JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto admitted that Indonesia's very strategic geographical position is often the target of foreign ships to take the wealth of marine resources.
He said that every night there are tens of thousands of foreign-flagged ships that illegally or illegally fish the wealth of Indonesia's marine resources.
This was conveyed by Prabowo in his inaugural speech at the 19th DPR RI Plenary Meeting of the V Session of the 2025-2026 Session regarding the presentation of the Macro Economic Framework (KEM) and the Fiscal Policy Elements (PPKF) of the 2027 State Budget at the DPR RI Building, Jakarta, Wednesday, May 20.
"Our geographical position is very strategic, tens of percent of world trade through our waters. Our land and water are very vast, every night tens of thousands of foreign-flagged ships take our wealth illegally, illegally," said Prabowo.
For this reason, Prabowo emphasized that his government would take firm steps to overcome this problem.
"We must uphold our sovereignty in our own seas," he said.
The reason is, said the Head of State, it is one of the keys to realizing the mandate in the 1945 Constitution.
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