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NDONESIA will be hosting the fifth Our Ocean Conference (OOC) on October 29 and 30 in Nusa Dua, Bali. At the event that takes “Our Ocean Our Legacy” as its theme, Indonesia became the first Asian country to run the annual conference. OOC was first held in Washington D.C., the United States of America, in 2014. The 2018 OOC is participated by multi-stakeholders, comprised of government officials, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, public figures, etc. At least six head of

states, 32 ministers and nearly 1,700 delegates have confirmed their attendance. By becoming the 2018 OOC host, Indonesia will have the opportunity to show the world its leadership potential concerning the maritime and fisheries issues. It is in line with the country’s maritime diplomacy that has been pushed forward by the government. The 2018 OOC will focus on six subject matters: sustainable fisheries, marine protected area, marine pollution, climate change, sustainable blue economy, and maritime security. The Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Susi Pud-

jiastuti said that the sustainable blue economy issue will be discussed since it will help achieve sustainable fisheries. Pudjiastuti said it’s crucial to protect maritime resources to ensure food security for the people. Besides resource protection, maritime security is another issue that needs to be explored at the meeting. In the future, she said, countries will go to war not only because of political, ideological or religious reasons but due to food and water resources. “At this forum, Indonesia will share its mission and audacity in reforming the fisheries sector

through sustainable management. It worked, it was able to reverse the deficit in the fisheries trade balance. From being at the bottom, Indonesia has become number one in Southeast Asia in the past four years,” she said.

Reminding everyone’s commitment

The 2018 OOC aims to increase collaboration and partnership between marine stakeholders, resulting in concrete commitments that can be followed up in order to encourage global efforts in achieving ocean’s health and safety. The four previous OOC meet-

ings have produced at least 663 initiatives worth US$18 billion and 12.4 million square kilometers of marine protected areas. The OOC has also shown stronger commitment to safeguarding oceans as well as integrated actions in marine conservation. “We will remind the commitments that were previously declared by all countries, and ask those who haven’t done it to do the same. All of this is aimed to ensure that our sea is healthy and that it will stay the same for our children and the next gene­ ration,” Pudjiastuti said. Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi also echoed

the same message. It will be easier to find the best solution for a healthier and more sustainable ocean, with world’s leaders--including the head of states, ministers, international organizations, academics and public figures, sitting together in the 2018 OOC. “No matter who you are, wherever you live, the sea is an important part of life. Therefore, we must protect it together,” she said. The 2018 OOC will have various activities including plenary meetings, exhibitions, and Youth Leadership Summit. The participants will also hold side events to showcase leadership and

garner more support or commitments, such as the planned High-Level Meeting on Coral Reef by the ICRI Secretariat. The conference will also invite young investors to participate in various discussions to evoke new ideas and to get the younger generation to love and lead in maritime affairs. At the 2018 OOC, Indonesia is expected to witness a newly drawn commitment for sustainable ecological and economic development, to protect and nourish the oceans--that would ultimately affect the health of marine resources, tourism, fishers, coastal communities, and the entire nation. (S1-25)

Concrete Actions for Ocean Rights INDONESIA is aiming to be at the forefront when it comes to upholding ocean rights in order to preserve the water ecosystem that covers two-thirds of the earth. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries is working to provide ocean health and safety for the people of Indonesia, adhering to maritime sovereignty, ocean sustainability, and prosperity. Those who violate them, such as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing--also known as IUUF, will be severely punished. Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Susi Pudjiastuti said that IUUF activities have contributed to the econo­ mic, social, and environmental dama­ges. ”We have sunk 488 illegal fishing vessels that were operating on our waters, and revoked 291 fishing licenses owned by IUUF perpetrators. We have also strictly banned foreign fishing vessels from operating on our waters to provide more opportunities for Indonesian fishers to benefit from our diverse marine resources,” said Pudjiastuti. The high seas cover approxi-

mately 64 percent of the world’s ocean (Pew Charitable Trusts, 2016) and three-fourths of the deep sea fish population are in poor condition (New York University/NYU, 2017). One of the contributing factors is transshipment--transfer of cargo from one vessel to another in the middle of the sea, that undermines maritime security and enables IUUF as well as other crimes. For that reason, Pudjiastuti called for the prohibition of transshipment. Port state measures could not be optimally implemented if transshipment is still being tolerated and not closely monitored. The global community has to protect the ocean because a healthy ocean does not only benefit one country, but all of them. Meanwhile Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi added that Indonesia has put out efforts to be at the forefront of maritime diplomacy, long before it was appointed as host of Our Ocean Conference 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, October 29 to 30, 2018. The country was the initiator for Indian Ocean Rim Asso-

ciation high-level conference in 2016, Marsudi said. Aside from that, together with the Small Island Developing States or SIDS, Indonesia has also encouraged for the enforcement of ocean rights. On the diplomatic side, Marsudi continued, when Indonesia talks about marine issues, it is not for the interest of other countries, but rather its own, which also happens to be of international interest. Moreover, Retno added, as a G20 member, Indonesia is obliged to make a real contribution to the world. “Indonesia has a strong diplomatic track record for humanity. During peace talks, Indonesia’s name will come up. Now we would also like to invest in ocean diplomacy, and organizing OOC is one of Indonesia’s concrete actions to showcase our legacy, our concerns on ocean issues or ocean-related issues,” Marsudi said.

Working together

Pudjiastuti’s ministry has also carried out multilateral and bilateral cooperations to curb maritime crimes.

One of them is the cooperation with the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in March last year, where both parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Marine and Fisheries Cooperation. A Joint Communique on Voluntary International Coope­ ration to Combat IUUF and to Promote Sustainable Fisheries Governance was also being signed on that occasion. According to Pudjiastuti, Indonesia and Sri Lanka have a lot of cooperation potentials such as IUUF and fisheries crime eradication, small-scale fisheries business development, sustainable aquaculture implementation, marine protected area development as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts towards maritime and fisheries trade and investments. Cooperation in enforcing ocean rights is not only being done at the state level. Indonesia’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries also collabo­

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rates with international nongovernmental organizations such as the US-based Ocean Observancy. The organization, based in Washington DC, has more than 30 years experience of handling marine waste through international coastal clean-ups, or ICC. Last month, together with Ocean Observancy, the Ministry and Bali provincial government organized an ICC event with a particular focus on plastic waste. It is commonly known that plastic waste does not only

affect the health of aquatic wildlife, but humans’ as well. It can even adversely damage the local economy. Aquatic species that unknowingly consume microplastics can get contaminated and die. Plastic waste also tend to attract and pull other sea pollutants together, making it even more dangerous. As many as 1,287 volunteers participated on September’s ICC event in Bali. Together, the people collected as many as 841.5 kilograms of waste.

They were then recorded by the Ocean Conservancy Sea Waste Index, the largest marine waste database in the world. ”(The Ministry) welcomes cooperation that can bring various stakeholders to participate in activities that can bring real and direct impact on our coastal and marine environment, through the Love the Sea movement, or Gita Laut,” said the Ministry’s Director General of Marine Spatial Management Brahmantya Satyamurti Poerwadi. (Gnr/ S4-25)

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