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As lead country of the WG, Indonesia presented the Report of the WG Meeting on Agriculture, Agro-Based Industry and Environment (WGAAE). The meeting noted the progress report of the five projects scheduled for implementation in 2007 by the WGAAE as reported in the January 2007 IMT-GT Planning Meeting in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. These included: palm oil tripartite cooperation; preparation/ dissemination of business opportunities in agriculture and agro-based industry in the IMT-GT sub-region; inventory of private sector fisheries and the publication of the web portal of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia; IMT-GT Expo and seminar for fisheries; and compilation and dissemination of information on policies, rules and regulations covering investment in agriculture. On the working mechanism for WGAAE, the meeting considered the possibility of forming sub-working groups and agreed to continue the existing mechanism. Special papers on various topics of concern to the WG were presented by each IMT-GT member country for the purpose of information exchange and knowledge enrichment. The WG identified nine agriculture and environment projects to be implemented in 2008. It was agreed that each member country would submit projects on agro-based industry to Indonesia by the end of June 2007.