INDONESIAN PORT GOVERNANCE

Abstract

One of Indonesian government policies in developing its economy is through empowering the logistics system known as Sea Highway or Short Sea Shipping, which demands the involvement of shipping fleet and ports management. The vision for ports development is to be efficient, competitive, and responsive in supporting domestic and international trade. To realise this vision port governance plays very significant role. The study is aimed to analyse the present port policies and based on the findings a more relevant approach to the government‟s port vision will be proposed, where equilibrium between public and private sectors is included. Benchmark to ports in United Kingdom and ports of Singapore were conducted to learn different kinds of approaches are implemented in port governance, with the considerations that these ports have some functional similarities with future Indonesia‟s maritime logistic planning. The study indicates that the new Indonesian Shipping law has not accomplished its best performance, and therefore port authority and port operator strict to their own individual roles. Therefore port infrastructure and port management should be strengthened.