REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has asked the government to stop levying import duties on the fisheries sector to boost the country's fisheries industries, in line with President Joko Widodo's vision.

"We hope the government will free the fisheries sector from import duties," Kadin Chairman for Maritime and Fisheries Yugi Prayanto said in a press statement here on Thursday (1/1).

Prayanto added that the government needed to alleviate the burden of businesses in the fisheries sector so that fish processing industries at home can make progress and contribute more taxes through exports.

He further noted that the lifting of the import duties could be compensated by increasing fisheries export taxes.