Commission IV Of The DPR Asks KKP Not To Be Late In Issuing Certificates Even Though There Is A Transfer To The Quarantine Agency

Chairman of Commission IV DPR RI Sudin. Photo: Capture Screen/Theresia Agatha

Chairman of Commission IV of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Sudin, asked the Head of the Marine and Fishery Product Quality Supervision and Control Agency (BPPMHKP) of the KKP Ishartini not to be late in issuing an export quality certificate of marine and fishery products.

It is known that the KKP is currently in the process of transitioning assets to the Indonesian Quarantine Agency regarding fish quarantine.

This was conveyed by the Sub-Department at the Hearing Meeting (RDP) for the Direction and Governance Policy of the Marine and Fishery Products Control and Supervision Agency of the Indonesian House of Representatives Commission IV at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Thursday, June 27.

"To the mother (Ishartini) who is from the KKP, I ask not because this examination will be hampered by issuing a certificate," he said.

The Sub-Department also requested that the KKP continue to coordinate with the Indonesian Quarantine Agency regarding the issuance of export certificates for fishery and marine products in the future.

"So what? Don't blame each other later. What's sorry is the entrepreneur," he said.

According to him, the export activities of marine and fishery products will produce a fairly large foreign exchange.

Thus, the issuance of export certification is expected not to encounter significant obstacles in the middle of the process of transitioning fishery quarantine tasks from the KKP to the Indonesian Quarantine Agency.

"Because if we export, right, it will produce a fairly large foreign exchange. If it's only domestic, right, it's not much," said the Sub-Department.

Moreover, said the Sub-Department, shrimp commodity exports are still Indonesia's mainstay.

Although, he continued, currently the condition of the Indonesian shrimp export is sluggish due to the weakening of the rupiah exchange rate against the United States (US) dollar.

"Moreover, it's like shrimp. Our shrimp market is sluggish due to finance as well. Our largest export shrimp is probably to America and this, right, is falling," he said.

Then, he continued, the price of the stall in the East Lampung area is also decreasing at this time.

"In East Lampung, there is a very large payment processing factory. In fact, that's all if I value it sometimes, I feel sorry for the fishermen. The price is very cheap, it doesn't match the costs incurred to go to sea," he added.