The province of Aceh has 1,660 km of coastline with 199 outer islands as well as fish stocks estimated at 230,000 tons per year but with simple equipment capable of producing 130,000 tons of fresh fish annually
Farmers and fishermen are the majority of the country's population. Almost 60% of Indonesia's population is in rural and coastal areas. This profession is consistent with Indonesia's agrarian and marine nature as the country's largest territory. But this profession seems to be a major contributor to poverty and low quality of our nation's human resources. Poverty as a social disease of developing countries continues to grow even more among farmers and fishermen in particular. As if being a fisherman is a compulsion, whereas our sea is rich and holds trillions of wealth if it is able to manage it optimally.
In fact, fishermen are still in a puddle of poverty and ignorance, far from prosperous terms. On the other side politicians and bureaucracy "wallowing" in wealth and wealth, seafood is only enjoyed by a handful of entrepreneurs who are reluctant to share even CSR programs that are their obligation to help fishermen. This is the fact that the country that people say is the emerald equator. If like this when will the fishermen prosper? Wait until the fish in the sea runs out by the action of illegal fishing foreign ships that collaborate with domestic criminals? Or indeed the fisherman will not be prosperous? Is it difficult to make fishermen prosperous?