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66867
Sat, 06/20/2009 - 20:57
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INT`L COOPERATION NEEDED TO PROTECT TRADITIONAL FISHERMEN
Jakarta, June 20 (ANTARA) - The government needs to seek international cooperation to protect traditional fishermen who run aground in other countries due to uncontrollable natural factors at sea, a law expert said.
"The cooperation is also important to prevent theft of marine resources by foreign fishermen such as often happend in the waters of Aceh province," M Adli Abdullah of Banda Aceh-based Syiah Kuala Unviersity said here on Saturday.
Besides, such a cooperation on fishing in sea border areas would prevent the entry into the country of illegal migrants, he said. The lecturer on law said that in the current bad weather such things as strong winds and high waves as a result of global climate change could easily cause traditional fishermen to be dragged away into other countries' territorial water.
"I am afraid that bad weather as a result of global climate change will cause more Indonesian fishermen to be carried away into neighboring countries' territorial waters, or other countries' fishermen to our waters", he said.
In the meantime, Indonesia and Australia are reportedly to readjust the management and utilization of their resources in areas along their common borders.
Spokesman of the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries Affairs (DKP) Soen'an Hadi Poernomo said here on Friday Indonesia and Australia needed to cooperate in making the readjustments.
Matters taken into account in the readjustments of the resources management included the welfare of traditional fishermen and the conservation of the ecology and natural resources in the border areas, Poernomo said.
He said the two sides, through the DKP and the Australian embassy, needed to carry out a joint research by experts of the two countries on the status of the ecological resources of the waters on their common borders.
Both sides agreed to decide the ecological status of the resources and openly define which resources still could be exploited, or could be exploited with a restricted number of fishing vessels/fishing equipment and time or period of fishing.
Poernomo said that the two countries also considered the need to define the categories of groups of fishermen crossing the sea borders.***
"The cooperation is also important to prevent theft of marine resources by foreign fishermen such as often happend in the waters of Aceh province," M Adli Abdullah of Banda Aceh-based Syiah Kuala Unviersity said here on Saturday.
Besides, such a cooperation on fishing in sea border areas would prevent the entry into the country of illegal migrants, he said. The lecturer on law said that in the current bad weather such things as strong winds and high waves as a result of global climate change could easily cause traditional fishermen to be dragged away into other countries' territorial water.
"I am afraid that bad weather as a result of global climate change will cause more Indonesian fishermen to be carried away into neighboring countries' territorial waters, or other countries' fishermen to our waters", he said.
In the meantime, Indonesia and Australia are reportedly to readjust the management and utilization of their resources in areas along their common borders.
Spokesman of the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries Affairs (DKP) Soen'an Hadi Poernomo said here on Friday Indonesia and Australia needed to cooperate in making the readjustments.
Matters taken into account in the readjustments of the resources management included the welfare of traditional fishermen and the conservation of the ecology and natural resources in the border areas, Poernomo said.
He said the two sides, through the DKP and the Australian embassy, needed to carry out a joint research by experts of the two countries on the status of the ecological resources of the waters on their common borders.
Both sides agreed to decide the ecological status of the resources and openly define which resources still could be exploited, or could be exploited with a restricted number of fishing vessels/fishing equipment and time or period of fishing.
Poernomo said that the two countries also considered the need to define the categories of groups of fishermen crossing the sea borders.***
