MARI Oceans
MARI Oceans is a community-based seaweed farming company that has spent more than 20 years in Indonesia developing its craft through research and development.
The company works on effective business models for harvesting seaweed in a sustainable manner while adhering to transparent business principles and environmentally friendly procedures.
It aims to provide mutually beneficial partnerships between seaweed farmers and businesses while raising awareness and social responsibility towards farmers through creative and productive solutions.
MARI Oceans has a "Farming Community Site Partnership" approach: It provides a platform for supply chain traceability, ensuring transparency from producer to consumer and empowering working conditions through supply chain traceability, focuses on community empowerment by establishing community businesses and promoting sustainable livelihoods, and uses blockchain technology to make financial services easier and accessible.
The company offers various services: R&D Hatchery Services: The hatchery service provides superior seed varieties that farmers can utilize as a starting point for producing high-quality crops. It also offers post-nursery assistance to ensure the quality of the end-result seaweed. Technical Assistance: Farmers receive training and technical assistance, as well as materials for seaweed farming. The company also ensures that they have the necessary fuel for the seaweed business process.
Smart Farming Services: The traceability platform can track seaweed pricing and market conditions to estimate the product's competitiveness. And makes the rental of equipment needed for the seaweed business easy. Business Assitance: The company provides household business training, financial literacy, and household waste management seminars to educate farmers and community people about income-generating opportunities.
The products include wet seaweed, dry seaweed, biosecure seedlings, and advanced traceability technology. It has partnered with other companies like MICRA Indonesia, Asia Affinity, Seatech, Seadling, Sea Green, KMB, and ORRAA.MARI Oceans focuses on food security and ecosystem restoration, climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction, economic development, and financial inclusion. It can benefit the Indonesian seaweed farming community and industries that need seaweed as raw material for their products.
