Abstract
Indonesia is an archipelago country with thousand-pretty blessed islands with large hinterland surround. Regarding the fact, many of Indonesian believes that their ancestor is seafarer. Many Indonesian live from sea. They live from everything provided by the wealth of the seas. Fortunately, the government realizes this fact and they believe that maritime potential of country could be explored well for the sake of people’s wealth and welfare. This is done by their commitment to growing up and securing maritime higher education by following the international standard of IMO which is called as STCW 2010 Manila amendment. Data was stated that in this recent year, the world needs more than 69.241 qualified seafarers for each five years later. As the consequences, English is an obligatory to achieve. Maritime English which is more specific in the English subject would be an essential knowledge as well as skill in line with the issues. In the global maritime world, this competence should be effectively mastered by each seafarer as broad opportunity of qualified seafarers is always open for both national and international shipping companies. In this study, the writer obtain the knowledge and the data to support the paper by interviewing and sharing questionnaires to the senior seafarers who have excellent experiences at sea and in land who already signed off board from their sea projects. The results show that Maritime English teaching is absolutely needed because global maritime job opportunities in the recent year and in the future are engaging.
Highlights
Maritime sector is nowadays declared as a very potential issue in Indonesia in term of economic and welfare development for its people
Indonesian government through Directorate General of Sea Transportation as the IMO administration decides the policy for maritime education and training to conduct successful teaching and learning process. 3.2 Integrating Maritime Topic in Maritime English Teaching
Indonesian government through Directorate General of Sea Transportation as IMO administration in Indonesia has their authority to manage all Indonesian maritime higher education and training to conduct their training program based on the IMO regulation
Summary
Maritime sector is nowadays declared as a very potential issue in Indonesia in term of economic and welfare development for its people. Maritime education is strongly conducted to supply qualified candidates of seafarer and human resources who are proficiently mastered any kind of maritime affairs. In line with this fact, Indonesian government follows the regulation of International Maritime Organization through earlier adoption of the international Convention on Standard of Training Certification and Watch keeping for seafarers (STCW) 1978 amended as STCW Manila 2010. IMO has developed the current series of model courses in response to these generally identified needs and oblige that Maritime English courses in such maritime higher education will be fundamental to be held to produce qualified seafarers or mariners. To meet the competencies of the seafarer candidates especially in term of the use of English both as their internal and external communication language as well as to meet the need of the maritime world, Maritime English teaching is urgently required to be professionally implemented in maritime higher education
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