Two female salted fish processing craftsmen in Belawan City, Kurnia Village, are carrying out the traditional process of filtering or processing salted fish. One of the craftsmen, Ani Hutapea, said that the processing process starts from taking the fish from the sea in Indonesian waters, until it is brought ashore to be boiled. , given salt and dried in the sun, until the filtering and sieving process is carried out after which it is put into packaging, ready to be marketed or exported abroad.

Based on Indonesian data, Indonesian salted fish exports reached US$ 105.96 million throughout 2021. Indonesia's largest salted fish exports were to Japan worth US$ 25.32 million with a volume of 3.72 million kg./Kartik Byma