Indonesian Seas 57 Giwa Regional Assessment
The Indonesian Seas GIWA region 57 contains most of the land and seas
of the Republic of Indonesia; some 18 000 islands with 1.9 million km2
of land area and 6 million km2 of seas. The region is geologically and
topographically diverse, lying at the global centre of tropical marine
biodiversity. Because of the highly signifi cant geographic, oceanographic,
demographic and biodiversity diff erences within the region, the
Assessment was conducted independently for three sub-systems
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