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Anies wants to make Ambon the capital of fisheries
Highlighting Maluku's tremendous potential for fisheries, presidential candidate Anies Baswedan plans to make it the capital of fisheries in Indonesia.
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A fisherman from Waprea village in Waplau district, Buru regency, Maluku, shows off his catch, a large yellowfin tuna. (Courtesy of MDPI/-)
Presidential candidate Anies Baswedan promised to make Ambon the capital of the fisheries industry during his campaign trip to Maluku.
"Ambon [and] Maluku have tremendous potential for fisheries. First, we want to make Ambon the capital of the fisheries industry in Indonesia," Anies said in Tual village, Salahutu district in Maluku, as reported by cnnindonesia.com.
"Ambon will be the 'supermarket' of Indonesia – this is the center of the fisheries trade. This is the center of the National Fisheries Barn [LIN]."
Anies vowed that he and his team would continue the plan to establish LIN, acknowledging that LIN was something the people of Maluku had been waiting years for through successive administrations.
The LIN program was first proposed in 2010 during Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s presidency and then restarted in 2016 under Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration but has yet to materialize.
The program aims to strengthen Maluku and North Maluku as Indonesia’s top fishery production centers.
Anies also promised he would empower small-scale fishermen who lived along the coastlines of Maluku's islands.
