"The paradigm about the lack of manpowers welfare in the marine sector has made it less attractive to many of the college graduates who majored in fisheries," he stated here on Tuesday.
He remarked that based on the data collected by CORE during 2011-2014, only five percent of the college graduates majoring in fisheries worked for the marine sector while the remaining opted to work for the government, trade, and education sectors.
In light of this, Faisal explained that the labor force working in the fisheries sector was dominated by employees with an elementary school background.
"Some 60 percent of the labor force working in the marine and fisheries sector have low skills and education, and therefore, the next government should improve the human resources to enable them to manage this sector more professionally," Faisal noted.
According to him, the government is expected to provide the necessary human resources having formal education and the required training for the marine and fisheries sector in order to improve their skills and productivity in addition to improving their welfare.
"The improvement in their welfare is expected to change the incorrect paradigm about jobs in the marine and fisheries sector," Faisal remarked.
Earlier, President-elect Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, had planned to transform Indonesia into a maritime axis by utilizing its marine and fisheries resources for the nations welfare.
Faisal remarked that Jokowis idea of building Indonesia into a maritime axis has now become one of the next governments top priority programs.
(Uu.O001/INE/KR-BSR)
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