The Ministry of Transportation empowers fishermen in Papua to optimize the sea highway

The Directorate General of Sea Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation through KSOP Class II Jayapura empowers and disseminates shipping safety to fishermen at the Old Port of Waiya Pier, Depapre District, Papua, as a strategy for optimizing the marine highway.

"The specific purpose of this activity is to empower and foster coastal communities and fishermen in Tanah Merah Bay, Depapre," said Head of Jayapura KSOP Class II Roni Fahmi in a statement in Jakarta, Wednesday.

The Head of Jayapura Class II KSOP Roni Fahmi together with the Head of the Jayapura Regency Marine and Fisheries Service, Rudi Abdiner Saragih, who was present representing the Jayapura Regent, carried out community empowerment activities in order to improve the quality of catches and sailing safety as well as professional shipping management.

According to him, this empowerment and coaching activity is very necessary because the skills and abilities in operating people's shipping vessels and fishing vessels must comply with safety standards and ship operating procedures at sea.

"The activities carried out in collaboration with the Jayapura Regency Government consist of socializing shipping safety for traditional fishermen, distributing safety equipment in the form of buoys and supervisory lights or fishing boat guides and measuring fishing boats under GT 7 for ship documents or small passes as ownership legalization. ship," he said.

Head of the Jayapura Regency Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Service, Rudi Abdiner Saragi, said that this activity was a real implementation of the development acceleration program in Jayapura Regency, which was a follow-up to the operation of the Depapre port.

This activity, he said, is very useful and can certainly increase the productivity of fishermen from the Ministry of Agriculture in achieving marine catches to support regional superior commodities, namely the marine and fisheries sector. This superior commodity can then become the cargo of the sea toll road and a pioneer in supporting the National Marine Highway Program.

"This sea highway program will serve as a liaison between the market and the 39 fishing groups that have been formed in Depapre," he said.

Uncen academics and also the Head of Strategic Papua Analysis from a professional Papuan research community, Laus Rumayom, appreciates this activity and continues to be supported by the provincial and district governments to synergize and support central government programs.

"In the future, data and the readiness of the Tanah Merah Bay fishermen are needed in increasing leading commodities in the marine and fisheries sector and even at the export level," said Laus Rumayom, who is also an expert at the 2021 Presidential Staff Office.

SOURCE: https://papua.antaranews.com/berita/682937/kemenhub-berdayakan-nelayan-di-papua-to-optimalkan-tol-laut