UNS — The design of milkfish bones utilization business proposed by Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta students won 2nd prize in the National Business Plan Competition (NBPC) 2021 held by Student Association (HMJ) of Mathematics Program Universitas Negeri Surabaya (Unesa). The winners of the competition were announced through the @nbpc2021 Instagram account on Sunday (26/9/2021).
Khadijah Team from UNS has three students from Diploma Program (D-3) in Agricultural Product Technology (THP) Batch 2019. The team members are Faridah Halimatus Sa’diyah, Diana Nur Miftakh, and Girindra Ayu Damastuti. The team proposed a business idea titled “Nutry Gummy: Utilizing Milkfish Bones in Nutry Gummy as an Innovation of Jelly Candy with Local Taste”. The team selected this product development based on the gelatin needs in Indonesia that are still imported from other countries and cause high prices in the market. The Indonesian community, in general, is also questioning the halalness of the imported gelatin product as the main material in jelly candy.
Faridah Halimatus Sa’diyah, a member of Khadijah Team from Gresik, observed that her region has high Milkfish production and sub-optimum milkfish bones processing. “While milkfish has high protein and has a potential to be processed into gelatin,” Faridah explained to uns.ac.id on Monday (25/10/2021).
From the existing community issues, Khadijah Team introduced the milkfish bones innovation process into gelatin and used it as a composition of jelly candy. They also added local taste, kunyit asem. In the competition that was joined by around 247 participants from various universities in Indonesia, including ITB, Unair, Unesa, ITS, and UGM, the team successfully went through the Business Lean Canvas selection, business design selection, and the grand final.
“We are grateful and delighted from 247 teams in the competition from all universities in Indonesia, we could win 2nd place,” Faridah stated.
Khadijah Team hoped that there would be an implementation from their business design that optimized the processing of milkfish bones as side-products. The gelatin production from milkfish bones is also expected to grow and reduce import dependency.
NBPC 2021 is a competition to recover the Indonesian economy after the Covid-19 pandemic. The competition that had “Start Your Business With Your Creative and Innovative Ideas In The New Normal Era” as a theme had a culinary sub-theme selected by Khadijah Team and two other sub-themes, Creative Industry, Services, and Technology. Humas UNS
Reporter: Rangga Pangestu Adji
Editor: Dwi Hastuti