Enhancing Maritime Safety: Indonesian’s Ship Safety Assessment Strategies

Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago, two-thirds of the country is covered by sea. However, due to many factors, a lot of ship accidents occur every year, causing a large number of casualties. Efforts have been made to improve the safety of domestic sea transportation in order to fully comply with SOLAS regulations. However, the varying sea and cargo conditions, along with low passenger education, increase their vulnerability to accidents. The methods used in this paper were FSA Methods with the use of Ship safety strategy with the Safety Assessment Model. The research was carried out to explore the most appropriate strategy for ensuring the safety of ships operating on Indonesian waters using various methods, where the four most influencing aspects i.e. Software, Hardware, Environment, and Live-ware were put into consideration. The existing conditions and experience learned from the past, backgrounds and sources of accidents/incidents were investigated. Based on the findings feasible strategy is proposed, which will include the design requirements; qualification of personnel, refined rules, and operational efficiency.