- Each of the 1,721 participating fishers will receive the equivalent of $10 a week for collecting up to 4 kg (9 lbs) of plastic waste from the sea daily.It said the money, which works out to about 150,000 rupiah ($10) per fisher per week, would serve as compensation for their not fishing during this period.“This activity is very simple,” Sakti Wahyu Trenggono, the fisheries minister, said at a press conference in Jakarta, adding that it wasn’t expected to be the silver bullet for the country’s marine waste problem.The government also plans to make producers take greater responsibility for the waste generated by their products.“Hopefully this can be a nationwide effort and, even better, a worldwide action.”Basten Gokkon is a senior staff writer for Indonesia at Mongabay."