REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANYUWANGI -- Indonesia is expected to have 10 more fisheries polytechnics, including one in Banyuwangi, by 2020.
"If we find a 10-hectare plot, we will build one in Banyuwangi," Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Dwisuryo Indroyono Soesilo said here Friday.
The Minister noted his office has been building capable and competent human resources of international quality for developing the maritime and fisheries fields.
Graduates from Fisheries Institute School (STP) in Jakarta display international competency because it has established cooperation with four universities in the United States, one in Germany, one in South Korea, and one in Australia, he pointed out.
The world-class school often has teleconferences with lecturers overseas, the Minister added.
At the high-school level, ten fisheries vocational schools have been established. Among other subjects, they offer majors in fisheries techniques, fisheries nautical science, fisheries agribusiness, and seaweed agribusiness.
"In every major island, there should be at least one model fisheries vocational school.
We should also produce world-class graduates in fisheries vocational schools," he noted.
Fish and seaweed products could be used to support the Health and Education Ministries' program to improve the nutrition level in students, he observed.
District Head of Banyuwangi Abdullah Azwar Anas hailed the offer to build a fisheries polytechnic in his region.
"We are ready to build a maritime polytechnic in Banyuwangi," he stated.
Earlier, Education and Culture Minister Anies Baswedan and Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Indroyono Susilo decided to make improvements in some 900 maritime and fisheries vocational schools to prepare Indonesia's human resources for maritime development.
The quality of vocational schools will be improved to meet the standard of certification set by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Chief Minister noted in a statement recently.
The two ministers also agreed to name 10 maritime vocational schools, including those in West Java, Central Java, East Java, South Sulawesi, West Nusa Tenggara, East Kalimantan, Maluku, Tual, and North Sulawesi, as model schools.
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