Pratikno: I Have Never Been Involved in My Children’s Professional Lives
Rino Febrian, the son-in-law of State Secretary Pratikno, is business partners with the son of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Wahyu Sakti Trenggono. The two men have shares in a fisheries company whose business lines span from upstream to downstream. An investigation by Jaring.id and Tempo, with support from the Pulitzer Center, also found that […]
Jumping Vessel: Illegal fishing, worker exploitation, and fugitive vessels in the Arafura Sea
What would it take to make you voluntarily jump off a vessel in the middle of the sea? For Muhammad Sanusi and five other crew members of the Russian-flagged fishing vessel Run Zeng 03, it was six days of grueling work, inedible food, and broken promises. It started on Saturday, 6 April 2024, when Sanusi, […]
Director-General of PSDKP: We Can Blend in with the Bad Guys
The capture of the Russian-flagged fishing vessel Run Zeng 03 in May 2024 was only the tip of the iceberg of illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUUF) in Indonesia. Based on the IUU Fishing risk index released by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (Gitoc) in December 2023, Indonesia was the sixth worst country […]
A Tale of Two Ministers’ Sons
A number of obsolete vessels were moored at Benjina Port, Aru Islands, Maluku, on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Among them was the KM Antasena, an ex-foreign vessel from Thailand that had disappeared when the moratorium on ex-foreign vessels was first enforced in 2014. After 10 years, the yellow and red paint that previously covered the […]
