This also demonstrates that we are able to carry out food security programs and increase national shrimp production, which has so far become one of our main export commodities and the largest foreign exchange earner from the fishery sector,
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has targeted Indonesia to become one of the top five fishery product exporters in the world.

He made his remarks while observing the development of supra intensive shrimp ponds, as a pilot project using oxybam technology in Kampung Bahari Nusantara in Jembrana district, Bali, on Friday.

The shrimp ponds, invented by Indonesians, have been developed through the collaboration with the Indonesian Navy, the Jembrana district government and private parties.

"This also demonstrates that we are able to carry out food security programs and increase national shrimp production, which has so far become one of our main export commodities and the largest foreign exchange earner from the fishery sector," he said on his @luhut.pandjaitan instagram account, monitored in Jakarta on Friday.

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Pandjaitan said he hoped the program will continue to enable the country to achieve the production target of 2 million tons of shrimp, worth US$4.3 billion, in 2024.

"I sincerely hope that the program will continue so that it will give great benefit, not only to the technological innovations, but also to the empowerment of coastal communities and the development of regional economy," he said.

Pandjaitan noted that the fishery sector is one of the growing sectors, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, the fishery sector grew 5.45 percent, compared to 2020.


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He further asked the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry to develop the fishery sector as optimally as possible to generate foreign exchange earnings, create jobs and become a source of foods for the community and processing industry.

"That way Indonesia will be able to make it to among the top five fishery product exporters in the world," Pandjaitan said.


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Translator: Ade Irma Junida, Suharto
Editor: Fardah Assegaf
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