Indonesia enlists university for fisheries research and coastal planning
The partnership will help assess potential sites for the 2027 Red and White Fishing Village programme and support measured fishing.
Indonesia’s fisheries ministry is joining forces with Raja Ali Haji Maritime University (UMRAH) to strengthen research underpinning fishing policy and plans for coastal communities. The work includes gathering data and assessing candidate locations for a fishing village programme in the 2027 budget year.
Speaking in Tanjungpinang, Lotharia Latif, director general of capture fisheries at the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, said the collaboration would support measured fishing. He described accurate and accountable data as essential to the policy’s aim of managing marine resources sustainably.
Latif said decisions about where to establish the Red and White Fishing Village programme must reflect the needs and characteristics of coastal communities. He also expressed expectations that government-university cooperation would strengthen fisheries governance and bring public benefits.
Dony Apdillah, dean of UMRAH’s Faculty of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, said the arrangement offered a way to apply university research to policymaking. He said UMRAH could contribute capture-fisheries management expertise and help design programmes suited to coastal communities.
