Indonesian Minister of Marine and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono (second from right) accompanied by ITDRI Chairman Jemy V. Confido (second from left) visited Telkom's Smart Fisheries Village booth after the signing of the collaboration on Tuesday (2/8) at Hotel Sultan, Jakarta.

Jakarta, 5 August 2022 – Being one of the largest maritime countries, Indonesia has a total area of roughly 7.81 million square kilometers, out of which 3.25 million square kilometers are ocean. Having such potential, according to data from the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries (KKP) in 2019, there was an increase of 10.8% in export value. Taking it into account, PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (Telkom) through the Indonesia Telecommunication & Digital Research Institute (ITDRI) collaborated with the Marine Fisheries Research and Human Resources Agency (BRSDM KP) to activate the penta helix collaboration network in the blue economy sector, which covers all sectors of the economy that benefit from and impact on water-related resources. ITDRI and BRSDM KP provide education, learning journey-based training, and talent counseling in the marine and fisheries sector with two activities, namely Human Resource Transformation (HR) and Learning Effectiveness and Supervision. The initiatives will focus on talent that includes Smart Fisheries Village (SFV), Measured Fishing (PIT), merging of KP Polytechnic, genetic bank project (Gen Bank), and other implementations limited within the BRSDM KP. 

The five initiatives will combine several BRSDM KP work programs, resulting in ready-to-use research and digital innovations nationwide within the Telkom-ITDRI. Since its formation in 2020, Telkom-ITDRI have carried out research, validating innovations, to the development of learning content and applications. Among them are myDigilearn, a corporate learning application and Worki, an employee experience application. By combining existing Telkom innovation products, such as Agree agricultural application, Smart Village Nusantara dashboard, SmartEye immersive technology, BigBox big data technology and Evomo IoT expertise, the integrated BRSDM KP and KKP processes and programs are expected be more efficient and effective, and can improve contribution of the blue economy. The ITDRI-BRSDM KP collaboration was launched on Tuesday (2/8) during the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries' national working meeting with the Minister of Marine and Fisheries Sakti Wahyu Trenggono in attendance.

The collaboration is underway focusing on one of the initiatives, Smart Fisheries Village (SFV), which also at the same executes one of the marine and fisheries minister's programs. SFV's goal corresponds with Telkom's innovations, Smart Village Nusantara (SVN) and Agree Fisheries. The synergy between SFV and SVN was demonstrated during the Bincang Bahari or Maritime Talk event on 21 July 2022 and each of them had a designated booth set up at the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries' national working meeting on 1-3 August 2022.

“As a form of ITDRI's commitment to building a penta helix ecosystem and producing Indonesia's digital talent, ITDRI is forging collaboration with BRSDM KP to develop the blue economy sector in Indonesia. ITDRI expects this collaboration will help to widen the sector even more so that Indonesia will soon realize its digital transformation," Chairman of ITDRI Jemy V Confido said.

SFV is an IT-based tool to develop fishing villages and technical implementing units (UPT) with proper and sustainable management. Moreover, ITDRI and BRSDM KP want to improve fishing villages' economic and social development.  SFV is committed to achieving a growing economy, working community, sustainable environment, and being digitally based. The UPT SFV activities include freshwater cultivation (grouper, catfish, tilapia, gourami, giant prawns), mina padi (grouper, koi, tilapia, giant prawns, catfish), ornamental fish (rainbow, arowana, botia), brackish water (snapper, grouper, milkfish, crab), seaweed cultivation, salt production, edu/ecotourism (Mangrove Garden, Mina Eduwisata), endemic fish conservation, magot center, and capture fisheries through AIS Wakatobi.

"Smart Fisheries Village can be a synergy between education, training, and counseling with various stakeholders to develop fishing villages in Indonesia," Head of the Marine and Fisheries Research and Human Resources Agency, I Nyoman Radiarta said.

This synergy and collaboration is realized as an inter-institutional community managed by ITDRI and BRSDM KP by utilizing metaverse technology. It is expected that they will be able to become cross-sectoral liaisons to increase the blue economy contribution to boost Indonesia's social and economic welfare. This collaboration is expected to facilitate many parties in the marine and fisheries sector in utilizing digital technology, and to benefit from results of ITDRI and BRSDM KP collaboration.