ID FOOD Supports Blue Natural Capital through Blue Food Fisheries

President Director of Food Holding lD FOOD, Frans Marganda Tambunan. (Photo: Doc. ID FOOD)

JAKARTA - Momentum Ocean20 (020), Food Holding ID FOOD supports the Blue Natural Capital (BNC) program initiated by the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Kemenko Marves) through the fisheries sector managed by ID FOOD Group.

This support is in addition to fishery infrastructure through the fisherman supply chain ecosystem in several managed operational areas, ID FOOD will explore opportunities for empowering marine resources as a fishery commodity development.

This is part of the support for BNC, which is an asset to be used as consumption material as well as to support the economy.

"One of BNC's contributions is the use of seaweed, in addition to optimizing the use of marine resources in the form of fisherman production", said Frans Marganda Tambunan, President Director of LD FOOD Food Holdings, quoted on Wednesday, November 16.

Frans said ID Food food holding is committed to contributing to developing a blue economy and blue food through the fisheries sector business line.

"The role of ID FOOD at O20, in addition to empowering fishing partners to increase marine product production in order to maintain fishery supply, as well as use other marine resources for processing and food availability", said Frans.

Frans sees this as part of a collaborative synergy with the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to contribute to realizing O20 as an act of conservation and sustainable use of marine and maritime resources.

"In fact, ID FOOD Group's export cooperation potential to G20 member countries comes from the utilization of Indonesian fishermen's production resources, such as octopus steam, whole cleaned cuttlefish, ball type octopus, tuna loin to the United States and Japan, and is expected to attract fisheries interest and potential. to other G20 members", concluded Frans.

Meanwhile, President Director of PT Perikanan Indonesia Sigit Muhartono said his party always prioritizes sustainable fisheries ecosystems in managing their business.

As a subsidiary of ID FOOD in the fisheries sector, PT Perindo develops fishery blue food retail caught by Indonesian fishermen for consumption by the Indonesian people.

"In addition, PT Perindo also supplies fish consumption for overseas communities with export reach to 9 countries", he said.