AMIR Kani, Togean Traditional Community chief, is vexed. The government forbids people to take coral reefs and to cut down the mangrove trees. “While, in fact, it is the policy makers that damage them,” said Amir, a local figure in Wakai village, Tojo Unauna regency, Central Sulawesi.

The mining of coral is used to build cottages funded by the regional government. In fact, only stones on land can be used to build cottages, not coral from the