KKP Says 57 Fish Processing Units Can Now Export to China and Turkey

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JAKARTA - A total of 57 fish processing units (UPI) can now export fishery products to Turkey and China.

This was confirmed by the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) after reaching an agreement with the competent authorities of Turkey (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) and China (General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China/GACC) for the issuance of approval numbers to a total of 57 UPI units proposed by the KKP.

"With the issuance of the approval number, 57 fishing businesses can carry out export activities of fish and other fishery products to Turkey and China," said Head of the Marine and Fishery Product Quality Control and Supervision Agency (Badan Mutu KKP) Ishartini in an official statement in Jakarta, Saturday, February 21.

Ishartini explained that the proposal of a number of UPI by the KKP was not merely a submission of a list, but through technical verification and filling out a questionnaire required by the competent authorities of Turkey and China.

Thus, the proposed UPI has actually been certified HACCP and implements standards for sanitation, hygiene and food safety of fish.

He added, of the 56 UPI proposed by the Ministry of Forestry, 52 UPI have received approval numbers, while the rest are still in the verification process.

"Then for China, our proposal for five UPI was immediately approved, so a total of five UPI have received approval numbers from Chinese authorities," he said.

According to Ishartini, the proposal for approval number to Turkey is very important and urgent because the competent Turkish authorities will soon implement a new system for imports, namely the Approved Establishment System of the Republic of Türkiye or known as TROIS.

"Only companies that have been approved or given an approval number and are registered in the system can export fish and fishery products there," he said.

Referring to 2025 data, Turkey is one of the quite prospective markets for Indonesian fishery products. It is recorded that, to date, there are seven Indonesian fishery products that are exported to Turkey with a total volume of 2,600 tons, which total reaches Rp78.6 billion.

The seven fishery products include cakalang, tuna, carrageenan, sardines, octopus, octopus and seaweed processing.

The details of the list of 52 UPI names that have passed and received approval numbers by the competent Turkish authorities, including PT Nusantara Alam Bahari, PT Pahala Bahari Nusantara, PT Arta Mina Tama, PT Ocean Champ Seafood, PT Permata Marindo Jaya, PT Intimas Surya, PT Awindo and PT Red Ribbon Indonesia.

Then, as many as five UPI that received the GACC approval number, namely PT Jiabao Jituan Indonesia (South Kalimantan), PT Tobitama Makassar Indonesa (Makassar), PT Bahari Makmur Sejati (Serang-Banten), PT Seafood Food International (Batam) and PT Krispi Industri Indonesia (East Java).

It is known that currently there are 1,080 types of fishery commodities exported from Indonesia to China. As for the export performance to China throughout 2025, it reached around IDR 17.46 trillion with a total volume of 491,528 tons.

A total of 10 main fishery commodities, including Frozen Squid, Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed, Gracilaria Seaweed, Frozen Ribbon Fish, Eucheuma Cottonii, Dried Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed, Dried Gracilaria Seaweed, Eucheuma Spinosum, Frozen Leather Jacket Fish and Frozen Croaker Fish.