Anticipate Global Recession 2023, KKP Will Export 500 Tons Of Fish To Saudi Arabia

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has a strategy to anticipate the threat of a global recession in 2023. One of them is by exporting fish to the Middle East region.

Marketing Director of the Directorate General of Strengthening the Competitiveness of Marine and Fishery Products (PDSPKP) KKP Erwin Dwiyana explained that the first step that the KKP will take is to export 500 tons of fish to fulfill the consumption of Indonesian Hajj pilgrims.

"The entrance started in Saudi Arabia with a captive market. There, right, there are about 200 thousand worshipers and need to eat from Medina to Mecca," Erwin said at the Bincang Bahari event on the Marine and Fisheries Sector Map in the Middle of the Recession Threat monitored online, Tuesday, February 21.

Erwin said that his party had collaborated with business actors and agreed to encourage the export of several types of fish to fulfill the consumption of Indonesian pilgrims.

The fish to be exported include patin, milkfish, canned tuna, kaci-kaci fish, and milkfish or marine catfish. "This is what we are preparing to fulfill the hajj," he said.

Related to this, said Erwin, his party is currently processing registration with the Saudi Arabian authorities. He estimates that Indonesia's fish exports to Saudi Arabia will not stop to fulfill the consumption of hajj pilgrims, but this step will be the beginning of the expansion of Indonesian fish exports throughout the Middle East region.

It is known that the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan also encouraged the Indonesian marine and fisheries sector to become the top five world exports.

According to Luhut, Indonesia's marine and fishery resources have the potential to contribute 6-7 percent of gross domestic income (GDP).

Luhut aggressively netted in the marine and fisheries sector. This is considered to be able to affect the achievement of the blue economy and the government's target of realizing sustainable development goals.