Abstract
The idea of President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, in developing the nation to be a global maritime axis by enhancing economy activities through inter-island connectivity, and upgrading port infrastructure within the Indonesian archipelago. It provides a variety of products with content high economic value such as the high potential of biotic natural resources for the marine industry, mining, tourism, energy, and transportation. Sustainable Human Capital Development becomes powerful enabler in optimizing marine industry also the resources. With the population approximately 250 million is able to offer human capital development to translate the idea into a sizeable market needs to support the development various sectors of the marine industries. This study used descriptive and quantitative analysis by collecting related secondary data which selected accordingly. This paper discusses the Sustainable Human Capital Development which considered potentially optimize the marine industry over the country. Due to a lot of obstacles in terms of shortage qualified human resources in maritime affairs, proposed strategy for human capital development especially for the purpose of this study becomes recommendation from the researcher to be the government priority to utilize the available great resources inside the country that can impact towards growth and development economy of the nation in the future. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s5p129
Highlights
Introduction and BackgroundIndonesian economy will be affected even directly or indirectly with enforced by ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) that gradually in the scope of the ASEAN countries since 2003
There is no calculation of the economic potential of marine tourism, but if we compare with the state of Queensland in Australia with a long coastline of about 9,800 miles, but only able to generate foreign exchange nautical tourism Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). 24 trillion per year
If we pay attention to human capital in Asia where Indonesia is still very underdeveloped, it is evident from the table that served the OECD (2013) and as follows: Table 1
Summary
Indonesian economy will be affected even directly or indirectly with enforced by ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) that gradually in the scope of the ASEAN countries since 2003. The free trade will soon come into force and will take place entirely. Start from this year free trade throughout the Asia Pacific region will be implemented. There are a lot people in this country can employed and involved in maritime activities and economy because this industry consists of many activities in the field of economy as defined by Dervojeda, K. et al (2012) maritime industries include all enterprises engaged in the business of designing, constructing, manufacturing, acquiring, operating, supplying, repairing and/or maintaining vessels, or component parts thereof: of managing and/or operating shipping lines, and customs brokerage services, shipyards, dry docks, marine railways, marine repair shops, shipping and freight forwarding services and similar enterprises
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