Gibran Rakabuming Raka’s visit to UNS Innovation Festival was conducted after he led the International Volunteers Day ceremony in front of dr. Prakosa Rectorate Building UNS. Gibran was welcomed directly by the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, and Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation Affairs UNS, Prof. Kuncoro Diharjo.

The three went around the G.P.H Haryo Mataram Auditorium for around half an hour and talked to the students participating in the UNS Innovation Festival. Gibran Rakabuming Raka looked excited with the exhibited products and brought home a papaya-banana jelly “Jebismart.”

In an interview with uns.ac.id, Gibran Rakabuming Raka stated that he is interested in the lithium battery product developed by the Center of Excellence (PUI) Lithium Battery UNS. He also directly instructed the Chairman for Local Planning, Research, and Development to follow up the lithium battery production by UNS.

“It was incredible, I saw many innovative products from UNS students, and the one that stands out the most is the Lithium Battery,” Gibran Rakabuming Raka stated. He also added that he would synergize this product with Solo Technopark. “Innovation like this, if we do not guard, it will be a pity for the innovator. And it could benefit Solo,” he added.

Prof. Jamal thanked Gibran Rakabuming Raka for reviewing the Lithium Battery products from UNS and other innovative products from UNS students. He stated that UNS Innovation Festival provides room for innovation development, especially for PUI Lithium Battery UNS, PUI Center for Fintech and Banking UNS, and PUI Javanologi UNS.

“Congratulation to all that this is incredible and innovative. For lithium battery, we have used for electric bicycle in UNS area. This is very positive in reducing emissions,” Prof. Jamal stated.

UNS Held UNS Innovation Festival

UNS Innovation Festival, attended by Gibran Rakabuming Raka, is an exhibition initiated by the Directorate of Innovation and Downstreaming UNS. The exhibition was held to assist creative economy entrepreneurs in recovering and developing their business after easing community activities limitations during the Covid-19 pandemic. UNS Innovation Festival was held on 10-14 December 2021 in G.P.H Haryo Mataram Auditorium UNS and The Royal Surakarta Heritage, and online through the Zoom Cloud Meeting.

UNS collaborated with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (Kemenparekraf) RI, Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) RI, Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) RI, and Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) RI. UNS also collaborated with Indonesia Direct and the Association for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Indonesia (AKUMANDIRI). Humas UNS

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The PHP2D Himatika FMIPA UNS Team Leader, Bayu Purboutomo, explained that the mushroom potential in Jatirejo Village is overabundant, but the majority of farmers sell their mushroom directly, while they could process the mushroom into various food products.

“Moreover, in the pandemic situation, many mushroom products cannot be stored for a long time without pre-processed,” Bayu Purboutomo explained to uns.ac.id team on Wednesday (24/11/2021).

Considering the large post-harvest potential of the mushroom, the Team proposed an upstream to downstream program for mushroom production that consists of pre-processing of mushrooms into processed products to product marketing training. The Team also developed the baglog wastes into organic fertilizer. Some of the already implemented programs are mushroom processing into crispy mushrooms in Mungon-Mojodipo Hamlet, Jatirejo Village. This program was proposed to PHP2D 2021 and was started with socialization on working capital lending from PT. BKK Jawa Tengah branch Karanganyar.

The mushroom processing process could increase local people’s income, while the socialization aims to explain various services provided by PT. BKK Jawa Tengah that support local people’s innovation in the mushroom processing industry. PHP2D Himatika FMIPA UNS Team also conducted the fertilizer production training from baglog in an online program through the Zoom Meeting platform in the same hamlet. Both processing and fertilizer production training was attended by the mushroom farmers group and program implementing team.

The fertilizer production training was opened with an explanation on mushroom cultivation dan organic fertilizer production by the Agricultural and Fishery Office of Karanganyar District represented by Feriana Dwi Kurniawati, S.P., M.Si. In this socialization, the office shared that Karanganyar District has a program to assist and facility for farmers through her office. The training also educates the local people on the environmental impact of mushroom cultivation and empower them to produce fertilizer from baglog.

After the training programs that took around five months, the Team launched Jare Jamur product on Sunday (21/11/2021) in Jatirejo Village Hall under the theme of “Kula Nuwun Jatirejo: Launching Produk Jare Jamur” (Excuse Me Jatirejo: Launching of Jare Jamur Product). The grand closing event started with product introduction followed by handover from the Head of Mathematics Program to the Chief of Processing and fertilizer team of Jatirejo people. The launching was marked with a ribbon cutting ceremony by Jatirejo Village Chief Arry Widodo Yuliawan and the Head of Mathematics Program FMIPA UNS, Dr. Drs. Siswanto, M.Si. Humas UNS

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In his report, Prof. Dody stated that KRTI 2021 is participated by 163 teams from 61 universities in Indonesia in four divisions with different themes. The divisions are Racing Plane (RP), Fixed-Wing (FW), Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL), and Technology Development (TD). “This competition aims to facilitate students in creating in the aerodynamic field, especially flying robot. Besides as a means of building networking, information exchange, and educating the community, students, observers, researchers, and flying robot activists,” Prof. Dody reported.

Muslih, M.Si., the Head of Administration Subdivision Puspresnas, stated that KRTI is a part of Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) implementation that aims to encourage university students to be active in an academic while developing themselves as a creative, competitive individual with strong characters. “KRTI is held to train university students on unmanned flying vehicles, which includes an assessment on configuration, control, data collection, flying parameters, observation, mapping, and delivery of packages in a location or vertical building,” he added.

In his opening remark, the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, appreciated Kemendikbudristek’s trust towards the Faculty of Engineering (FT) UNS as host and managing committee of KRTI 2021. “UNS is committed to always providing the best services for the success of unmanned vehicle or KRTI contest from 15-20 November 2021. Welcome and have a fair competition, 163 teams from 61 universities in Sumatera, Batam, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi, to Maluku Utara,” Prof. Jamal said.

In the next five days, all 163 teams will compete in the annual contest held by Puspresnas. Besides hosting the contest, UNS also participated in the competition through its representatives from the Bengawan UV team, who succeeded in participating in the final round in all four divisions. Humas UNS

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Segorogunung Village has potential in tourism and agricultural sectors, with tourism sectors well known among visitors. Tourism development requires supporting sectors such as culinary and souvenirs. Segorogunung Village potential that could be developed such as chayote. However, low creativity and innovation lead to a low-profit margin for the local community. Therefore, as an implementation of Higher Education Tri Dharma through community service and assisting local people in developing their local potential, the Diploma Program (D-3) of Agribusiness Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta in Student Association in Diploma Program of Agribusiness (Gamagrita) conducted empowerment program that focuses on local community business skills upgrade.

The program was implemented under the Rural Community Empowerment Program (P2MD) funded by the Directorate General of Vocational and Professional Higher Education Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) and the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka Program (MBKM) by directly assisting community members and develop students’ skills. In the implementation, the Team collaborated with the rural government, village-owned business (BUMDes) Mustika Lawu, and Women Farmers Group (KWT) Mawar. In five months, the Team has conducted diverse activities, such as “Scale-Up Local Rural Production Supporting Segorogunung Tourism Destination” training, chayote processing into chayote chips, risoles, brownies, and wingko, assistance in development progress and solution for issues that arise, and branding through packaging under “Sechi” brand.

The Team also established the Agrilawu Center as a center for incubation and sales of Segorogunung excellent products and tourism destination that provides photo spots with a “millennial colorful” theme. The center was officially opened and introduced on Thursday (11/11/2021), located south of the Segorogunung football field. The opening ceremony was attended by Ngargoyoso Subdistrict Chief Wahyu Agus Pramono, S.S.T.P., who appreciated the efforts made by the Team. “Thank you to Universitas Sebelas Maret academic members for helping in the development of Segorogunung Village. Hopefully, this event does not stop here, but could continue and develop,” he stated.

The ceremony was also attended by the representative from the Tourism, Youth, and Sports Office of Karanganyar District, Sarno S.Kar., as the Head of Tourism Marketing Development, who also welcomed the program and considered it to be in line with Karanganyar tourism vision in 2030. “We support this program as a small step in achieving Karanganyar tourism vision in 2030,” he stated.

Another appreciation was shared by the Dean of Vocational School UNS, Drs. Santoso Tri Hananto, M.Acc., Ak., showed his gratefulness for the success in P2MD program implementation. He also mentioned that collaboration among other programs is necessary for community development efforts. “So that, the output could be diverse and reach various elements of the rural community,” he added.

The Team also received thanks from Segorogunung Village Chief, Tri Harjono, S.Sos., for selecting his village as a community service location. “Thank you to P2MD Gamagrita Team led by Mbak Hilda and supervisor for helping this village development to be more advanced and independent in the future,” he said in his opening remark.

Hilda Sekar Wulandari, as Team Leader, also thanked all parties who helped her Team in implementing their programs. She also mentioned that she learned many things during the process. According to Rysca Indreswari, S.Pt., M.Si., as a team supervisor, the program is an appropriate means of knowledge transfer and implementation of what students learn because, as an agent of change, students need to observe and solve issues in the community.

In the opening ceremony, SV UNS also signed an agreement of collaboration with Segorogunung Village as assisted village and community service site for students. The event was also livened up by Afifah Nuha Prasiswi who sang modern Javanese songs. Humas UNS

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“The pink color in the soap is the result of strawberry extract as the main ingredient,” Khairum explained on Thursday (11/11/2021).

Although competing with many teams from other universities, the team did not give up and tried their best and wanted to see the result of their hard works. The team is delighted with the result and appreciates team works that they kept to the end of the competition. It is possible that the team will participate in more competition better in the future with a more innovative business idea. The team also considers their business sustainability to benefit the community. To the uns.ac.id, Khairum explained that the organic soap idea was developed due to its practicality.

“This business plan has a great opportunity to be implemented. Our team is preparing the realistic sustainability of this business and expect supports from the surrounding community,” Khairum said.

Enotech 2021 competition was held by the Student Association in Agricultural Industry Engineering (Himatirta) Faculty of Agricultural Engineering (FTP) Universitas Jember (Unej) that has two sub-competition, business plan, and national poster competition. The work submitted to the business plan competition by UNS Student titled “Develop Competitive Agropreneur Generation in Facing National Economics Challenges during the Pandemic”. Humas UNS

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Since mid-March 2020, Indonesia has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, which undoubtedly affected all businesses in the country, including culinary businesses. Culinary businesses in Surakarta reported a 60% drop in sales at the beginning of the pandemic. Various efforts have been taken to survive the pandemic, from intensifying online marketing to innovating products to meet market demands.

During the pandemic, the demands for frozen foods increased significantly. The product provides ease for the community in preparing the foods and increases the shelf life of the food products, making it a practical food stock. This opportunity is captured by the food businesses, including the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Solo Raya in Komunitas Solo Kuliner (Solo Culinary Community), who created various frozen food products such as frozen sosis solo, frozen bakso, frozen empek-empek, and frozen gethuk. However, frozen products fall under the high-risk product category that requires appropriate handling, such as strict temperature control from the production process and the distribution process to reach consumers. The safety of this product depends on temperature control during the distribution and storage stages.

Most SMEs that produce frozen foods had not understood that their product had a high risk when proper handling and production process were not met. The growing trend of frozen food production among SMEs creates concern if the distribution is not monitored. The Food Safety dan Biotechnology Research Group of Food Technology Program Faculty of Agriculture (FP) UNS captured this issue and conduct socialization on frozen food safety and registering for frozen food permits for the SMEs in Komunitas Solo Kuliner Sejahtera.

The event was held online through the Zoom Meeting Platform and offline in the Solo Kuliner Sejahtera office on 8 July 2021. Two speakers were invited to the event; Ardhea Mustika Sari, S.T.P., M.Sc from Food Safety and Biotechnology Research Group of Food Technology Program UNS delivered safe frozen food processing materials and RR. Tri Novitarini, S.T.P from LOKA POM Surakarta, delivered material on the benefits of having an MD permit and the procedure to apply for an MD distribution permit for SMEs. This socialization is expected to improve SMEs’ comprehension of the importance of safety frozen food products and increase their awareness of the importance of distribution permits. The significant impact of the program is building a monitoring system for SMEs’ frozen food distribution and improve people’s trust in selecting SMEs products. (*)

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