Building the Eastern Coastal Area of Indonesia
Dony Rahmad Agung Saputro and Asep Sapulloh Sajali were two students of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) who became one of the champions in the event of Archipelago Essay Competition held by Universitas Pattimura, Maluku earlier this year. Not only becoming the first champion in writing the scientific papers, they got the chance to become the best presentation in the writing competition.
Dony and Asep were to create a scientific work with the title “Membangun Desa Pesisir dan Pulau-Pulau Kecil melalui Pendekatan Dinamika Sistem dan Teori Permainan: Upaya Membangun Indonesia Bagian Timur Sebagai Poros Maritim Dunia / Building Coastal Village and Small Islands through Dynamics Approach System and Game Theory: Effort to Build the Eastern Indonesia as the World Maritime Axis”
The eastern coast of Indonesia was a very potential area to be utilized, given the depletion of the natural resources on the land due to the increasing development and land use activities. So that the coastal area was a priority area to be developed. With a wealth of marine products, the potential of the eastern coast of Indonesia was not only a raw fishery commodity. “Human resources in the eastern coastal areas are also the potential that can be developed,” said Dony explaining the potential of Indonesia.
“Until now, many coastal villages have become the centers of the community activities, but they have not developed optimally. The villages have the potential to be developed in both the capture fishery, the aquaculture, the mining, the marine tourism, the sea transport service, the development, the valuable objects as well as the cultural heritage, the environmental services, and the biodiversity. So that, it is necessary to have the integrated development and the seas surrounding it to be not a barrier but a development opportunity,” said Doni.
A dynamic model approach was needed to improve the economic welfare of the coastal villages which were influenced by the multidimensional factors. In addition, the competition between villages needed to be monitored their movement through the game theory. The game theory itself was a mathematical approach to formulate the situation of the competition and the conflict between various interests that determined the development of the coastal village as the maritime village.
The system dynamics were done through several approaches. That was the community empowerment (so the citizens could manage their coastal resources), then improved the market mechanism by forming a business group, so as not to have an impact on the fish stock, increasing the potential of the poor community who had the poverty line above 20%. After running well, it could be replicated to other villages.
“It is necessary to have the role and the cooperation between the government, the academics and the community in realizing the maritime village, both the role of the government in formulating the program policies, the academics that make effective the concept and the role of the community in building the village program,” he said. (GG/Zul)
