Jurnalis Layari Perairan Belitung Tinjau `Kandidat` Pulau Karantina
Indonesian Journalists Sailed the Waters of Belitung Island
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
SEBUAH FOTO bermakna lebih dari sejuta kata, lantas bagaimana dengan melihat langsung, mungkin tidak terhitung lagi kata yang harus dituliskan untuk menceritakannya kembali. Begitu pula hasil ´pandangan mata´ para jurnalis bersama Badan Karantina Pertanian (Barantan) dalam kunjungan pers ke Pulau Naduk dekat Pulau Belitung di Provinsi Bangka Belitung, yang akan dikembangkan pemerintah melalui Kementerian Pertanian RI menjadi Pulau Karantina.
Kunjungan pers tersebut merupakan bagian dari kegiatan Menteri Pertanian RI, Andi Amran Sulaiman yang dijadwalkan melakukan panen padi di Desa Air Saga, Kecamatan Tanjungpandan, Kabupaten Belitung, pada Rabu pagi (5/8). Dilanjutkan membuka rapat koordinasi Badan Karantina Pertanian (Barantan) didampingi Kepala Barantan, Banun Harpini, terkait pengembangan Pulau Karantina di provinsi Bangka Belitung.
Terik matahari, dan kencangnya tiupan angin tak menyurutkan minat rombongan wartawan menumpang perahu motor berkapasitas 20 penumpang. Tampak hadir Kepala Subbagian Hubungan Masyarakat Barantan, Mohamad Arif Cahyono; Kepala Seksi Karantina Hewan Barantan Pangkal Pinang, Herwin Tarti; dan staf protokol Kementan, Agung Hari Ismanto.
Setelah melayari perairan Pulau Belitung hampir satu setengah jam, perahu motor merapat di penangkaran ikan kerapu di dekat Pulau Naduk, berhubung belum ada dermaga di ´pulau perawan´ yang bakal menjadi Pulau Karantina.
"Penangkaran ikan kerapu milik Lindawati banyak membantu kami selama melakukan survei di Pulau Naduk beberapa bulan terakhir ini," kata Yazid Ansori, pegawai dari Dinas Pertanian Kabupaten Belitung kepada para wartawan.
Kepala Pusat Karantina Hewan dan Keamanan Hayati Hewani, Badan Karantina Kementan, Sujarwanto mengatakan Pulau Karantina kelak berfungsi untuk memastikan sapi impor yang masuk Indonesia bebas penyakit, sehingga Indonesia bisa mengimpor sapi indukan selain dari Australia dan Selandia Baru.
PICTURE significantly more than a million words, then what about the look directly, certainly not counted written word to tell. So did results of the visit of journalists with the Indonesian Agricultural Quarantine Agency in a press visit to Naduk island near Belitung Island in Bangka Belitung Province, which will be developed by the government through the Agriculture Ministry become Quarantine Island.
The press visit is part of the activities of Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman who is scheduled to hold the rice harvest in Air Saga village, Tanjungpandan sub-district, Belitung district on Wednesday (5/8). Followed a coordination meeting of the Agricultural Quarantine Agency, accompanied by the head of agency, Banun Harpini, related to development plan Quarantine Island in Bangka Belitung province.
Hot sun and strong wind did not deter a group of journalists aboard a motor boat with a capacity of 20 passengers. Attending Head of Public Relations Division of the agency, Mohamad Arif Cahyono; Animal Quarantine Section Head in Pangkal Pinang, Herwin Tarti; and protocols the ministry, Agung Hari Ismanto.
After a sea trip almost one and a half hour, motorboat moored in the rookery grouper fish near Naduk Island, because there is no dock.
"Captive breeding of grouper fish belonging Lindawati helped us during the survey Naduk Island last few months," Yazid Ansori, employees of agriculture department Belitung District told reporters.
Head of Animal Quarantine and Animal Biosafety, Agriculture Quarantine Agency, said Sujarwanto Quarantine Island will serve to ensure cattle imported into Indonesia free of disease, so that Indonesia can import breeding cattle.
