Inauguration of Professor

The potential of aquaculture resources in Indonesia is enormous. Currently, Indonesia becomes the 4th biggest contributor of food derived from aquaculture in the world, after China, India, and Vietnam. Nevertheless, fish consumption in Indonesia is uneven, in outside Java it is generally higher than average (30.17 kg/capita) whereas in Java it is lower, even less than 20 kg/capita.

As a country that has considerable amount of natural resources, Indonesia has a wide range of chemical industry, whether small, medium or large. There are five major oil refineries owned by state owned enterprise PT. Pertamina, 5 large-scale fertilizer plants, as well as several cement factories with a production capacity reaching several million tons per year. Everything is high-tech; these plants process natural resources into products that are needed by the society.

Indonesia is a country which has a quite large migrant workers. Data of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers (BNP2TKI) mention that the total number of migrant workers is 126,031 people of which 78.05% (98 372) are female workers.