Poteran Island

Location

Sumenep Regency, East Java.
East of Madura Island, about 100 km east of Surabaya.
Accessibility: by car from Surabaya to Sumenep (5 hours), ferry ship (car and passenger) Sumenep to Talango (20 minutes).

Condition

Sumenep area includes 126 scattered islands, 48 of them inhabited.
8 villages at Poteran Island, Talango District. One of these villages is a religious pilgrim site.
Economy dominated by agriculture (rice, corn, soybeans, peanuts, green beans, cassava and sweet potatoes, tobacco), sea fishery and aquaculture.
Industry (mainly small industry and handicraft) with low employment potential.
Tourism is concentrated in Sumenep, not on the islands.

Strategy Proposal

Cultivation of tropical plants with high value-added potential, material-based and energy-based utilization, extraction of herbal substances with market potential in nutrition, cosmetics, pharmaceutical industries, or bio mass, both for Indonesian/Asian and German/European markets.
Integration with local sea fisheries, and with mangrove & coral protection activities.

Status Today

Joint Ph.D. working group ITS and Hochschule Wismar has been established.
Respective project proposal launched for financial support by the German Government.
Dept. of Biology ITS undertook Investigation on the population of Moringa Oleifera & some other plants.
Dept. of Chemistry ITS and Hochschule Wismar conduct 4 years joint research on herbal extraction techniques.
Marine Research Center, ITS & University of Trunojoyo Madura conduct 3 years research on zonation of Poteran Island.