Indonesia needs 200 thousands graduates in fishery and marine sector

Padang, Wes Java (ANTARA News) - Indonesia needs about 200 thousands graduates in the field of explorations and procession of maritime and fishery resources but institutions in this field in the country have yet to able to meet the demand, a lecturer said here on Friday.

"The need for graduates in this field in the last five years continue to increase sharply, namely about 200 thousand annually," Dean of Bung Hatta University`s Fisheries and Maritime School, Yempita Efendi said.

He said that Indonesian institutes of higher learning had not yet been able to meet the need because the number of such institutions in the country was only 12, both state-owned and privately-run institutes.

The 12 institutes of higher learning which open study programs in the fisheries and maritime resources could only turn out about 1,000 graduates annually. Still, not all of these graduates work in the sector, he said.