Jakarta, Oct. 26 -- The Indonesian Embassy in Washington, D.C., is organizing a global collaborative forum with international financial institutions and conservation bodies to step up the protection of the Coral Triangle.

The forum will be held in partnership with the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) and scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C., in the spring of next year.

It will bring together key multilateral and non-governmental stakeholders, including the World Bank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the World Resources Institute (WRI), Conservation International, and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

In an official s...