countering illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through the capacity building program in indonesia-australia fisheries surveillance forum 2017-2019

This paper aims to analyses indonesia and australia effort to fight iuu fishing. indonesia which is an archipelagic country, makes the sea area a vital point for economic life and security. australia is one of the regional powers in the pacific region which makes indonesia a buffer state. one way to fight iuu fishing is through iafsf collaboration with one of the programs which is capacity building. based on data collection through interviews and literature studies using the triangulation technique as a data validity technique, this paper found that the iafsf capacity building programs should be the program that has the most impact on eradicating iuu fishing in indonesia, but the results of the programs are still uneven.