The main consequences of continued illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing within Indonesian waters for maritime security actors and coastal communities

Deby Indah Lestari,Arfian R Putra,Amanda Yofani Larasuci

doi:10.33448/rsd-v9i1.1566

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https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i1.1566

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Abstract

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing is known as a global serious threat and become International major issues. Indonesia, as one of the biggest archipelago countries and Mega Biodiversity that has rich, various, and potential marine resources has succeeded in attracting domestic fisheries and foreign fisheries to commit Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU Fishing) practices. This research aims to understand the phenomenon of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Indonesia and to understand the consequences of IUU Fishing practices to the coastal community and the maritime security state actors. This research finds that IUU Fishing practices have significant and negative impact towards Coastal communities on Economic, Environmental, and Social aspect. Furthermore, IUU Fishing practices has also significant and negative impact on the integrity of Maritime Security State Actors in protecting Indonesian waters.

Highlights

Indonesia is one of the biggest archipelago countries with 17.504 islands that possess wide waters territorial. 75 percent of the total of Indonesian territory is sea waters
This paper aims to explain the phenomenon of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Indonesia and to explain about the impacts and consequences of IUU Fishing practices to the coastal community and the maritime security state actors
As it has been known that Indonesia holds a rather huge amount of potential oceanic resources, it can be said that the “richness” of Indonesian oceanic resources can be very tempting when seen by other countries

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Introduction

Indonesia is one of the biggest archipelago countries with 17.504 islands that possess wide waters territorial. 75 percent of the total of Indonesian territory is sea waters. The potentials of Indonesian marine waters has succeeded in attracting traditional or domestic fisheries and foreign fisheries with their small boat or even big vessels to do an illegal activity called Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (IUU Fishing). The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) stated that Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing refers to activities that are conducted by national or foreign fishing vessels in maritime waters under the jurisdiction of the state without any permission from the state which have not been reported or misreported to the related national authorities in a way that is contradictory with the regulation established by the its RFMOs (Regional Fisheries Management Organizations) (Schmidt, 2004). This paper aims to explain the phenomenon of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Indonesia and to explain about the impacts and consequences of IUU Fishing practices to the coastal community and the maritime security state actors. Actions that have been taken by the Indonesian government against IUU Fishing within Indonesian waters in addressing the IUU Fishing issue will be explained in this paper

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