Jakarta, May 23 (Antara) - Partner banks of the Coverage, Synergy and Guideline (Jaring) program are expected to expand credits up to Rp9.2 trillion this year for developing the maritime and fisheries sector and improving the fishermen's welfare.
"Credit disbursement for the Jaring program this year will hopefully amount to Rp9.2 trillion, up by 24.2 percent from Rp6.69 trillion in 2015," Financial Services Authority (OJK) Commissioner Muliaman D. Hadad noted in a press statement issued in Jakarta on Thursday (May 19).
Initiated by the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) and OJK, the Jaring scheme is aimed at improving the welfare of fishermen and advancing small- and medium-scale enterprises doing business in the maritime and fisheries sector.
The KKP is keen to develop synergy between the fishermen and exporters of fishery products in a bid to increase the country's export performance in the fishery sector.
Muliaman remarked that the Jaring program was launched a year ago to accelerate financing in the maritime and fisheries sector and to boost the prosperity of fishermen. The realization of the Jaring program in 2015 had successfully surpassed the target.
The OJK has identified 22 companies in the maritime and fisheries sector that had absorbed public funds through the capital market. Until May, the amount of collected funds through the capital market had reached Rp14.1 trillion.
The Jaring credit program being implemented in various regions is also expected to become a source of funding for fishermen and businesses in the maritime sector.
The Indonesian Public Credit Insurance Company fully supports the implementation of the Jaring program.
"The Jaring scheme aims to realize one of the government's programs, which focuses on boosting the development of the maritime sector through the maritime and fisheries financing program," Business Insurance Affairs Director of state-owned credit insurance company Perum Jamkrindo Bakti Prasetyo stated in Demak District, Central Java, on Thursday (May 12).
Prasetyo noted that Perum Jamkrindo was tasked with developing cooperatives and micro, small, and medium businesses and helping them gain access to banking credits.
With the insurance provided by Perum Jamkrindo, banks will not harbor doubts in channeling credits to small businesses and fishermen.
However, Secretary General of the People's Coalition for Fishery Justice (Kiara) Abdul Halim hoped that the Jaring program launched by the government will not trap fishermen in banking credit debts.
"The KKP and OJK have only designed a Jaring mechanism to channel bank funds in the form of loans while claiming it as an achievement," stated Halim.
The Kiara secretary general opined that the Jaring program encouraged fishermen to become debtors.
"This program does not reflect the message of the State Ideology of Pancasila based on the principle of mutual help," he pointed out.
Halim has suggested that the Indonesian government should take a cue from Malaysia, which provided its fishermen with guidance and funds that could be rotated for productive maritime and fisheries endeavors.
In the meantime, Slamet Soebjakto, the cultured fish director general of the KKP, said the maritime affairs and fisheries wanted to create mutual help and synergy between fishermen and maritime businesses, particularly fish exporters.
"We will continue to develop and encourage cooperation between exporters and fish farmers, particularly cultured farmers for groupers," Slamet Soebjakto said.
The marketing problem will be overcome if the exporters and fish farmers cooperate well in a strategic partnership, the director general said.
It was reported earlier that the KKP stated that live groupers of cultural production can now be exported again after the maritime affairs and fisheries minister issued a decree No.15/2016 on Live Fish Cargo Ship.
"After the issuance of the maritime affairs and fisheries minister's decree, I am convinced that the exports of live fish such as groupers will increase," the director general said.
In order to facilitate fish exports, the government has named 181 seaports for fish exports.
The appointment of the 181 ports is in line with the circular of the director general of cultured fish of the KKP dated February 1.
The director general's circular was issued to terminate the license extension system practiced so far for foreign ships collecting fish for exports. The license extension system has contributed to low fish exports over the past three months.
"The step taken by the KPP is an effort to rearrange the presence of foreign ships in Indonesia," he said.
Moreover, he said, a number of foreign ships, such as those coming from Hong Kong often anchor near the cultured fish areas in Indonesia.
Such ship activities violate the cabotage principles as regulated under the shipping law. Therefore, the KKP is determined to rearrange the matter.
"The assigned 181 fish export ports are found in a number of regions across the country," Slamet Soebjakto, said in a written statement here on Thursday (May 19).
The director general said fish exports in various regions have returned to normal. Exporters, for example, will be allowed to ship their exports from the Teluk Awang port in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
He also explained that the assignment of the 181 ports is based on an agreement between exporters and stakeholders in the fisheries sector.
In the future, foreign flagged ships, which transport fish products can moor and carry out loading and unloading at the assigned ports. ***1***(A014/INE)EDITED BY INE
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