Jakarta, Dec 4 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's maritime and fishery potentials
are not yet fully exploited as investors so far are still lacking
attention to these sectors which actually offer profitable resources. The Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries Affairs (KKP) has set an
investment target of Rp23.67 trillion in the maritime and fishery
sectors this year, yet this amount is viewed as very small if compared
with the richness of fisheries resources.
If investment in other sectors is taken into account, the Rp23.67
trillion is relatively small, accounting for only 0.4 percent of the
total investment made in the primary sectors.
The same is true to foreign investment whose value in the maritime and
fisheries sectors accounts for only 0.3 percent of the total foreign
investment or about 1.2 percent of the total foreign investment made in
the primary sectors.
"Most of the investment is expected to be made in fish culturing
activities. Up to the third quarter of this year, investment in the fish
culture has reached Rp15.82 trillion," Maritime and Fisheries Affairs
Minister Sharif Cicip Sutardjo said on Monday.
In fact, former maritime and fisheries affairs minister Fadel Muhammad
was optimistic that the maritime and fisheries sector would become one
of the country's major foreign exchange earners.
At the beginning of the second-term of President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono, Fadel was named minister for maritime and fisheries affairs.
He soon set an ambitious program to transform Indonesia into one of the
world's fish producing center in 2014 with his "minapolitan" program, a
fishery-based region development concept.
However, he only served for about two years and was replaced by his
colleague from the Golkar Party Sharif Cicip Sutardjo in late 2011.
Until now, the plan to make Indonesia one of the major fish-producing
countries in the world by 2014 has not borne fruit.
Therefore, investors should be encouraged to turn attention to the
maritime and fisheries resources which also promise huge economic
benefit. The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin)
therefore urged the government to facilitate and attract investors to
these sectors.
"The maritime sector is a natural resource which attracts the least
investors. While it is a fact that most investment shares are still
concentrated on on-shore business, the government will have to work hard
and make efforts to attract investment into the maritime and
fisheries," Kadin General Chairman Suryo Bambang Sulisto said on Monday.
He said that efforts to attract investors to the maritime and fisheries
sectors would need effective partnership between the government and the
business world through Kadin. The maritime and fisheries needed to be
developed through an integrated investment because segmental investment
could not solve the problem.
"Integrated investment is needed because the fisheries problem has a
wide spectrum," the Kadin chairman said. Both the up and down streams of
the fisheries faced investment problems relating to catching capacity,
storage, preservation, packing, transportation and marketing.
With regard to the up and down stream problem, Minister Sharif Cicip
Sutardjo said that his ministry will aim the maritime and fishery
development at linking the chains of the upstream and downstream
fisheries sectors.
The minister said that science and technology aspects will be applied
in the development of the maritime and fisheries in every point of the
chains that link upstream and downstream sectors.
"To increase the added value of the maritime and fisheries sector, the
maritime and fisheries will continue to encourage the cultivation of
both the on-farm and off-farm fisheries so that it would have positive
impact on the people's economy and foreign exchange earnings," Minister
Sharif said.
He said that if 80 percent of the population consumed 31.64 kilograms
fish per capita per year, about 6 million tons of fish must be made
prepared a year.
According to Yulistyo Mudho, a spokesman of
the ministry of maritime and fisheries last year, the country's per
capita fish consumption in 2010 was recorded at 30.47 kg per annum,
an increase from 29.08 kg in 2009.
In the meantime, fish production from catching and culturing operations
amounted to 10.83 million tons in 2010, surpassing the target of 10.76
million tons for the year.
The cultured fish sector had become the weighed-in target achievement
in 2010 as production growth in the 2006-2010 period had increased 19.56
percent, compared to growth of the production of catching operation in
the same period which was recorded at 2.78 percent.
Now, Minister Sharif is developing the industrialization of the
nation's marine and fisheries sectors, through integrated upstream and
downstream production, will be accelerated by eight factors.
"These eight key factors should be completely supported by the
government, the people, and the business community," he said in a
written statement.
"The eight key factors are guaranteed availability of marine resources;
adequate facilities and infrastructure; innovation and application of
technology; high added value of marine and fisheries commodities;
reliable and competent human resources; well-managed market; investment
support from the business community; and favourable government
regulation," Sutardjo continued.
He noted that the main objective behind industrializing the marine and
fisheries sectors was 'to support the four pillars of national
development, namely pro-growth, pro-job, pro-poor, and pro-environment.'
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