Marine development plays a great strategic role in Indonesian economic development.
The 21st century is a new age for human beings to take a challenge to the sea. Over the next 50 years, the worldwide and large-scale development and utilization of marine resources will become the main point of international competition. The ocean is the treasured resource and the final space for human existence and development. As a result, international marine competition has become increasingly competitive. Competitive fields include the development of new marine energy resources, development of marine mineral resources, seafood obtaining, development of new marine drug resources and marine transport.
A modern fishery monitoring and management system is to be established for the purpose of strengthening the overall monitoring and management of sea areas and ports in Indonesia and supporting the government to establish a proper licensing system. The proposed system will bring substantial economic income for Indonesia and relieve regional dispute, fishing vessel dispute, and other negative effects, thereby carrying out an orderly and controllable marine development in Indonesia.