Susi Pudjiastuti Threatens To Sink Fish Thief Ships In Today's Memory, October 25, 2018

Susi Pudjiastuti, who was Minister of KKP in the 2014-2019 era. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Today's memory, six years ago, October 25, 2018, the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), Susi Pudjiastuti warned illegal fishing perpetrators to be careful in dealing with her. Whoever violates, he threatens to sink her ship.

Previously, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) acknowledged Susi's achievements. This admiration made Jokowi give Susi's image as a minister who is fierce and aggressive. Jokowi praised Susi for drowning many fishing vessels.

Efforts to maximize the potential of marine and fishery wealth are Susi Pudjiastuti's main mission as Minister of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. He wanted the marine wealth to be maximized by the Indonesian people. In fact, the mission was not easy.

Indonesia's marine wealth has attracted the interest of many foreign fisheries entrepreneurs. They are attracted by the potential of Indonesian marine. Instead of processing permits for all kinds of things, they actually take the easiest option: illegal fishing. They entered the jidat into the Indonesian sea.

This condition makes many ships with foreign flags go back and forth in the Indonesian oceans. Indonesia's losses are quite large because its marine wealth continues to be carried. Local fishermen later became victims. Those who incidentally had to be prosperous by the state had difficulty finding fish.

This condition then changed in the era of the Susi Pudjiastuti government, he tried to end all kinds of illegal fishing. He tried to find loopholes in the Law (UU) which legalized the firm action of foreign fishing vessels. Susi also found Law Number 45 of 2009.

The legal product strictly regulates the sinking of fishing vessels that steal in Indonesian marine areas. Susi then stepped on the gas and asked for President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) blessing. Blessing was obtained. Susi's action to capture and sink foreign ships began.

Susi's actions did get pros and cons. However, Susi just considered the wind. The sinking of the ship continues to be carried out.

The Minister of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Susi Pudjiastuti, was 'warring' with a foreign ship robbing Indonesian fish. He even admitted that he was ready to direct his Susi Air plane to bomb the foreign ships one by one.

"In mid-December 2014, caught fishing vessels were burned and sunk and 'expelled' 1,928 Vietnamese fishermen from Indonesian waters. Maritime resource development still faces many problems and challenges in its development, for example the occurrence of curvature damage to coastal and marine ecosystems in the form of physical damage and pollution in several coastal and marine areas," explained Andi Iqbal Burhanuddin in the book Realizing the World Maritime Axis (2015).

Susi's refusal to sink foreign fishing thieves was appreciated by many parties. President Jokowi himself revealed that Susi as his minister who excels but has a fierce and aggressive aura on October 24, 2018. Jokowi joked that no one dared to protest to Susi for fear.

Gayung also greeted. Susi responded to Jokowi's praise. The praise was used as a threat to foreign fish entrepreneurs who wanted to steal fish illegally. Susi threatened they must be careful against him on October 25, 2018.

Susi made this statement through social media Twitter / X. Even though the tone played was seen joking, he saw the incident when Susi dared to sink the ship up to 300 threatening ships, it became real.

"Mr. President said I am Galak, Aggressive, so be careful, I will drown the same thing," said Susi via Twitter / X account @susipudjiastusi, October 25, 2018.