#INDONESIA🇮🇩

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Happy Independence Day Indonesia

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A group of Javanese women dancing in Sumatra, Indonesia (1870)

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Indotwt on their usual bs 😭😭😭

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Indon or something, idk man

Girlie is volcanically active

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You're Indo???

YEARGGHH

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Happy 78th Indonesian Independence Day

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August 17th, 2023

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there’s just something about august 17th❤️🤍🇮🇩

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About one-third of all shark species are threatened—and tens of millions are killed each year ​by commercial fishing industries. Photograph By David Maupile/Laif/Redux

Sharks Are Still Being Killed At High Rates—Despite Bans On Finning

Shark fishing regulations, including bans on cutting off fins, increased tenfold since 2000. Yet a new study shows that deaths may have actually ticked up as new markets for shark meat emerge.

— By Tim Vernimmen | January 11, 2024

In 2019 at least 79 million sharks died in fisheries, and at least 25 million of those belonged to threatened species—numbers that have stayed steady or even risen in the past decade.

Compared to 10 years ago, fewer of those sharks died because people cut off their fins and threw them back into the sea—a practice known as finning that is now prohibited in about 70 percent of countries and overseas territories. But regulations that have reduced the frequency of finning have not saved shark lives, an international research team reports in the journal Science this week.

“If anything, global shark mortality has slightly increased,” says Boris Worm, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Canada. Now most sharks are landed whole, and a growing demand for shark products has driven fisheries to continue catching the animals.

Worm and seven colleagues spent the past three years collecting data on shark mortality and fishery regulations. “This was really a challenge,” he says, “as shark fisheries are notoriously underreported. We compiled everything we could find, from catch numbers to data from observers on boats in international waters to estimates of coastal fishing that include recreational, artisanal, and even illegal fishing.”

Employees of the Kowalski fishing industry in Santa Catarina, Brazil, wash sharks recently caught in ocean fishing. Photograph By Victor MoriyamaFor National Geographic

A counter in a Chinese medicine shop in Taipei sells shark fins. Photograph By Michael Wolf Estate/Laif/Redux

The global analysis reveals that even though there has been a tenfold increase in regulations on shark fishing and finning, mortality in the past decade remained more or less the same, with estimates of 76 million dead sharks due to fishing in 2012 and at least 80 million in 2018. Given that not all catches are reported in sufficient detail and some aren’t recorded at all, the researchers say, the number of deaths is likely to be significantly higher.

A Shark 🦈 Market

Marine ecologist Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in Canada, who has not involved in the study, points out finning regulations did help “to ensure many catches could be identified to the species level, which is necessary for catch and trade limits” and also aids research. “Regulation of international trade has now begun, with the protection of over 100 shark species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora,” he says.

While these trade regulations appear to have led to fewer sharks getting killed in international fisheries, coastal fisheries have started catching more sharks.

To try to understand why that might be, the researchers interviewed 22 experts including scientists, conservationists, and people working in fisheries or companies that process shark products. “They’ve told us that existing markets for shark products have expanded,” says marine conservation scientist Laurenne Schiller of Carleton University in Canada, a co-author of the study. “Which may be due in part to the increased availability of sharks resulting from anti-finning regulations.”

Shark meat, even from endangered sharks, is increasingly found in a variety of food products, and not just in still-popular shark fin soup. Shark is also often used in fish and chips, in ceviche, or as a fraudulent alternative for swordfish.

In addition, shark cartilage and liver oil are common ingredients in the medical and cosmetics industries. “Many beauty products contain squalene,” Schiller says, “which usually, but not necessarily, derives from sharks. So it’s good to look for products that use plant-based alternatives instead.”

The researchers say that that to save sharks, anti-finning laws clearly do not suffice, and there need to be more extensive fishing regulations.

“There are 29 countries and overseas territories that have already prohibited shark fishing in their waters,” says Worm. “The Bahamas, for example, have discovered that sharks were worth much more as a dive attraction for the ecotourism industry, which is booming. On average, we see such prohibitions are the only tool that consistently reduced mortality, so we would encourage that.”

Fishermen go out fishing sharks in Cananeia, a coastal town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Restrictions on species allowed for fishing have led many local fishermen to specialize in other fish and crustaceans such as shrimp and sea bass. Photograph By Victor MoriyamaFor National Geographic

Gillnets Kill

In places where people depend on fisheries for their livelihoods or sustenance, bans may not be appropriate, but keeping fisheries at sustainable levels is crucial to maintaining wild populations.

“This includes, of course, science-based catch limits for sharks,” says Schiller. “But many interviewees also told us about the dangers of unselective fishing gears, like gillnets.” These walls of netting that hang vertically in the water column are designed to catch fish by their gills, and they tend to entangle every animal that is too large to fit through the mesh. “Our own analyses show they are commonly used in the places we identify as mortality hotspots. So phasing them out and encouraging more selective practices in places like Indonesia, Brazil, Mauritania, or Mexico could have a big impact,” Schiller says.

“We know that shark populations are under enormous pressure from fishing throughout much of the world’s oceans,” says marine biologist Colin Simpfendorfer of James Cook University in Australia, who was not involved in the study, “and the data presented in this new paper add further evidence.”

While finning regulations have not led to decreased shark deaths, Simpfendorfer points out they weren’t designed to reduce catches, but to prevent suffering and the waste of sharks being killed for their fins alone.

Without increased efforts to protect sharks, at least one in three species will face the threat of extinction, and many more are suffering population declines.

“I have many colleagues who are oceanographers, and they tell me that in the 70s and 80s, there were always sharks following the vessel because of the kitchen scraps they threw overboard—typically oceanic whitetips, a formerly very abundant species that is now endangered and hardly ever seen. I’ve never seen one in my life,” says Worm. “That’s when you get that sinking feeling that something is really wrong with the way we’re treating them. We should fix that, and we can.”

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SELAMAT HARI RAYA KEMERDEKAAN INDONESIA🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

(Yes. I'm Indonesian)

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bye i just watched across the spider-verse and the need to make a spideysona is so real 😭

like hear me out spider-girl indonesia named putri prasetya and her suit has a batik design instead of webs

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Siswa Al Hikmah IIBS Batu Cetak Sejarah Baru, Borong Medali Emas dan Puncaki Peringkat Dunia

SMA Al Hikmah Islamic International Boarding School (IIBS) Batu kembali mengukir prestasi membanggakan di kancah nasional dan internasional melalui pencapaian luar biasa salah satu siswanya dalam dua kompetisi bergengsi.

Muhammad Fatih El Fahmi, siswa kelas XI SMA Al Hikmah IIBS Batu, berhasil menorehkan prestasi gemilang dengan meraih medali emas dalam ajang Tournament of National Excellence (TONE). Kompetisi nasional ini diikuti ribuan peserta dari seluruh Indonesia, dan Fatih berhasil membuktikan keunggulannya dalam bidang Ekonomi.

Prestasi Fatih tidak berhenti di level nasional. Dalam kompetisi International Science Qualification Olympiad (ISQO) yang diselenggarakan pada 6 Oktober 2024, ia berhasil menembus 10 besar dengan nilai tertinggi. Pencapaian ini semakin membanggakan mengingat ISQO diikuti oleh 21.148 peserta dari berbagai negara.

"Prestasi gemilang ini tidak lepas dari dukungan orang tua, guru, dan seluruh civitas akademika SMA Al Hikmah IIBS Batu," ujar pihak sekolah dalam keterangan resminya. Sekolah ini telah berhasil menciptakan lingkungan belajar yang kondusif dan memotivasi siswa untuk terus berprestasi.

Keberhasilan Muhammad Fatih El Fahmi di bidang Ekonomi dalam kedua ajang bergengsi ini diharapkan dapat menjadi inspirasi bagi siswa-siswi lainnya. Pencapaian ini juga membuktikan bahwa siswa-siswi Al Hikmah IIBS Batu memiliki kualitas yang mampu bersaing tidak hanya di tingkat nasional tetapi juga internasional.

SMA Al Hikmah IIBS Batu berharap prestasi ini dapat memotivasi seluruh siswa untuk terus mengembangkan diri dan meraih lebih banyak prestasi di masa depan. Dengan dukungan sistem pendidikan yang komprehensif dan lingkungan pembelajaran yang mendukung, sekolah ini terus berkomitmen untuk menghasilkan generasi unggul yang mampu bersaing di kancah global.

Tentang Kompetisi

Tournament of National Excellence (TONE) Merupakan kompetisi tingkat nasional yang diikuti ribuan peserta dari seluruh Indonesia.

International Science Qualification Olympiad (ISQO) Kompetisi internasional bergengsi yang pada tahun 2024 diikuti oleh 21.148 peserta dari berbagai negara.

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Happy Independence day my fellow Indonesians!

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Selamat Hari kemerdekaan RI ke-79 semuanya!

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