Huge fisheries potential of
Indonesia has not been balanced with high quality of human resources needed in
the development of this sector. On the other hand, government policies have led
to efforts to optimize to marine & fisheries sector by fishermen in order
to achieve the ideals of Indonesia to become world maritime axis.
“The competitiveness of marine & fisheries human
resources needs to be improved. Foreign vessels are no longer free to take our
marine products, so that our nation should be the main actor in fisheries
management, “said Deputy Chairman of Marine and Fisheries Department of the
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN Indonesia), Yugi Prayanto,
in Jakarta, on Monday (March 2).
According to him, marine & fisheries human resource
development must touch all aspects ranging from upstream to downstream. In
other words, it is not limited to capability and traditional fishing
activities, but also aquaculture ability and other management techniques. “We
want the fishermen to not only be good at catching fish, but also to have
skills. It would be better of these people become competent ship crews, ship
captains or chief engineers. We also except that the aquaculture ability of our
fishermen will develop, “he explained.
Yugi added that fisheries and marine education should be
synergized with business or entrepreneurship through the implementation of
special education & training and adequate training activities. “In the
future, aquaculture should be a trend that can stimulate the development of
innovations to be able to generate added value for this sector. The processing
industry sector will require many workers who have specific skill. This is our
challenge in the future for marine & fisheries human resources to be more
competitive, “he said.
In relation to this, he admitted that his party has
completed KADIN’s fisheries industry training in Seram Island, Maluku, where
the development has been initiated since two years ago with an investment of
IDR 7 billion. In the near future, his party will construct 7 fishing vessels
for training weighing 300 gross tons. The objective of KADIN Indonesia in
building these schools is an effort to improve skills at the young age the
economic management of fisheries.
Through this education, he hoped that the younger
generation will be interested in working in fisheries profession as skilled
workers and entrepreneurs. Therefore, in the future, there will be a lot of
competent young people engage in fisheries business. The enforcement of
competency certification for extension workers and graduates should be given
and appreciated. We hope that it will become the attention of the government,
and hopefully the program can be accelerated so that our human resources will
be better prepared in facing global competition, “he concluded.
Based on data from the Ministry of Industry, the national
fish processing industry consist of 37 large-scale business units that absorb
62,000 workers, with an investment of IDR 1.5 trillion. National fish
processing industry has an installed capacity of 339 thousand tons with 197
thousand tons of production capacity/year, resulting in a utilization of 58%.
The problem faced by the fish processing industry, among others, the seafood
industry, especially processed fish, which is in shortage of raw materials due
to transshipment of fish in the sea. In addition, there is no Mutual
Recognition Agreement (MRA) concerning standard mutual recognition with seafood
export destination countries, so that many processed fish products are rejected
by export destination countries.
To that end, the Ministry of Industry has arranged a fish
processing industry development program that ensures the availability of raw
materials; prepared skilled and competent human resources in the field of fish
processing industry; improved technological mastery and innovation of fish
processing technology; improved the efficiency of processing and quality
assurance; coordinate the development of logistics system; and facilitated
access to competitive financing for small and medium-scale fish processing
industry. (E)
Business News - March 6, 2015
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