REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PANDEGLANG – A hospital for fish? We are not kidding, the hospital is for those swimming creatures! The Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Sharif Sutardjo, yesterday initiated the Environment and Fish Disease Investigation Place (LPPIL) in Pandeglang, Banten, or known as Fish Hospital.

The establishment of the hospital is aimed to protect the cultivation area, food safety, and fish health. “Thus, we can increase the competitiveness internationally,” Sutardjo said.

To build the hospital, LPPIL spent 26 billion IDR for the facilities that would become future national laboratory. The scope includes the examination of water and land quality, parasitological, micrology, bacteriology, hispathology, biology molecular, vaccine production, and immunology.

“It is to fit the standard international of fish health,” Sutarjo said. Therefore, Indonesia can increase the competitiveness in fishery sector by effective management from aquatic animal disease. Hopefully, the hospital can help to boost the Indonesian social economy, especially for low-income people living in the village. The cultivation can also get the disease information including treatment procedure and the medication.

LPPIL says that in 2012 the foundation will do several efforts toward the founding of cultivation center in Lampung, Karang Asem, Java Island, and Sumatera, LPPIL has taken 528 samples from within Indonesia. With LPPIL, Indonesian exporters do not have to go to Singapore to test the fish quality.

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