The Role of Information Management System for Fisheries Farming in Shrimp City ( Cirebon )

Fikri Al-Haq Fachryana (Bogor Institute of Agriculture, Indonesia)

In 2007 Government of Indonesia will cooperate with Cirebon government to build harbor on a beach in sea of Cirebon area that will be a biggest harbor in south east Asian. Location of harbors in Gebang village, east of Cirebon or limit area between west Java and Center Java. Why the governments decide to build harbors in there? From where information is had gated?
Since 1990 forestry in Cirebon area has developed. There are had apply HPH ( Hak Kepemilikan Hutan ). In the time, many wood entrepreneurs buy forest area from government for wood production. Nevertheless, since 1999 HPH had lost from rule of forestry in Indonesia because many illegal logging has happened in Cirebon. In the other hand Cirebon have sugar farming which very large. Transportation for harvest with train but since 1998 not use train, but use truck. So, what kind of information management system that will be solution to result those problems?
System management in Cirebon not all use high technology like as computer system, but there are used statistical information with Statistic Center Build ( Badan Pusat Statistik ) in Cirebon. In BPS have information of fisheries, forestry, and farming. There is having information for count of fisher. From this information can help government for supply facilities fisheries such as fish ship for fisher in Cirebon. In Cirebon have three centers for fisher: Gebang, Mundu, and North Cirebon. In North Cirebon facilities more then Gebang and Mundu because as information from BPS in there is center of trade fish that there happen production and distribution fish harvest to local trade, national trading and international trading. Beside that in the trading system and process production of fish, Ciebon have many Sectors. First sector is labor fisher, this person not have facilities for fishing such as ship etc because they must rent from ship rental. They fishing and sale to consumers or give to entrepreneur fish in local area. They only get salary from companies. The second sector is to rent ship/facilities and ship industries. This person is that product/make ships for sale and rent. So beside from government, facilities of fishing are supplied from local industries. Third sector in trading of harvest fish.
From those information’s government can make a Rule to supply facilities for fishing in Cirebon precisely for affectivities and efficiency.
Beside that, we can make a information management system for fishing in Cirebon with basis data system. We must discover condition of sea in Cirebon about characteristically them. We must know about where area that many fish there are. We must know too all species of fish and character of them. We must know character of sea about Ph condition, hot condition, long and length of sea. With those information’s we can know where area that there are fishes.
Beside that we must know character of sea and fishes we must know sum of fishing facilities in all place ( Gebang, Mundu and North Cirebon ). Facilities which we know is ship, sale market, harbors, etc. With those, information’s government can make a rule for trading company of fishing in Cirebon.
Those information’s will be accurate and will be a basic for make rule of fishing. We will wait that Cirebon will be a biggest fishing city in 2007. I believe this will be happen with high information technology.