This report was completed in 1996 for TRAFFIC South East Asia. The TRAFFIC Network is an international organisation that acts as the wildlife trade-monitoring program of The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and The World Conservation Union (IUCN). TRAFFIC's purpose is to help ensure that wildlife trade is at sustainable levels and in accordance with domestic and international laws and agreements.

In 1993, the IUCN Shark Specialist Group met in Thailand and due to a lack of information for use in assessing the conservation status of shark populations, requested TRAFFIC to review the trade in sharks and shark products. In early 1994, TRAFFIC began to address the need for reliable information on the exploitation of sharks, rays and other chondrichthyans, by initiating a global investigation to collect and analyse available data on shark fisheries and trade. This information will be used to determine priority regions and species of conservation concern, and develop recommendations for appropriate harvest and trade controls.

To contribute to the objectives of the TRAFFIC study, this report gives an overview of the exploitation of sharks, rays and other chondrichthyans in Indonesia.

Bentley, N. (1996). Indonesia. In: Chen, H. K. (ed.), An overview of shark trade in selected countries of Southeast Asia . TRAFFIC Southeast Asia, Petaling Jaya.