The BSC fisheries extend over much of Indonesia’s coastline and government capacity to enforce the new regulations is limited. APRI and SFP (Sustainbale Fisheries Partnership) are conducting control document trial in Madura, Gresik, Betahwalang, Kudus, and Kendari (Pamandati) from 10 – 14 April 2015. This is also following the Indonesian government new regulations: Permen No.1/2015 on the minimum landing size of blue swimming crab and banning landing berried females, and Permen No.2/2015 on banning mini-trawl gear. Until now, the government and other key stakeholders are addressing the compliance of these regulations.
APRI (Dr Hawis Madduppa, Bambang Nugraha) and SFP (Jim Cannon, Purbasari, Juan, Dessy Anggraeni, Christo Hutabarat) have visited landing sites, cooking stations, mini plants, and plant processings. For this trials, PT KML (Kelola Mina Laut) and PT MBI (Muria Bahari Indonesia), as APRI members, are participating actively as processing plant site visit. The control-document specifies that not only does a particular shipment/product bought need to be legal, it further requires that the entire product the supplier handles, for all customers, is legal also. The supply chain, through control documents, has the power to significantly assist Indonesia, by excluding illegal actors from the legal supply chain. The control document has been developing since January 2015 by APRI, NFI Crab Council, and SFP.
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