Kalau Susi jadi presiden, fish lady jadi first lady ??? Kalau first ledek sudah banyak......
On 9 March 2018 at 09:57, Sunny ambon [email protected] [GELORA45] < [email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.atimes.com/article/indonesias-fish-lady-fights-stay-course/ > > > fisheries <http://www.atimes.com/tag/fisheries/> > Indonesia’s ‘Fish Lady’ fights to stay the course Fisheries Minister Susi > Pudjiastuti has sunk over 363 foreign pirate fishing boats but faces rising > political challenges to her conservation-friendly campaign > > By John McBeth <http://www.atimes.com/writer/john-mcbeth/> Jakarta, March > 8, 2018 1:26 PM (UTC+8) > > - > > 34 > <http://www.atimes.com/article/indonesias-fish-lady-fights-stay-course/#> > > [image: Indonesian Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has overseen the > demolition of foreign fishing boats caught poaching in Indonesian waters. > Photo: NurPhoto via AFP Forum/(Donal Husni]Indonesian Fisheries Minister > Susi Pudjiastuti has overseen the demolition of foreign fishing boats > caught poaching in Indonesian waters. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP Forum/(Donal > Husni > > Indonesia’s most popular Cabinet member, Fisheries Minister Susi > Pudjiastuti, is willing to serve a second term if President Joko Widodo > wins re-election next year – but on the condition that he retains the ban > on foreign trawlers fishing in Indonesian waters. > > Pudjiastuti is nothing if she is not stubborn, but that may be what it > takes to prevent powerful Indonesian rent-seekers from being allowed to > return to their decades-long practice of decimating their own country’s > maritime resources. > > The dailyReport <http://www.atimes.com/the-daily-report/> > > Must-reads from across Asia - directly to your inbox > > More than 45% of the 1,100 foreign fishing boats previously permitted in > Indonesian waters were registered under so-called foreign investment > companies owned by a well-connected businessman and two politicians > belonging to President Joko Widodo’s ruling coalition, according to > Pudjiastuti. > > Most of their catch was shipped back to ports in neighbouring countries, > as were those of the 10,000 other foreign boats that were estimated to be > fishing illegally in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) at any one > time, costing the country as much as US$20 billion a year in lost revenues, > say a range of senior officials. > > Indonesian fishing boats are still being paid to off-load their catch on > to foreign mother ships waiting beyond the 200-mile EEZ, but officials > estimate that fish stocks have increased significantly since Pudjiastuti > slapped a ban on foreign fishing boats in one of her first acts as minister > in October 2014. > > The minister estimates the domestic maritime catch increased from six > million tons in 2016 to nine million tons last year, still within what is > considered to be the sustainable limit of 12.5 million tons even with some > leeway for under-reporting. > > [image: Indonesian fishing boats float with Mount Agung, an active volcano > located on the resort island of Bali, in the background. Photo: Antara > Foto/Ahmad Subaidi/via Reuters] > > Indonesian fishing boats float with Mount Agung, an active volcano located > on the resort island of Bali, in the background. Photo: Antara Foto/Ahmad > Subaidi/via Reuters > > Indonesia’s marine fishing fleet comprises about 506,000 vessels, most of > them outrigger-type craft operating within a few miles of the coast which > account for an estimated 40-50% of the total catch. > > About 50,000 vessels are in the 20-30-ton range and stay within the > 12-mile limit, leaving only 10,000 larger boats of 30 tons or more to range > further afield and target tuna in the Western Pacific and Indian oceans. > > It has been Pudjiastuti’s determination to face down vested interests and > continue with the policy of blowing up captured intruding trawlers that > have endeared her to an Indonesian public unused to seeing officials – and > a woman at that – score one for the good guys. > > Although it might be self-effacing rhetoric, she insists the policy is not > hers but rather part of a legal process authorized under the 2004 Fisheries > Law, whose provisions were never rigorously enforced under the previous > Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono administration. > > Conservationists at the time said Indonesia was at a crucial juncture in > its fisheries management, given ample evidence that fisheries resources > would continue to decline and that over-fishing was a growing problem. > > “Without government intervention, fisheries, like other natural resources, > are subject to open access and therefore over-exploitation,” wrote maritime > policy expert Jason Patlis back in 2009 in urging the government to > “aggressively improve” its regulatory and enforcement mechanisms. > > [image: The demolition and sinking of a pirate fishing ship by the > Indonesian Navy at the Pangandaran Sea, West Java. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP/ > Donal Husni] > > The demolition and sinking of a pirate fishing ship by the Indonesian Navy > at the Pangandaran Sea, West Java. Photo: NurPhoto via AFP/ Donal Husni > > He could not have foreseen just how aggressive it would become. Indonesian > courts have so far ordered the sinking of 363 foreign fishing boats — with > another 60 facing the same fate — since the Widodo government introduced > measures to save the country’s maritime resources from rampant poaching. > > But Pudjiastuti has had to withstand efforts from all quarters to reverse > that policy, seeing even the smallest concession as the thin end of the > wedge. “Right now, I am being disturbed by my colleagues,” she told *Asia > Times*. “They disagree with so many things and try to do things behind my > back.” > > When Maritime Coordinating Minister Luhut Panjaitan, the president’s > senior political adviser and her immediate superior, sought to put an end > to the boat-sinking policy in January, Pudjiastuti went over his head and > complained directly to Widodo. > > Panjaitan and Vice President Jusuf Kalla both claimed the policy was > harming relations with neighbouring countries and said that instead of > being destroyed the boats should be auctioned off or sold to local > companies to boost fish production and improve maritime exports. > > But as he has done before, the president stuck with Pudjiastuti. “Sinking > the fishing boats is a form of law enforcement,” he said, calling it a > policy that is in the best interests of the people. “We’re trying to show > that we do not tolerate illegal fishing.” > > [image: Indonesia's Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi > Pudjiastuti rows her paddleboard at Sunda Strait near Cilegon, Indonesia > March 3, 2018. Antara Foto/Wahyu Putro A via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - > THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT..] > > Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti rows a paddleboard at Sunda Strait > near Cilegon, Indonesia March 3, 2018. Antara Foto via Reuters/Wahyu Putro > > That and preserving Indonesia’s sovereignty may be two reasons, but > Pudjiastuti says most of the captured fishing boats are trawlers often > manned by more than 20 crewmen, which are not permitted to operate in > Indonesian waters anyway. > > The minister says her main mission during a second term would be to > attract more investment in processing and allow exports from regional ports > to be sent direct to regional markets – a move that she believes would > prevent the rent-seekers from making a comeback. > > Despite its size and vast maritime resources, Indonesia has never figured > among the world’s top 10 seafood-exporting countries, lagging far behind > regional competitors China, Thailand and Vietnam — the three countries who > previously had the most fishing boats operating around Indonesia’s shores. > > “Susi still wants to promote increased yield at the same time she talks > about more sustainable fisheries,” says one fisheries expert. “Those are > two goals that are often incompatible, but increasing revenue per catch > through processing is certainly one way to bridge the two goals.” > > > > >
