Jakarta, May 30 -- The village of Tegalretno in Kebumen District, Central Java, hosts a facility for the Area-Based Shrimp Farming (BUBK) project, a model of national fisheries industrialization that occupies 100 hectares of coastal land.

More than an expanse of fish ponds, the site represents Indonesia's ambition to overhaul its aquaculture sector, shifting from traditional practices toward a modern industrial ecosystem backed by advanced technology.

The government launched the project in March 2023 as a strategic tool to address environmental degradation that has often left traditional fish farmers facing harvest failures.

Of the total potential area, 65 hectares have been transformed into a complex yet highly systematic hydrological...