yet the banda islands are world-famous for the spice trade, especially nutmeg once worth its weight inold. >>reporter: the moluccas have also been named indonesia's centre for fisheries encompassing 600 thousand square kilometres of sea. both under-utilised sectors are now being fast-tracked for development. >>hayward: eastern indonesia has vulnerabilities; has vulnerabilities which are both environmental,political, social, economic. it also has great resiliences. because this area has an amazing history of trade with other regions and with maintaining its own environments so it is a question of balancing those two areas. >>soesilo: we are moving forward to make ambon and maluku the gate of east indonesia, ready to invite investment for the coming years, mostly on marine and fisheries sector...the potential of captivefisheries in this area is more than one million tonnes per year. >>reporter: robert tjoanda runs one of the largest tuna processing companies in the moluccas. and business is booming. each year his company sells over one thousand tonnes of fish for sushi mainly tothe us hi