TEMPO.CO, Pangandaran – Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Susi Pudjiastuti once plunged a truck into the waters off Pangandaran, West Java to provide a nest for lobsters and fish.
“She once drowned a truck,” Ade, an employee of PT ASI Pudjiastuti Marine—one of Susi’s companies, told Tempo on Wednesday, October 29, 2014.
Ade said Susi bought the trucks in 1988 for lobster distribution. In around 2000, the trucks were not in a good condition anymore and someone offered to buy one at Rp5 million.
Susi, however, turned down the offer, saying that the trucks were bought using money from sea produces so they should be returned to the sea.
“So the truck was drowned into the sea to become a fish nest,” Ade said.
CANDRA NUGRAHA