Jakarta, Dec. 2 -- Indonesia's successes in being re-elected as council member of category C for the 2020-2021 period of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and an external auditor of IMO could become a momentum to materialize the country's vision as a world's maritime axis.

"I hope that with our successes in IMO, the government could definitively materialize (Indonesia) as a world's maritime axis, which was the slogan yesterday," Agung Firman Sampurna, chairman of the State Audit Board (BPK), said in Jakarta over the weekend.

This momentum is expected to push the government to work hard to materialize Indonesia as a global maritime axis.

As an initial step, the concept of the world's maritime axis could be elaborated into ...