Results Of Luhut's Initial Meeting With The KKP: Nothing Wrong With Exporting Lobster Seeds

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Instagram @ luhut, pandjaitan)

JAKARTA - The Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ad Interim General TNI (Ret.) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan held an inaugural meeting with echelon I ranks of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP). One of the main points in the meeting was related to the export of lobster clear seeds (BBL).

Luhut said there was nothing wrong with the provisions in the Ministerial Decree No. 12/2020 regarding the export of lobster seeds.

"So we have checked earlier. Earlier I asked the Secretary General, Mr. Lambok (Special Staff for the Legal Affairs of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Lambok Nahattands) all of this was enjoyed by the people regarding this program. There is nothing wrong," he said when met at the KKP Office, Jakarta. , Friday, November 27th.

However, Luhut said, his party was still investigating whether there was anything wrong with the implementation of the lobster seed export mechanism.

"So, if there is a wrong mechanism, we are evaluating it and now it will be stopped for some time and after we evaluate it, we will continue if it can be continued," he said.

As is known, yesterday, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) decided to temporarily suspend the issuance of a Letter of Determination of the Release Time (SPWP) for the export of clear lobster seeds (BBL). Along with the arrest of KKP Minister Edhy Prabowo.

The decision to temporarily suspend the issuance of SPWP is based on Circular Letter Number B. 22891 / DJPT / PI.130 / XI / 2020 signed by Plt. KKP Capture Fisheries Director General Muhammad Zaini, Thursday 26 November.

KKP Secretary General, Antam Novambar said the temporary suspension will take effect from Thursday, November 26, until an undetermined time.

In the SE KKP, it explains the reasons for termination in order to improve the management of clear lobster seeds as regulated in the Regulation of the KP Number 12 of 2020 concerning the Management of Lobster (Panulirus spp.), Crab (Scylla spp.), And Crab (Portunus spp.) In the Management Area Fisheries of the Republic of Indonesia.

Apart from that, said Antam, it is also in the context of considering the process of revising the Government Regulation on Non-Tax State Revenue (PNBP) within the KKP.

"The circular is issued today and is valid until an undetermined time limit," he said, in a written statement received by VOI, Thursday, November 26.

KKP, said Antam, provides an opportunity for exporting companies that have BBL in their packing houses to immediately remove these commodities from Indonesia.

"No later than one day after the circular is published," he said.