REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The fishermen alliance met the Presidential Staff at Merdeka Palace following the mass protest held in front of the office at 9 am to 3 pm local time, the group's field coordinator Rusdianto Samawa stated here on Tuesday.

"We met the head of Presidential Staff (KSP) Teten Masduki and discussed four recommendations on trawl ban policy," Samawa remarked in Jakarta.

According to the coordinator, both parties, namely the authority and the group's 15 representatives, agreed on four measures, including that the authority will temporarily allow fishermen to use the trawl net until the end of 2017 while studying the environmental impacts of the tool.

The second recommendation was that if the trawl was approved as not being harmful to the environment, then the fishermen can call on the authority to nationally legalize the fishing tool.