Maintain Marine Sustainability, KKP Emphasizes The Importance Of Data Permits And Digitization

Fishery illustration (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) emphasizes that granting permits and digitizing data is an important factor in managing and utilizing the sea. This is an effort by the KKP in managing and utilizing the sea wisely to provide inheritance to the next generation.

Secretary of the Directorate General of Marine Management and Space of the KKP Kusdiantoro said the challenge of marine management in Indonesia is increasing and has the potential to cause conflicts in the use of marine space and resources so that it can threaten marine health.

For this reason, he invites countries in the world to manage the sea wisely to give inheritance to the next generation.

"To avoid conflicts in the use of marine space and sea resources, the KKP has allocated conservation areas and the use of marine resources and environmental services in the sea space in a sustainable manner," he said, quoted from the KKP official website, Monday, November 20.

Kusdiantoro explained that saving marine ecology is a very important priority. One of them is realized through a marine space management plan that allocates a minimum of 30 percent for conservation and preservation areas for important ecosystems in the sea.

In addition, the use of environmental resources and services in the sea space is carried out through the granting of a sea space utilization permit by the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.

This basic licensing has a strong legal status because without the ownership of a permit in the use of marine space, all business activity licensing cannot be processed.

"In preparing for future spatial planning, Indonesia will integrate the use of Ocean Big Data and Ocean Account," said Kusdiantoro.

According to him, Ocean Account has proven to be an important tool, providing insight for policymakers on how to measure, manage, and improve marine resources more effectively.

KKP, said Kusdiantoro, has four (4) strategies in developing marine space management (Marine Spatial Planning/MSP) in the future. First, implementing digitalization from planning to control, Second, supporting better marine health management.

Third, support the implementation of the blue economy. Finally or fourth, reduce the conflict in the use of marine space through transparency and community participation.

To support this achievement, said Kusdiantoro, cooperation with various parties including other countries, such as training, workshops and sharing knowledge to improve human resource knowledge and capacity, cooperation in preparing marine space management, and cross-border cooperation in marine space management.

"In the G20, it has produced Bali Leaders' Declaration which contains 52 agreements and there are three important issues related to efforts to preserve the marine environment, namely the blue economy, blue carbon (blue carbon) and handling plastic waste at sea," he said.

Furthermore, Kusdiantoro also mentioned several challenges in building the marine and fisheries sector in Indonesia, such as the problem of marine waste pollution, poverty in coastal areas, climate change, and the practice of IUU fishing.

To answer these challenges, the KKP itself has five priority programs for marine and fisheries development based on the blue economy, namely expanding marine conservation areas with a target of expanding conservation areas of up to 30 percent of all Indonesian waters by 2045 (a total of 97.5 million ha), making measurable fishing based on quotas, and developing sustainable development of marine, coastal and land cultivation.

Then, supervision and control of coastal areas and small islands, as well as cleaning up plastic waste in the sea through the participation movement of fishing communities or the Sea Love Moon.

As the largest archipelagic country in the world, Indonesia is certainly committed to managing small islands in a sustainable manner with blue economy principles, through the use of small islands in accordance with the typology and area of islands and island topography by paying attention to ecological, economic, social and cultural aspects.