Jakarta, Dec. 15 -- The Marine Affairs and Fisheries Ministry is strengthening blue carbon measurement standards for seagrass meadows to improve data credibility, enhance coastal conservation, support carbon trading, and reinforce Indonesia's concrete contribution to global climate change mitigation.

Koswara, an official of the ministry, in a statement in Jakarta on Sunday, stated that the ministry has launched a seagrass blue carbon measurement manual as a standard technical guideline to strengthen data credibility, conservation effectiveness, and Indonesia's contribution to climate change mitigation.

"The manual is the first national reference for measuring carbon stocks in seagrass ecosystems throughout Indonesia's coastal areas," Ko...