European Journal of Business and Management www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1905 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2839 (Online) Vol.13 No.7, 2021 71 Policy Recommendation for Food Security in Indonesia: Fish and Sea Cucumber Protein Hydrolysates Innovation Based Sugeng Santoso, Dewi Nusraningrum, Baruna Hadibrata, Winda Widyanty* Universitas Mercu Buana, Jakarta, Indonesia Salmi Mohd. Isa Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia Yoce Aprianto, Henny Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Jakarta, Indonesia Abstract The development of Fish and Sea Cucumber Protein Hydrolysates (HSPH) is very important in fulfilling the needs of nutrition to boost immunity and prevent malnutrition. The technology to produce HSPH has been classified in Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 9 or equivalent with Innovation Readiness Level (IRL) 3 which is able to provide added value for the product, technology management, thus it is ready for commercialization. The development of HSPH is suggested to conduct through strategic cooperation with cooperatives and multi- stakeholders including government agencies and private companies. The objective of this paper is to put a comprehensive policy recommendation to provide adequate nutritional food from marine product diversification as an alternative option in managing and combating food security challenges in the longer-term. Keywords: Food Security, HSPH, TRL9, IRL3, policy, Indonesia DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-7-08 Publication date: April 30 th 2021 1. Introduction As the largest archipelagic country in the world, Indonesia has abundant of marine and fishery potentials which contains a wide variety of types of fish resources (Pangestuti et al., 2018). The ocean plays an undeniably central role in Indonesia. With a water area that is nearly four times larger than its land area, the country obtains benefits from the sea for its economy and natural environment. Indonesia has one of the highest levels of marine biodiversity in the world (CEA, 2018). Those benefits to strengthen the resilience of national economy. The Government of Indonesia has a proper direction that has been stipulated in the National Midterm Development Plan (RPJMN) 2020 – 2024 by focusing in development of maritime economy in fishery sector and biotechnology industry. This macro policy is a great weapon to create supply and demand which could create economic transformation by providing added value in innovation and technology. The marine and fisheries sector has been important contributor to national food security and the creation of added value in the food supply chain in Indonesia. Food and nutritional security is extremely linked to efforts to raising the health quality of both the individual and the community, and to strengthened competitiveness of human resources, which in turn will develop into a nation’s competitiveness and sustainable economic development, particularly in marine and fisheries sector. A recent study ranked Indonesia as the eighth-most fish-dependent nation in the world, measured by dependence on fish-derived animal protein (CEA, 2018). Because of its high cost, usually fishes that are raised by using this method are type that has high market value (Carballo, et al. 2008). It shows that Indonesian people should increase fish-derived products consumption to reduce stunting and other malnutrition cases (Ngaisyah and Rohman, 2019). Since food and nutrition security are among the key agendas in national development and have direct linkage to the status of community health, the government is also supporting to accelerate creating economic added value in marine and fisheries sector by formulating national policies as stipulated on Government Regulation Number 57 of 2015 (FAO, 2013). Importantly, the fisheries sector plays a particularly valuable role in coastal communities, where people are likely to engage in fishing as a primary or secondary source of employment (Marshall et al., 2010). 2. National Commitment to Nutrition Based on the basic health research conducted by Ministry of Health (MoH), Indonesia faces challenge relating to nutrition. At national scale, children under five years with malnourished and undernutrition in 2013 record 5.7 percent and 13.9 percent respectively. Compared to national status in 2010, there is an increase in malnourished prevalence from 4.9 percent, while undernutrition prevalence goes up 0.9 percent from 2007 to 2013 (Riskesdas, 2013). A recent study examined that one of underlying causes of malnutrition is inadequate access to food (UNICEF, 2018). Similarly, provinces with poor access of food are related to food insecurity (SMERU, 2015). Another study estimated that adequate access of nutrition could decrease of 10.9 percentage points in the