THE protracted debate over the ban on the use of cantrang (deep trawling) seine nets suggests there is a serious problem on how President Joko Widodo’s government issues regulations. After the cantrang regulation was first issued by Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti on January 9, 2015, its implementation has been postponed three times. The ban on the use of the cantrang to net fish is supposed to take effect this June, but