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Dhani Akbar
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, Indonesia
Email: rittersarmy@gmail.com
Eki Darmawan
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, Indonesia
Email: Ekidarmawan75@gmail.com
Okparizan
Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji, Indonesia
Email: okparizan11083@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This study considers the public policy and government aspects of the development on maritime
economy to build an integrated and sustainable maritime development according to Indonesian
Global Maritime Fulcrum program. This study focuses on the development of trade and traditional
economic sector, and the consistency of domestic government’s policy on realizing the integrated
and connected economic development, by strengthening government commitment since 2015,
such as enhance inter-island connectivity, strengthen the port infrastructure, reduce price dispar-
ity, and boost commerce within the country. The development in Kepulauan Riau Province does
have the geographically potential because of the neighborhood with Singapore, and has been one
of the targets of central government program. That is in T6 in Natuna-Tarempa-Pontianak, which
distribution hub is located in Pontianak, West Kalimantan and has the capacity of TEUs of 3.000
Ton (General Cargo). The potential is also to gain larger financial resources of national plan and
also try to leverage on the regional financing schemes to realize the connectivity plan of maritime
sector. Kepulauan Riau Province has been focusing on the policy of the development of Natuna,
Anambas, and Lingga (NAL) as the maritime development fulcrum in Kepulauan Riau Province.
It can be reflected on the sea toll policy.In fact, NAL have been faced by several problems, such as
economy situation, much depend on how Kepulauan Riaudeals with its domestic challenges and
offer itself as an attractive infrastructure investment destination.This study is divided intoThree
sections. First section is the concept and method of the study. Second section is about the impor-
tance of having the integrated and connecteddevelopment in order to increase maritime economy.
Third section is about the current situation of development policies in Kepulauan Riau Province.
INTRODUCTION
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tation systems. The sea transportation sector is a very important economic activity for
islands (archipelagic countries), such as Indonesia. Ocean transportation services develop
to serve the delivery of goods and others. The application of the blue economy concept14
to sea transportation can be used in determining hubs / strategic points as the main port
or feeder port, a system capable of building integrated sea transportation by using effi-
cient and effective resources.
The main purpose of this research is to find out the importance of having the in-
tegrated and connected development in order to increase maritime economy, explain the
current situation of development policies in Kepulauan Riau Province.This research con-
tributes to extant literature of governance and international relations by examining the
connectivity of maritime in Indonesia in general and maritime economic in particular.The
research question for this study is to determine the connectivity between regions in Kepu-
lauan Riau Province, which is considered, will accelerate the growth of regional economic.
The research discussed on how maritime policy of connectivity can improve local eco-
nomic potentials, people prosperity, and reducing the gaps.
The method of this research is qualitative, which means values that cannot be stat-
ed in numbers (statistics). So, qualitative data is data in the form of words or sentences,
pictures, schemes that have not been predicted. Research that uses data that is not in the
ratio scale, but in the form of more scales, namely nominal, ordinal or interval scale, all
of which can be categorized, so that it is clear what will be equated and differentiated to
answer the problems that have been formulated in the study. (Pasolong, 2013: 70)
This research used descriptive analysis technique, which is a study that describes
what happened when conducting research. In this study there are efforts to record, de-
scribe, analyze and interpret the conditions that currently occur or exist. This study does
not test hypotheses, but only describes what information is objectively. Therefore, de-
scriptive research generally uses the word question “how” in formulating the sentence
of the research question. (Sugiono in Pasolong, 2013: 75). The location of this research is
in the Riau Islands Province and will be carried out in the Government Office of the Riau
Islands Province, Tanjungpinang City, especially in Institutions and Service Offices related
to the issues to be studied.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
There are three factors that are influencing the decreasing of competitiveness in-
dex of Indonesia, the most important is the poor availability of infrastructure and among
the components of infrastructure, and there are the quality of ports and roads. Important
indicators supporting competitiveness are the Enabling Trade Index (ETI) and the Logis-
tics Performance Index (LPI). Both indicators have parts that must be improved so that
they can become a starting point for changes and reforms in various sectors of the econo-
my. (A. Prasetyantoko, 2010; 165-170).
Regional Autonomy
Etymologically, the word autonomy comes from Latin: auto means self and nomein
means rules, or laws. Then autonomy means self-regulating, or governing itself, or in the
broadest sense is the right to regulate and manage the regional household itself. Whereas
according to Law No. 23 of 2014, Regional Autonomy is the right, authority and obligation
of autonomous regions to regulate and manage their own government affairs and the in-
terests of local communities in accordance with the laws and regulations.
The Autonomous Region is a legal community unit that has regional boundaries
authorized to regulate and manage government affairs and the interests of local commu-
nities according to their own initiative based on the aspirations of the people in the sys-
tem of the Republic of Indonesia. It was also explained that the Republic of Indonesia
adhered to the principle of decentralization, the principle of de-concentration, and the
task of assisting in the administration of the government by giving the opportunity and
freedom to the regions to organize autonomy in the regions. Therefore, it can be conclud-
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According to Said (Badrudin, 2012: 17), there are four perspectives that underlie the pos-
itive aspects and four perspectives that underlie the negative aspects of regional autono-
my. Four perspectives that underlie the positive aspects of regional autonomy, namely the
means for 1) democratization, 2) help improve the quality and efficiency of government,
3) promote national stability and unity, and 4) promote regional development. While the
four negative perspectives that underlie regional autonomy namely 1) create unexpected
fragmentation and division, 2) weaken the quality of government, 3) create greater re-
gional disparities, and 4) allow for greater deviations in the direction of democracy.
Public Policy
The term policy is often exchanged with other terms such as goals, programs, de-
cisions, laws, provisions, proposals and big plans. For policy makers these terms will not
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cause any problems because they use the same references. But for people who are outside
the structure of policy making these terms may be confused.
According to Syafiie (2006: 104), explained that the policy should be distinguished
from wisdom, because wisdom is the embodiment of rules that have been established ac-
cording to local conditions and conditions by authorized officials. For this reason, Syafiie
defines public policy as a kind of answer to a problem, because it will be an effort to solve,
reduce, and prevent an evil and instead become an advocate, innovator, and leader of
goodness in the best way and directed action.In addition, Keban (2008: 55) provides an
understanding of the side of public policy, which he cited from Graycar’s opinion, where
according to him that: Public Policy can be seen from philosophical concepts, as a product,
as a process, and as a framework.
This is similar to David Easton in Toha (2010: 107), to the following statement: “The
authoritative allocation of value of the whole society but it turns out that only government
can be relatively negative on the whole society, and everything the government chooses
to do or not to do results in the allocation of values”, which means that Government policy
as an authoritative allocation for the whole community. Therefore, all chosen to be done
or not done is the result of the allocation of these values.Meanwhile, Koontz and O‘Donnel
(1972: 113), define policy as a general statement of understanding that guides the mind
in decision making.Whereas according to Anderson (1984: 113), said that policy is an ac-
tion that has a purpose that is done by a person or a number of actors to solve a problem.
Furthermore Anderson classifies the policy into two: substantive and procedural.
Substantive policy is what must be done by the Government, while procedural policy is
who and how the policy is carried out. This means that public policy is policies devel-
oped by Governments and Government Officials.Furthermore, he said that there were
five things related to public policy. Among other things, first, goals or goal-oriented
activities must be the main concern of random behavior or events that suddenly occur.
Second, the policy is a model pattern of government officials’ actions regarding their
discretionary decisions separately. Third, policies must include what the Government is
doing, or what they say will be done.Fourth, the form of public policy in its positive form
is based on legal provisions and authority. The purpose of public policy is to achieve pub-
lic welfare through policy products made by the Government.Fifth, every policy product
must pay attention to the substance of the target situation, giving birth to a recommen-
dation that takes into account various programs that can be elaborated and implemented
as intended by the policy.
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Development Policy
According to the current government, the key to the growth of the Indonesian na-
tion is located in the region. An important factor of economic growth is not only the ex-
istence of international cooperation, but also the ongoing cooperation between regions.
Along with the issuance of Law No. 22 of 1999 concerning regional autonomy which was
later amended to Act No. 32 of 2004, the bureaucratic paradigm in Indonesia changed
from a centralized to a decentralized governance paradigm. This change has consequenc-
es for the mechanism for the implementation of public participation in the implementa-
tion of governance and development.
1. Parsons (2006: 15), provides the ideas about policy is a set of actions or plans that
contain political objectives. According to him, the word policy contains the mean-
ing of policy as rationale, a manifestation of the assessment of the consideration.
This means that a policy is an attempt to define and form a rational basis for doing
or not doing an action. Furthermore, Nurcholis (2007: 263), also provides a defi-
nition of policy as a decision of an organization that is intended to achieve certain
goals, containing provisions that can be used as a code of conduct in terms of:
2. Further decision making, which must be done either by the target group or (orga-
nizational unit of policy implementation.
The meaning of policy as quoted by Jones (1996: 47) in the views of Prof. Heinz Eu-
lau and Kenneth Prewitt, which states that the policy is: A standing decision characterized
by behavior consistency and receptiveness on the part of both who makes it and those
who abide by it “. According to Jones, policy is a permanent decision characterized by con-
sistency and repetiveness of those who make and from those who obey the decision. Even
if the definition rises a number of questions or problems to assess how long a decision
can last or what constitutes the consistency and repetition of the intended behavior and
who actually does the number of policy makers and adheres to the policy; however this
definition has introduced several components public policy.
Then Dye (2008: 1), also stated that: “Public policy is what governments ever
choose to do or not to do”, meaning that public policy is anything that is chosen by the
Government to do or not do. Based on Dye’s opinion that if the Government chooses to
do something then there must be a goal and the country’s policy must cover all actions of
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the Government, not merely a statement of the Government’s wishes or officials. Besides
that something that is not implemented by the Government includes state policy. This is
because something that is not done by the Government will have the same effect as some-
thing done by the Government.
RESULTS
Economic development in the maritime sector is one of the priorities of the de-
velopment program. Kepulauan Riau has 5 border areas with Singapore, namely Karim-
un Regency, Batam City, Natuna Regency, Anambas Islands Regency, and Bintan Regency.
The maritime potential of the Kepulauan Riau Province includes marine biotechnology
industry, deep water, marine tourism, marine energy, marine minerals, shipping, maritime
defense and maritime industry. The maritime boundary provides legal certainty for all
maritime activities, the enforcement of sovereignty and the law of the sea, especially the
management and utilization of fisheries resources.
The factor of the economic downturn in the Kepulauan Riau (Kepulauan Riau) is
the land-based development paradigm, while the sea is only treated as a place of exploita-
tion of natural resources, waste disposal, and illegal activities. For this reason, maritime
Policy is needed to restore the economy in Kepulauan Riau as an archipelagic province.
Kepulauan Riau has great resource of potential in the coastal and marine areas. This is
supported by extensive territorial waters, as well as having the potential with various
types of marine biota with high economic value. Kepulauan Riau Province is an archipel-
ago with a large sea area, with a land area of only around 5 percent. This makes the fish-
eries sector the main source of livelihood for the population of Kepulauan Riau Province.
Kepulauan Riau has a city named Batam, an economic area that has developed rap-
idly in decades, has absorbed trillions of national development funds. Batam city has priv-
ileges as a trading area and free port or Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Batam has an adequate
maritime economic infrastructure, and also has been considered and designed as the Sin-
gapore or Hong Kong of Indonesia. A free port developed has sufficient seaports and a
large maritime industry in Indonesia and is a fairly good offshore industry.
The ability of Kepulauan Riau development funds is limited and maritime policies
that have not been consistent and still partial, making Kepulauan Riau needs policies that
really lead to maritime development in order to be able to create centers of maritime-based
economic growth. There are at least seven economic growth areas that must be mari-
time-based, namely, first ,Tanjungpinang as the capital city of Kepulauan Riau Province;
second, Batam, the center of the economy with heavy sea crossing due to the growth of
its industry; third,Bintan with its Marine Tourism Focus, fourth, Lingga with agricultural
potential but still lack of accessibility; and then the last three are Karimun, Anambas and
Natuna is the frontier directly adjacent to neighboring countries.
The development in Kepulauan Riau Province does have the geographically potential
because of the neighborhood with Singapore, and has been one of the targets of central
government program. That is in T6 in Natuna-Tarempa-Pontianak, which distribution
hub is located in Pontianak, West Kalimantan and has the capacity of TEUs of 3.000 Ton
(General Cargo). The potential is also to gain larger financial resources of national plan
and also try to leverage on the regional financing schemes to realize the connectivity
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The role of the sea port as a driver of the marine economy is undoubted, with the
acquisition of economic benefits that can be gleaned from the existence of a sea port.
However, in reality there are still a number of obstacles that arise, among others: the ef-
ficiency and productivity of goods through the sea port are still very low due to the lack
of ready supporting infrastructure, such as shelters, both permanent and temporary; un-
loading-loading time; and convoluted bureaucracy. In addition, maritime connectivity
has a number of problems in its development. A number of major obstacles that must
be solved in the implementation of the concept of sea tolls are: 1) imbalance of the load
current, where the load flow from eastern Indonesia to the western region is less than in
the opposite direction; 2) the use of 3 thousand TEUs of vessels is considered not owned
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Today, the development policy of Indonesia marine has not been carried out partially. Each
ministry runs independently. As an example of Law No. 17/2008, concerning Shipping,
the main motor, Ministry of Transportation; Law No. 27/2007, concerning Management
of Coastal Areas and Small Islands and Law No. 31/2004, concerning Fisheries, under the
command of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP). This makes the region
must have the right strategy in the maritime sector development policy.
CONCLUSION
The maritime potential of the Kepulauan Riau Province includes marine biotechnology
industry, deep water, marine tourism, marine energy, marine minerals, shipping, mari-
time defense and maritime industry. The maritime boundary provides legal certainty for
all maritime activities, the enforcement of sovereignty and the law of the sea, especially
the management and utilization of fisheries resources. Kepulauan Riau Province has
been focusing on the policy of the development of Natuna, Anambas, and Lingga (NAL)
as the maritime development fulcrum in Kepulauan Riau Province. It can be reflected on
the sea toll policy. In fact, NAL have been faced by several problems, such as economy
situation, much depend on how Kepulauan Riau deals with its domestic challenges and
offer itself as an attractive infrastructure investment destination.
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