Ratification Of The KSDAHE Law Strengthens The Role Of KKP Managing Water Conservation

KKP Secretary General Rudy Heriyanto Adi Nugroho. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) stated that the ratification of the Law on Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems (KSDAHE) is able to increase the effectiveness of managing conservation areas, including protection of various species in the waters.

KKP Secretary General Rudy Heriyanto Adi Nugroho said, with the ratification of the revision of Law Number 5 of 1990, the authority to manage and determine conservation areas in waters, coastal areas, and small islands is now fully implemented by the KKP.

The affirmation in the KSDAHE Law strengthens the basis of the KKP's duties and responsibilities in implementing the KKP priority program, namely the blue economy for the expansion of conservation areas and effective management.

"There are several strengthening of the responsibility of the KKP whose aim is for the effectiveness of the management of conservation areas and their natural resources. We at the KKP are ready to carry out as mandated by the law," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, July 17.

In addition to the management and determination of conservation areas, he continued, the KSDAHE Law also mandates that certain wild plant and animal conservation activities in marine waters located in natural asylum areas and nature conservation areas are carried out in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations in the marine and fisheries sectors.

Including, the conservation management of fish species and other marine biota is carried out by the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries.

This also emphasizes the role of the KKP in the conservation of fish species as regulated in the laws and regulations in the field of fisheries.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Legal Bureau of the KKP, Effen Martiana, added that the procedures for determining and managing conservation areas in waters, coastal areas, and small islands as well as the conservation of certain wild plants and animals in the waters will be regulated in government regulations.

His party together with other ministries of institutions are preparing points for the derivative regulations in question.

"Details in the management of conservation areas and water biota will be regulated in government regulations. The most important thing is how regulations can protect conservation areas and water biota properly and use them in a wise way to be sustainable and sustainable," he said.

On July 9, the Indonesian House of Representatives passed the KSDAHE Bill into law. One of the changes is the abolition of Chapter 10 concerning the Submission of Assistance Affairs and Duties.

Article 38 paragraph 1 states that in the context of implementing conservation of biological natural resources and their ecosystems, the government can hand over some of the affairs in this field to local governments as referred to in Law Number 5 of 1974 concerning the Principles of Government in the Regions.