Plastic waste in Indonesia, based on the data of the Association of IndustryÊ Indonesian Association (INAPLAS) and the Central Agency of Statistics (BPS) reached 64 million per year. A total of 32 million tons include a plastic waste thrown into the sea. For that, the government continues to implicate the reduction of disposable plastic discharging.
In Belitung, one of the UMKM is Purunea Eco Straw manufactures the basic straw of purun plant. The owner, Hartati (43) is inspired to lift the wild plant into a product that is worth adding and can be a solution to maintain environmental sustainability.
Wild plants that grow fertile on peatlands are originally used only for craft straps mat only. But after the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Sandiaga Uno found it in one of the tourist villages in Belitung, the plant rises the pamor and became the community's compound. The purun product is brought to the international kancah, when the excludes it in the United Nations General Shrimp podium.
The wild-growing purun plants around the swamps.
The work of conducting the drying process of purun plant by using the oven.
The selected purun plant became a straw from the fields around the river swamps in Belitung and three to four months. Purun is harvested in a way to be trimmed so that the rest can still grow and reused.
Mapping with her husband, since 2019-2020 conducts research to produce a quality straw of nature. To provide quality straws, Purunea Eco Straw pay attention to the production process from hulu to downstream.
Starting from the selection of raw materials, hygiene and packaging. Mapping using its parent modification goods for production equipment such as stoves, dryer machines and purun cutting tools.
The work measures the already dried purun plant for cutting process.
The work checks the purun suction to be packed.
Purunea Eco Straw currently employs 13 employees who are mothers around the average production of 10 thousand straws per day. The purun furniture is produced in two 50 and 100 content packaging, at Rp50,000-Rp 100,000.
Indonesia-made National Movement (BBI Office) according to Hartati is the form of government support to introduce potential SME products.
He hoped, Gernas BBI encourages Indonesian society to better love domestic-made products so that global communities will be more confident in the quality of Indonesian products.
The work of packing straws made by the basis of the plant puruh to market.
The visit observes the purun suction when the UMKM monkey at the Indonesia-made Bangga National Movement event (BBI Office) Bangka Belitung Light.
Photos and text : Fakhri Hermansyah
Sedotan of purun plant used The Well Belitung café.
Editor : Puspa Perwitasari
