Poteran & Gili Iyang Site Visit 20 - 22 June 2014
By: Endry Nugroho P. & Team
Madura (22/06) - Team of SIDI Week 2014 has done a activities site visit to two of the planned adoption of the island Poteran in Madura and Maratua Island. SIDI team to Poteran island with Dr.techn. Endry Nugroho Prasetyo, M.Eng. as the coordinator do the departure towards with the team consist of 3 persons from Wismar Unversity, 6 students, and 2 lectures from ITS for 3 days. The activity begins with a visit to some of the Department's Office in Sumenep, among others, Department of agriculture, Office of the Department of transportation, Wiraraja University, and the Fisheries Agency and marine. The purpose of the visit as a means to establish cooperation with the relevant parties and perform optimally poteran island development. Poteran island is one of the tiny island of about 120 small islands scattered on the island of Madura. Poteran island has the potential of nature which is quite abundant one is Moringa oleifera plant. The SIDI project is teaming up with the University of Wismar Germany focusing on potential crop Moringa oleifera found on the island of Poteran. Moringa oleifera plants have nutritional antioxidants and is good for the health of the body. But the potential of the plant poteran Island Moringa oleifera untapped optimally. for locals, Moringa oleifera just crop serves as the guardrail between the land, as the creeping plants leaves and herbs, used as food by people. There isn’t selling value of the Moringa oleifera plant because society has not yet to do the processing on the plant Moringa oleifera. Based on the results of interviews with the head of Unit of the Agriculture on the island of Poteran, Mr. Bambang explained that the plant is easy to grown Moringa oleifera by means of stem cuttings and most of the plants on the island of poteran yet kelor affected by pesticides.
SIDI Team also make a visit to one of the companies that cultivate Moringa oleifera leaves as tea and powder. The company founder is Mr. Rahmat who pioneered the processing the leaves into valuable ingredients Moringa oleifera economically. He stated that the plant has a nutritional kelor is good and useful for body health. Therefore, efforts need to be made processing of powder products can be kelor utilized by people as a daily consumption. In addition to crop plant type, there are several Moringa oleifera nuts that grow scattered on the island of Poteran. Grain crops include sorghum, plant, saga plant peas, and Borassus flabellifer. Plant is only utilized by the community to the extent as the fulfillment of daily life without processed into a product worth selling. In addition, there are Potential resources of Sea Island of Poteran which is a seaweed found on the island of Poteran along the coast. However, processing storage until distribution reduces the quality of the sea grass so that the value of selling influence. Therefore, the need for an overhaul of the system and innovation to be developed and processed optimally.On the third day made a visit to the Gili Iyang island which is one of the Islands in Sumenep known to have relatively high oxygen content. The island consists of approximately 8,000 inhabitants population and limited by the sea.
There are two villages in the Gili Iyang,Village Bancamala and the village of Ban Ra’as. Based on the results of the analysis of known oxygen content in LIPI pualu Gili Iyang in 2006 was 20,9. However, the condition of the Gili Iyang Islands has a relatively hot temperatures, soil tends to be rocky, and plants found on the island of Gili Iyang adapts with dismissed leaves. Nevertheless, the oxygen content is quite high due to the activity of the population that rarely result in air pollution and there is a vast land location hasn't been made into a settlement. So that atmospheric conditions are mainly relatively stable oxygen content. Most of the inhabitants of Gili Iyang livelihood as a farmer and fisher.
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