November 27, 2025 | 03:17 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The building at the far end of the Kosambi Permai warehouse complex in Tangerang Regency, Banten, looked deserted. Its front door was only half open. The words “test laboratory” were visible from the outside. There was no activity when Tempo visited the public service agency (BLU) facility for lobster aquaculture on Tuesday afternoon, November 18, 2025.
A row of water tanks in front of the two-story structure was the only thing that set it apart from the other warehouses around it. Previously, this building functioned as an extension of the Situbondo BLU and was used as a processing center for lobster larvae—locally known as benih bening lobster, or BBL—before being exported to Vietnam through Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang City. “This place has been temporarily closed for the past three months,” said Nurhadi, a security guard on duty.
Mohamad Masykur, Manager of General Affairs at the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry’s BLU, confirmed the shutdown. “It was closed indefinitely in August,” he told Tempo on November 18. With the closure, BLU’s partnerships with around 100 fishermen’s cooperatives have halted. Some 300 workers, mostly outsourced staff, have been laid off.
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sakti Wahyu Trenggono abruptly shut the export gates after being open for just 15 months. He explained that the partnership with Vietnam failed to produce the intended outcomes because the country continued to allow illegal trade. “As long as illegal shipments prevail in Vietnam, it will be hard to control,” Trenggono said during a hearing with the House of Representatives’ Commission IV in Jakarta on September 3.
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