KKP: Red And White Fisherman's Village Proposal Application Time Extended Until June 3, 2025

KKP (Photo: dock. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has extended the deadline for submitting a proposal for the Red and White Fisherman Village Program (KNMP) until June 3.

This step was taken in line with the increasing enthusiasm of local governments and the marine community of fisheries from various regions in Indonesia.

Expert Staff to the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries for Economic, Social and Cultural Affairs Trian Yunanda said, as of Tuesday afternoon, May 27, 214 proposals had been submitted to the KNMP Proposal Revenue Dashboard.

"The extension of time does not only provide opportunities for registrants to complete supporting documents, (but) at the same time ensure that the selection process runs more inclusively and competitively, with equitable participation from all coastal areas and aquaculture in Indonesia," Trian said as quoted from his official statement, Wednesday, May 28.

It is known, the KNMP Program is a strengthening and continuation of the Modern Fisherman's Village Program and Aquaculture Village which previously succeeded in changing the image of fishing areas and cultivators from slums to productive and competitive.

This program is designed to increase productivity, welfare and spatial planning of fishing areas and cultivators through the construction of integrated and modern facilities, such as docks, frozen warehouses, ice factories, culinary centers, Fish Auction Places (TPI), training centers to viewing towers.

According to Trian, this program should abandon the old pattern that the government came to provide assistance and then just left.

"We want to build a sustainable ecosystem, where people are the main actors of development, not just beneficiaries," he said.

Later, Trian said, the KNMP Program will not only target coastal areas, but also cover communities of fishery cultivators in the interior.

In the future, he continued, added value will be given to locations that already have and are active in the Red and White Village Cooperative, as a form of support for the cooperative-based local economic model.

"The readiness and commitment of local governments is the main key to the success of this program. We want to ensure that the proposed location is really ready to be transformed sustainably," he added.