Bogor, W Java - The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) received a total of 600 requests for permits to conduct research in Indonesia since 2010, a spokesman said. "Indonesia has biodiversity that attracts foreign scientists to carry out research here," Teguh Triono from the Global Taxonomy Initiative-LIPI said here on Monday at a workshop on "The Biodiversity Convention in the Post Nagoya Protocol: the Latest Issues and Implementation." The foreign researchers are among others from the United States, Japan, France, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy, and Canada. "They mostly want to conduct research on biodiversity, both flora and fauna, and other fields," he said. The Nagoya Protocol allows countries like Indonesia to be strict in issuing permits to foreign researchers in order to protect their genetic sources. "The Nagoya Protocol is useful for Indonesia, therefore, we are trying to optimally implement the Nagoya Protocol," Teguh said. The workshop organized by the Research and Community Service Institute of the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) was participated in by around 20 people consisting of researchers and lecturers. Indonesia, one of the world's mega biodiversity countries, has officially become a Nagoya Protocol partner country after signing the protocol at the UN Headquarters in New York on May 11, 2011. "The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity" is a legally binding international agreement which aims at sharing the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way. (*)


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