Mention The Price Of Diesel At IDR 23,000 Per Liter, Commission IV Member Reminds Domino Effect: 2,000 Fishing Boats Don't Go To Sea, Stunting Rates Can Rise

Member of Commission IV DPR RI Andi Akmal Pasluddin. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - Member of Commission IV of the DPR RI Andi Akmal Pasluddin highlighted the high price of fuel, especially diesel, which reached Rp. 23,000 per liter. According to him, this condition will have a domino effect for the fishing community, which is getting worse and worse, so that the consumption of fishery products will fall, if left unchecked, it will affect economic growth more or less.

Akmal added, not only is the country's economic situation shaken due to the high price of fuel for fishermen, but it also affects the quality of human resources, which reduces protein consumption which, if prolonged, will threaten to increase the stunting rate in this country.

“I ask the government not only to comment on the increase in fuel prices for these fishermen, which has stalled more than 2,000 fishing boats and threatens to make millions of fishermen unemployed. There must be real action for the government to provide solutions such as 69 percent of fishermen who have difficulty buying subsidized diesel must be facilitated. Likewise, 78 percent of fishermen, especially small fishermen, who have difficulty obtaining recommendations for subsidized diesel must have convenience," Akmal said in his official statement, Wednesday, August 3.

Akmal revealed that he had received hundreds of aspirations from the people in his constituency, mostly coastal communities who work as fishermen, so that the high price of diesel fuel has a policy from the government for small fishermen to just make a living.

According to him, these small fishermen with boats of about 5 GT to 30 GT only take fish as needed. There is no exploitation of damaging the environment, but only to meet the needs of families and the surrounding community.

Akmal criticized the government's relatively slow action in any pro-people policies. So that when there are incidents such as the high number of strategic commodities such as fuel, they panic and have no solution.

He added that the government in the near future must provide a solution to save these small fishermen due to skyrocketing fuel prices.

“This very high fuel price hike has shaken our capture fisheries industry, from small fishermen to large fishing companies. The current aquaculture solution has not been able to match the provision of capture fisheries which is also a joint evaluation. Hopefully there will be a quick solution from the government, because the small people of the fishing community are now unemployed and cannot sail," Akmal concluded.