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Govt doubles non-tax revenue target for fishery sector
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The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry’s acting director general of fishing, Zulficar Mochtar answers questions at a press conference at the ministry in Jakarta on Thursday. (JP/Anton Hermansyah)
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he Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry has raised the non-tax revenue (PNBP) target for the fishery sector this year to Rp 950 billion (US$71.05 million), 2.79 times higher than that of in 2016 at Rp 340 billion.
The ministry’s acting director general of fishing Zulficar Mochtar said the target would be supported by the integrated online regional ship licensing system (Simkada) that had been implemented since mid-2016. The ministry would also increase levies for several type of ships.
"We will increase levies for ship larger than 30 gross tonnage [GT] and there are some ships that have to be re-registered because of the mark-down practice. It will add some revenue," he said at the press conference in Jakarta on Thursday.
Major ship owners were found to be marking down the size of their ships in a bid to get lower levies. Seventy percent of 2,000 ships that the ministry had inspected in the latest operation were found to be marked down from their actual size.
Zulficar said there were around 630,000 registered ships in Indonesia, 89 percent of those had a capacity less than 10 GT. Meanwhile, around 8,900 units with the capacity of 30 GT and above were operational but only 3,600 of them were legally licensed.
"Our ship registration system was still unstable in 2015, so we saw sluggish revenue collection," he said, adding that the 2016 PNBP collection had exceeded the target, reaching Rp 360.86 billion. In 2015 the PNBP collection from the sector was only Rp 77.49 billion. (ags)
