Maritime Culture Empowerment under Indonesian Ocean Policy

Maritime Culture is one of the 7 pillars of Indonesian OceanPolicy, while the Indonesian Ocean Policy is a big narrative of the Global Maritime Fulcrum development idea and Indonesia’s Maritime Policy consists of 7 pillars of policy. Maritime Culture has 6 main programs including the development of cultural values and maritime social system repository, improving ocean and culture literacy, harmonizing local wisdom in sustainable resources, historic seaport revitalization, reviving the understanding of maritime culture and innovation based on local wisdom development. This paper is aimed at obtaining understanding of Indonesian Ocean Policy and the development of maritime culture empowerment as the policy’s action plan, particularly for the next 5 years 2020-2024 action plan. Maritime culture empowerment is carried out through 3 cultural development programs, namely Ocean and Culture Literacy, Culture Action or Activation, and Culture-based Innovation. The Spice Route as a national heritage is proposed to be a major theme in the 5-year action plan on maritime culture empowerment through three priority works: improving cultural literacy and cultural connectivity with look east policy; encouraging the maritime generation through various activities in supporting sustainable development, particularly in supporting the tourism and Indonesiacentric program; and realizing maritime innovation based on empowering cultural and resources diversities.