REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesia needs big ports with sufficient supply of electricity to increase its fish production.

"We should build big ports, with sufficient electric capacity, to increase fish production," Vice President Jusuf Kalla stated here on Monday.

The availability of adequate electricity is needed to operate cold storages and fish processing facilities.

"Indonesia lacks big ports and adequate cold storage facilities. As a results, we are not able to exploit and process fish on a large scale," the vice president affirmed.