the SOP, so when I arrived, I
was already presented with the latest draft.
We agreed to limit the discussion on the SOP outline. The
SOP will be printed as a book (in Indonesian), distributed to various places in
the Archipelago, particularly where stranding events often occurred. We
eventually agreed upon the following outline:
