Reducing On-Farm Food Losses
In the OIC Member Countries
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3.8.4. Measures and Strategies Implemented for On-Farm Loss Reduction in
Indonesia
The Indonesian government described and explained its ambition and strategy with regard to
the seafood sector in its industrialization policy. The government states that marine and
fisheries industrialization is a process to enhance production systems to increase value adding
capacity, productivity and the scale of production of fisheries products through modernization.
This is supported by an integrated policy between macroeconomic development, infrastructure
development, business and investment climate, knowledge, technology and human resources
for community welfare.
Indonesia's main fishery authority is the MMAF. It is responsible for marine and fishery sector
planning, management and administration in Indonesia. The Ministry comprises six line offices
consisting of an Agency for Marine Affairs and Fisheries and five Directorate Generals covering
Aquaculture, Capture Fisheries, Coastal and Small Islands, Marine and Fisheries Resource
Controls and Processing and Marketing. These five directorates cover all aspects of the seafood
industry from resource management, to development support, to information dissemination, to
the implementation of regulations to the support of international marketing activities. MMAF
has a large research agency which conducts research in all areas of the seafood industry (the
Marine and Fisheries Research Agency). MMAF has a Marine and Fisheries Human Resource
Development Agency that provides training for the fisheries, aquaculture and processing sector.
Both agencies are under the direct authority of MMAF.
The government is currently developing policies to boost exports of tilapia. Due to the favorable
climate in Indonesia, tilapia can be produced all year round and thus compete with tilapia from
China that is only produced during the hot season. Food safety certification for exports with be
required, depending upon the buyer country. For pangasius, CBI (2012) recommends that
Indonesian producers would be better focusing on the domestic market rather than facing
competition with Vietnamese pangasius.
The Aquaculture and Fisheries group of Wageningen University is planning to launch a
programme to increase productivity in Indonesian shrimp farms for the Dutch Partners for
Water Programme. At the time of this report, the baseline study in Demak district was complete,
and future plans involved a kick-off for further research in three districts of Java in the first week
of March 2016.
Rabobank Foundation works with Black Tiger producers in Aceh while Oxfam, the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Mangrove alliance work with Black Tiger
producers in Kalimantan, Makassar and East Java. Both donors work especially with Black Tiger
producers and try to enhance their productivity, competitiveness and try to prepare them for
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification.