On National Fisherman's Day, Airlangga Hartarto: Hopefully Cash Assistance Becomes A Beautiful Gift

Airlangga Hartarto (DOK of the Golkar Party)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Golkar Party DPP Airlangga Hartarto wished you a happy National Fisherman's Day on Wednesday, April 6. Airlangga prayed for all fishermen in Indonesia to have an increasingly prosperous economy.

"Hopefully Indonesia's marine wealth will always be a blessing to fishermen and all the people. Prosperous Indonesian fishermen," said Airlangga in an electronic message received in Jakarta, Wednesday night.

The role of national fishermen is very large for the people of Indonesia. In particular, helping to meet the protein and nutritional needs of all people. This is what makes fishermen have a strategic position for the Indonesian government.

Moreover, continued Airlangga, Indonesia is an archipelagic country, most of which is in the form of oceans.

In addition to helping meet the nutritional needs of the Indonesian people, fishermen are also at the forefront of protecting Indonesia's marine sovereignty.

"The National Fisherman's Day has been commemorated since 1960," said Airlangga.

The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs admitted that the government pays attention to fishermen through efforts to encourage recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Airlangga, this year, the government has decided to expand the scope of the Cash Assistance Program for Street Vendors and Stalls (BT-PKL W) to target fishermen in Indonesia.

The Coordinating Minister for the Economy hopes that this policy will become a special gift for fishermen to be able to move the economy back into the community at the lowest level of society.

"Especially for fishermen, this is the first program in 2022 that aims to reduce extreme poverty in Indonesia," said Airlangga.

Airlangga emphasized that the number of cash assistance recipients from street vendors and fishermen was 2.76 million with each Rp 600 thousand. The recipients of street vendors and stalls are 1 million people.

"And as many as 1.76 million recipients came from fishermen in coastal areas from 212 districts and cities in Indonesia," said the Coordinating Minister for the Economy.

This assistance targets those who are marine and fishery business actors. Namely in the category of labor fishermen, fishing fishermen without ships, or fishermen who own ships less than 5 GT (gross tonnage).