World Ocean Conference is the first conference in the world discussing on naval from initiative of Indonesian government. WOC arranged in Manado, North Sulawesi, in May 11-14, 2009 issuing any agreement of 450 delegation members representing 76 countries and 11 world institutions as the WOC members. Indonesia had highest naval biodiversity in the world including ridge of rock exposed at low tide. The waters including 1.6 percents of the world water storages of 76 percents species of rock ridge. Also, 37 percents species of rock ridge fish. Manado Ocean Declaration consists of 14 main introduction paragraphs and 21 points of operative agreement. the countries whose implement the point of declaration are: Indonesia, Pakistan, Grenada, Somalia, Suriname, U.S., Korea, France, India, China, Cambodia, Angola, Filipina, Malaysia, Filipina, Thailand, and Namibia. They will implement the development with environmental concept and waters resource management. By the declaration it can gives any supports in implementation of perception exchange on naval that in actual situation the discussion still ignored.
Correlation between MOD and CTI (Coral Triangle Initiatives) Summit in New York at June is the six national leader meeting from Indonesia, Filipina, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor Leste that known as the coral triangle. The declaration of Coral Triangle Initiatives Summit oriented to any several points in protection ridge the rock in four member territories. Our country, Indonesia, has given support to be secretary of CTI as it is the largest island country with enormous diversity of naval resources. Assumption of economic usage in coral triangle is can experience by 363 million populations of six countries around setting. Also, more than 120 million people who lives in coastal area depends their live on the natural resource. The economic value can gained annually about US$2.3 billion dollar or 21 billion in Rupiah. By Coral Triangle Initiatives Summit, it can be an expectation on protection, system, share of resource in support of actualization an agreement points.
It is expected that MOD agreement can be an agenda of marine problem in subsequent conference of United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 7-18, 2009. It is important because many countries had riches waters but cannot use them in optimum include in protection. Agenda of marine crisis overcome and climate exchange would not give results if depending on trade of carbon. The result of MOD agreement cannot seen in directly but possible in long-term that world population will found natural exchange move into the continuous management in gives protection. MOD can be the one of considered declaration reference to makes decision on environmental at the national or international levels. Therefore, with Manado Ocean Declaration bring into United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) it will gives consideration in any global environmental discussion in international level that finally create perception on naval protection as the most important aspect in world climate exchange.