KKP Calls The Progress Ofwasp Estate Expansion In NTT Entering The Feasibility Study Stage

Director General of Strengthening Competitiveness for Products, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (PDSKP) KKP Budi Sulistyo. (Photo: Theresia Agatha/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) said that the plan to expand the large-scale shrimp farming program or cultivation scheme in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), has entered the current stage of feasibility study (FS).

"The progress is currently in the stage of a feasibility study or feasibility study," said Director General of Strengthening Product Competitiveness, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (PDSKP) of the KKP Budi Sulistyo to VOI after being met at the office of the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Jakarta, Monday, January 29.

Budi said that currently the expansion of the program is still continuing to process both technically and administratively.

"Yes, we are currently in the process. The process, right, must be technically and administratively. Friends cultivate movement there with all supervisory partners and so on. So, for accountability, they take care of it from the start," he said.

The plan is for the construction of the shrimp estate project to be carried out on an area of 2,000 hectares (ha).

"In Sumba, the area is 2,000 ha," he said.

According to Budi, later his party will invite a number of environmental observers to discuss the program. "Yes (later we will invite)," he added.

Previously reported, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) plans to develop a large-scale shrimp farming program or cultivation scheme in Indonesia in 2024.

The KKP plans to develop a shrimp estate in the Waingapu area, Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

Spokesperson for the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Wahyu Muryadi said the KKP would use the local government's unproductive land (Pemda).

"That's right (shrimp estate was developed) in Waingapu, East Sumba, NTT. Using unproductive land there," Wahyu told VOI, Thursday, January 25.

Wahyu said that the KKP would start developing the shrimp estate work in October.

"The project value is around Rp. 7 trillion. It is hoped that before October 2024 the process of construction can begin," he said.

According to Wahyu, the development of shrimp estate in the area will not interfere with the mangrove ecosystem.

This is because the land to be used does not have mangrove forests.