"I hope that ITB would pioneer the production of graduates who have maritime entrepreneurship in order to help develop and utilize the country`s maritime resources."Bandung, West Java (ANTARA News) - Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad encouraged the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to produce graduates with maritime entrepreneurship skills.
"I hope that ITB would pioneer the production of graduates who have maritime entrepreneurship in order to help develop and utilize the country`s maritime resources," the minister said here on Wednesday.
In his public lecture at the ITB, the minister said he had met with ITB Rector Prof Akhmaloka and discussed idea of to produce maritime entrepreneurship.
He said that in order to achieve the goal, three programs had to be done. "We have asked the rector to prepare three programs to support the maritime entrepreneurship," the minister said.
He said that the first program was to produce the country`s fish culture concept. The second program is the salt management with maritime technique, and the third one is to produce S2 graduates majoring in fisheries who are ready to be fielded.
The minister said that the the three special programs for producing entrepreneurship in the maritime sector was expected to start this year.
"We are planning to start it this year," the minister said adding that to achieve this program his ministry has prepared a budget of Rp460 billion.
In the meantime ITB Rector Akhmaloka hailed the minister`s idea to produce graduates with maritime entrepreneurship development skill.
"If 30 percent of ITB graduates have the maritime entrepreneurship skill, the vast maritime potentials of Indonesia could be further developed," he said.
(Uu.A014/HAJM)
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