Implementation of Self-Reliance Politics in Fishery Sector, Foreign Direct Investment, and Trawl Elimination: Dilemma Between Fulfilling Needs for Fish and Improving Fisherman Welfare

Sutejo K Widodo,I Indriyanto,B Warsito,Sudarno Sudarno,T Triadi Putranto

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202020202014

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the dilemma between the fulfillment of needs for fish and the improvement of fisherman welfare in Java, specifically in Pekalongan Municipality. It focuses on the dilemma occurring on the implementation of self-reliance politics policy in 1961, implementation of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) policy in the fishery sector in 1969, and implementation of trawl elimination in 1980. To reveal these problems, the researchers used historical method, based on the government policy contained in the decree, agency reports, and agency bulletins. The research results find a dilemma between an effort to fulfill the needs for fish by increasing the catch production and an effort to improve the fisherman welfare.

Highlights

This research discusses the implementation of self-reliance (Berdikari) policy of the fishery sector, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and trawl elimination, which has dilemma between fulfilling needs for fish and improving fishermen welfare
The conclusions of the problem in this research are: first, the concept of Fishery Self-Reliance policy which aims to meet their own needs and stop the imports, is more political in its implementation when dealing with the longstanding practice of Chinese ethnic business groups
The implementation of FDI policy in the fishery sector has succeeded in increasing the fish catch, but it forces the fishing business activities by local fishermen

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Introduction

This research discusses the implementation of self-reliance (Berdikari) policy of the fishery sector, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and trawl elimination, which has dilemma between fulfilling needs for fish and improving fishermen welfare. Java Island was surrounded by territorial waters, in the past in meeting the needs for fish, mainly sea fish, it was mostly done by bringing in the fish caught by fishermen from other regions or imported, in the form of salted fish and dried fish. This factor underlies the self-reliance policy, in which the fulfillment of the needs is gradually carried out in a self-sufficient manner with the establishment of self-reliance policy. This is an interesting topic and needs to be explored and found its root problem to be reconstructed in the span of 1961 to 1980

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