Susi’s explosive tactics leave winning impression
As a tough yet easy-going Cabinet minister, Susi Pudjiastuti commands a rock-star appeal not only at home but also at international forums for her hard-hitting approach to poachers and, of course, for her explosive antics.
There was a cheery atmosphere in a spacious office at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome one recent afternoon. Most of the dozen people were chatty, smiling Indonesian bureaucrats in business suits attending a fisheries meeting.
Once in a while, a chorus of loud, hearty laughter exploded behind a closed door of a room reserved for Maritime Affairs and Fishery Minister Susi Pudjiastuti to host bilateral meetings with FAO director general Jose Graziano da Silva and her numerous counterparts.
Her aides gathered in the next room caught the contagious laughter when she entertained her last guest that day, the Republic of Palau’s Natural Resources, Environment and Tourism Minister, F. Umiich Sengebau, and his delegation. A picture secretly snapped during the meeting and shared in a WhatsApp group showed that Susi shares a striking passion with a lady accompanying Sengebau: They both adorn their bodies with tattoos.
‘’They look just as enigmatic,’’ the photo caption read.
As soon as Sengebau left, Susi called in journalists for a briefing. Looking disheveled and jovial as usual, Susi was the center of attention, with delegates and reporters from other countries pursuing her for interviews and photos. At home, she is a media darling for her courageous moves to reform bureaucracy. And, yes, she stands out abroad for her antics, too.
Susi, who owned multimillion-dollar fish export and charter-flight companies, boasting 55 aircraft manned by 165 pilots of 32 nationalities, long before she became a Cabinet minister, has attracted global attention after she resorted to dynamite in dealing with foreign vessels stealing fish in Indonesian waters.
‘’Maybe my antics are just too much for many people to ignore, ‘’ she said, chuckling.
Apparently, she developed a chemistry with Sengebau as well. They agreed to discuss cooperation to make the South Pacific archipelago a transit point for Indonesia’s trade with the US and Japan.
But the crucial news that Susi passed on to reporters was that Palau seemed to love her explosive tactics in deterring illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, which was the conference’s main theme.
“He [Sengebau] has been inspired by me,’’ she said, beaming with delight. ‘’They [Palau authorities] have begun blasting illegal fishing boats that find their way there after Indonesia began the boat-sinking campaign.’’
It appears the FAO chief is also a fan of Susi. In the course of the conference Da Silva made flattering mention of her controversial policy. Asked if Da Silva criticized her tactics to stop illegal fishing during their meeting, Susi said, “No. In fact he said, ‘Indonesia surprises me’.’’
He reportedly asked her to document her experiences in handing illegal fishing so that they could serve as ‘’guidelines’’ to be shared with other countries because so far only Indonesia has carried out the measures in a systematic fashion. Da Silva also wanted to have Indonesian staffers at the FAO headquarters.
more: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/07/27/susi-s-explosive-tactics-leave-winning-impression.html
Republic of Fiji Appreciation Step Combating IUU Fishing in Indonesia
The delegation of the Republic of Fiji represented by the Minister of Fisheries and Forestry of the Republic Fiji, Osea Naiqamu, expressed his appreciation for immediate measures by the Indonesian government in the fight against Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing.
“Our appreciation of the immediate measures taken by the government of Indonesia in the fight against IUU fishing in Indonesia,” said the Minister of Fisheries and Forestry of the Republic of Fiji, Osea Naiqamu, after the bilateral meeting with the Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) of Indonesia in Jakarta, Wednesday (27/7).
in addition, the Fiji delegation also gave awards high on the Indonesian government for the cooperation that has existed in the marine and fisheries sector through the MoU signed in 2014 and the establishment of the Joint Sub-Committee working Group on Marine and fisheries.
more: https://anshora.com/asia/republic-of-fiji-appreciation-step-combating-iuu-fishing-in-indonesia/
