Among other countries in the world, Indonesia is well-known for its largest archipelago with unique geography of islands. By looking at the geographic aspect, two third of Indonesia’s territory is covered by ocean. With the width of ocean around 5.8 million kilometres square and scattered by more than 17500 islands, Indonesia has incredible potency to enhance maritime industries that play a massive role in supporting maritime transportation. In other word, Indonesia is being positioned as an oceanic country that owns comparative and competitive advantage globally within zone of international economy.

Moreover, maritime plays a very significant role for both national and international trade, especially in Indonesia where mostly export and import products carried through marine infrastructure. Therefore the facility and infrastructure availability is the absolute requirements to support the sea trade in Indonesia. The efficiency of the trade flow is one of the keys for the development of Indonesia’s domestic trade and export.

Considering the economic potency of Indonesia maritime which is very large and vary, the demands toward products and services on maritime also increase significantly, leading maritime economy to be one of Indonesia’s  competitive advantages. For instance there are numbers of business prospects of maritime economy that are able to develop and increase the country’s wealth. They consist of shipping port and logistic, naval vessel, aquaculture, mining and offshore energy, and aquatic tourism.