KKP And Australia Discuss Cooperation On Fishery Product Quality Guarantee Systems

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries opens opportunities for cooperation in the quality and safety guarantee system of fishery products (SJMKHP) with the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) Australia.

For information, the Head of the Marine and Fishery Product Quality Control and Supervision Agency (Badan Mutu KKP) Ishartini has held a bilateral meeting with the Secretary of the Deputy of Biosecurity Operations and Compliance DAFF Australia Justine Saunders, which discusses business processes, organizational duties and functions, as well as opportunities for cooperation in fishery commodity trade.

Ishartini conveyed that this collaboration has the potential to increase the volume of trade in Indonesian fishery products to the Kangaroo Country.

"Meetings with DAFF Australia are very productive and from Indonesia conveys the priority proposal to become point of bilateral cooperations including assistance in fulfilling the voluntary government accuracy mechanism, proposed dialogue redrafting mutual recognition arrangement (MRA), technical assistance in the preparation of superior post border control and recall procedures, joint inspection and sharing knowledge and technology in quality microbiology testing," explained Ishartini in an official broadcast, Sunday, July 13

Ishartini explained that cooperation with DAFF Australia is important in an effort to encourage the smoothness and speed of income of Indonesian fishery commodities to the Australian market, to ensure the stability of demand which will have an impact on supply chains in Indonesia because the Australian fisheries market is also in demand by competitors such as Thailand and Vietnam.

Ishartini explained that from the meeting, it had narrowed down on the things that would be followed up, namely the cooperation in the equivalence of the SJMKHP system which would encourage Indonesia's efforts to diversify commodities and export destination countries.

"Australia is a strategic market because geographically it is relatively close to us and demand for promising fishery products," he said.

Previously, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono emphasized that the formation of the KKP Quality Board as a quality assurance body in the fisheries sector was very important to oversee SJMKHP along the supply chain for both the interests of the Indonesian people and consumers globally for healthy, nutritious and quality food needs.