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In Indonesia, the first priority now is what we call the revitalization of agriculture and fisheries. Why? Because there's a very big problem in Indonesia with poverty and with the unemployment rate. Poverty is extremely bad in Indonesia, with unemployment and underemployment.
Most of the fishermen, 60% of our population, stay in the coastal areas, in the small islands, and maybe 80% of them live in poverty. So the big problem now is how to reduce poverty, and the second one is how to reduce unemployment for the fishermen. This is our big priority, not the commercial fishing.
On the other hand, we have a big problem with illegal fishing. They come from Thailand, from China, from Korea, from Taiwan, or from Vietnam to the Indonesian ocean, and then there is a very big problem with illegal fishing. That is why the traditional fishermen of Indonesia are still below the poverty line. The first priority of the Indonesian government and of course of our standing committee, our commission, is how to reduce the poverty of the fishermen and how to reduce unemployment in the fishermen's area. It's the big problem.
The second one, of course, commercial fishing, is only the second priority, not the first priority. That is why we now give subsidies to the traditional fishermen. But for that we need new laws, a new act, to protect the coastal and small island areas, because we don't have enough laws for that.
We know that here in your country you have a Coastal Fisheries Protection Act, 1985, the Oceans Act, the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act, the Parks Canada Agency Act, the Coasting Trade Act--you have so many acts here. So that is why we would like to learn about your system, about your acts, about your regulations, about your management, about how you protect your coastal areas.
And of course the population has stayed in these areas. This is a big problem in Indonesia now. That is why we would like to learn about the system of Canada, how to protect not only the fishermen but also the ecosystem of the small islands and the coastal zones in Canada.