“International Colloquium Society for Coastal Ecosystem Studies – Asia Pasific (SCESAP) 2016” seminar held at July 20-21 2016 in Faculty of Fishery and Marine Science, Farming Institute Bogor. The main theme in “International Colloquium Society for Coastal Ecosystem Studies – Asia Pacific (SCESAP) 2016” is “Connecting Marine Biodiversity to People”. There are 4 topics that discussed in colloquium: (1)Policy and processing rule of sea Biodiversity. (2) Fishery and Marine science (3) Ecosystem degradation, pollution, eutrophication, and habitat extinction.(4) Coastal ecosystem in Social and Culture context. In this colloquium, there are 58 scientific work that will be discussed.  They divided into 4 main papers, 3 special papers, 27 oral presentation,and 24 poster presentation. 4 main speakers are:

Dr. Alan T. White, Director of SEA-Project USAID Indonesia,who discuss about lesson learned in ICM implementation

1. Dr. Luky Adrianto, FPIK IPB Dean, discuss about EAFM
2. Dr. Sri Fatmawati from ITS and Universitaire’ European de la Mer (IUEM) institute Brest-France,who discuss the potential of  sea product.
3. Dr. Ario Damar, Chief of PKSPL IPB, discuss about Eutrophication.

Speical paper presentation about conversion processing project are lead by Rare Director Dr. Taufiq Alimi and WWF Indonesia I Wayan Veda Santiadji (“ARS”)

 Research Group member who follows this seminar and get a chance to become oral speaker is Dr. Ir. Dewa Gede Raka Wiadnya, MSc with topic title “Severity of coral reef mass-bleaching events in Southern Java Sea, Indonesia.