The Role of Fishermen in Assisting Maritime Law Enforcement Agencies to Prevent Maritime Security Threats

Abstract

<strong>Abstrac</strong>t – Indonesia’s sea is approximately 2/3 wider than the mainland, with very strategic geographical posisition located at the cross point of Indian and Pacific Oceans. This geographical posisition serves as strategic route for shipping, with every shipment from the west to east and the opposite will sail through the Indonesian sea. This can be both opportunity or challenge, depending on how Indonesia will manage it. If the State did not manage it well, it will increase the maritime security threats, such as IUU fishing, smuggling, and piracy. These threats may seriously disrupt the marine economics development, given the limited number of armaments and personnel of marine law enforcement agencies. Therefore, the capacity of fishermen in assisting marine law enforcement agencies to prevent the maritime security threat is inevitable. This study uses descriptive qualitative method. There are two types of data sources, primary and secondary data sources. Primary sources is obtained through interview with stakeholders and fishermen organization, while secondary data source is obtained by literature study. The role of fishermen in assisting maritime law enforcement agencies, in this case PSDKP KKP and Navy, to prevent maritime security threats is prescribed role or recommended role. The prescribed role is shown by the community group program established by PSDKP and Coastal Development in Rural area which is established by the Navy. With this program, the fishermen can supply informations about maritime security threats to PSDKP and the Navy so that they can act immediately to prevent these threats.<br /><strong>Keywords</strong>: Maritime Security Threats, Fishermen, Community Group Supervisor (Pokmaswas), Development Of Coastal In Rural Area (Bindesir)

Fishermen Empowerment Strategy as a Solution against Hybrid Threats in Indonesia

“…Building new social roles and relationships involving co-management factors that involve more than just institutional design, participatory democracy, and capacity building. In empowering fishermen and fishing communities, local fishermen can act as the "Sovereign Fishermen Patrol Team" marine security agents who will coordinate with BAKAMLA and the Indonesian Navy to protect Indonesia's maritime borders and achieve national interests [11] .…”

“…In reporting, simplification is carried out by opening interactive spaces and clear procedures for fishermen by the TNI using the 3A system, namely; Complaints (Aduan), where fishermen report indications of security threats to the government through an application that is integrated with the central government; Advocacy, is the stage where the central government receives complaints reports by providing feedback in the form of coordination with local governments; Action, where the stage of the deployment of an operational team consisting of the government's leading sector and local fishermen. This can be started by forming a special unit from the leading sector or related ministries, which will later create a technology-based system that can be controlled and integrated with the central government of Jakarta [11] .…”