Ministry of Industry and Trade with Ministry of Marine Affair and Fisheries held the Technical Meeting on Controlling and Monitoring of Coral Reefs Utilization, October 31 to November 2, 2001 in Bali. This event aimed to get same opinion/vision on coral trade.

The stakeholders realized there are some weakness or limitation in management and monitoring of coral utilization, especially in live coral trade. Government needs inputs and advices for reviewing the existing regulation and cooperation with other stakeholders for fixing the weakness. Coral Reef Working Group (CRWG) was established to fulfill that needs. The members are individuals who have appreciation and attention on coral reef and represent each institution or organization.

So far the working group consists of 16 institutions that are:

• Governments comprise of :Ministry of Marine Affair & Fisheries, Ministry of Forestry and Estate Crops, Indonesia Institution of Sciences, State Ministry of environment, Ministry of industry and trade, Ministry of Coordination of economic, and Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project (COREMAP)
• University represented by Bogor Agriculture University (IPB)
• NGOs comprise of Indonesian Coral Reef Foundation (Terangi), WWF Indonesia, IMA Indonesia, Telapak, The Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI), Indonesia Ecollabelling Institute (LEI) and MAC
• Private sectors comprise of Indonesian Coral, Shell and Ornamental Fish Association (AKKII), Indonesia Certify Agencies Association (ALSI)
  

Terangi is chosen as coordinator for the working group.

Bali's meeting also pointed first six agendas for CRWG that encompas:

• Certification
• Developing an agency or institution for Indonesian to keep up CITES information (advisory agency or scientific committee)
• Reviewing the Pattern of Sustainable Ornamental Coral Utilization (PSOCU) and issuing the pattern as a coral trade legal compliance
• Justifying the sustainable coral reefs utilization
• Developing the supporting system for monitoring and controlling coral reef utilization
• Developing the system for optimizing the Management Authority functions and authorities.

The first agenda taking is reviewing the Pattern of Sustainable Ornamental Coral Utilization. LIPI, PHKA and WWF in 1998 developed the Pattern in term fulfilling a need on management of coral utilization for ornamental trade purposes. So far the implementation is very minim, as the pattern has no legal binding.

From several conducted meetings, some results are:

• Sustainable use of ornamental corals use
• Negative List Area; a list that consists restricted areas for corals yield for aquarium
• Coral potential study plan in some currently coral yielding location

This study will hopefully be an input for completing corals quote mechanism in Indonesia. A formulating team was formed in the process of completing the documents of PPKHL in March, and doing socializations to several instantions in April 2002. The members of formulating team comprise of: Dedy Sudharma (IPB) as team coordinator, Sukarno (COREMAP), Chaerudin (LH), Samedi (Dephutbun), Suyatno (Depperindag), Rina Hadirini (DKP), Jan Henning Steffen (Kehati-Terangi) and Indra Wijaya/Uus A. Kudus (AKKII) as member.