Protected areas of Indonesia

Protected areas of Indonesia comprise both terrestrial and marine environments in any of the six IUCN Protected Area categories. There are over 500 protected areas in Indonesia, of which 54 National Parks cover 16.4 million ha, and another 527 nature and game reserves cover a further 28.3 million ha.[1] The total protected land area represents over 15% of Indonesia's landmass.[2] Marine Protected Areas comprise over 15.7 million ha representing ca. 5% of territorial waters.[3]

  1. ^ Convention on Biological Diversity: "Indonesia Country Profile", retrieved 24 December 2013
  2. ^ World Database on Protected Areas: Summary of protection by Country and Territory on 31 January 2008, retrieved 2009-09-30 Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Yulianto was invoked but never defined (see the help page).