KKP Secures 920 Foreign Fishing Vessels With A Potential Loss Of IDR 13.6 Trillion Since 2020

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) continues to strive to eradicate illegal fishing vessels or Illegal Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF).

Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KP) Sakti Wahyu Trenggono claimed that he had saved the potential loss to the state of up to tens of trillions from illegal fishing vessels.

Based on KKP data, within 2020-2025, the total potential loss to the state that was saved from illegal fishing reached Rp13.6 trillion.

"From 2020 to 2025, more than Rp. 13 trillion, approximately the state loss (which was saved) from illegal fishing," Trenggono said in his remarks on the International Day for The Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing 2025 agenda at the KKP office, Thursday, June 5.

This number was achieved by the arrest of 920 illegal fishing vessels from 2020 to 2025, both those from foreign ships but also domestic ships.

Meanwhile, the Directorate General of Marine and Fishery Resources Supervision (PSDKP) of the KKP noted that 736 foreign ships and 184 domestic vessels have been arrested since 2020.

Especially for this year, the capture of ships carrying out the IUUF amounted to 47 ships with 34 domestic ships and 13 foreign vessels. Of that amount, the potential loss to the state that was saved reached Rp930 billion.

According to Trenggono, later the IUUF surveillance operation will not only be carried out continuously by PSDKP patrol boats. In the future, the use of technology will also be implemented so that the cost of supervision can be cheaper.

"We will use drone technology which will continue to rotate (patrol). The drone technology will then monitor and signal if there is a violation, then they (ships) will intercept. This is also to anticipate the operating costs mentioned as lacking," said Trenggono.