The principle of sustainability is consists of three main aspects, they are economics, social, and environments. Sustainable solution is something that encompass viewpoint of economist, sociologist, and ecologist. Our world today faced great problem that mainly caused by a chain called negative PARE chain. As population increases (P), activities will also increase (A), because of that resources depleted (R), and finally the environment is degraded (D). In order to seek the solution of the problem, our group focused on integration of the effective use of fossil fuel, alternative energy development, land use planning, environmental monitoring, and sustainability education for the society. As presented before, we believe that we should integrate those aspects to reach sustainability in a country. Our case study is Indonesia.

As a specialist of environmental engineering management, I could contribute to the environmental monitoring and society education aspect. Environmental monitoring is necessary to be established for every other sectors, they are including ambient air monitoring, emission of air pollutants, waste water effluent, water quality, and land use usage. This environmental monitoring is best when established nationally, so we need a national environmental monitoring network. There are many technologies and guidance available for environmental monitoring that ready to be applied. The problem in Indonesia is the human resources, we have monitoring stations already in big cities, but the regular operation is still far from good. It is because the government and public are not yet aware about the importance of knowing the country’s environment state, therefore experts that supervised monitoring activities also very few. I can be the supervising expert who focused on establishing Indonesia’s environmental monitoring network. But I realized that, the government and public support are very important yet not easy to obtain. First, we need to create a team of researchers from different background but belongs to some academic institiution. Then, after creating the team, we can propose the national environmental monitoring network establishment plant to the Ministry of Environment of Indonesia.

Besides, we still need to increase public awareness. The public won’t know the environmental monitoring network is important, if we don’t educate them. Therefore, society education is necessary. During PARE Program, we introduced to a creative environmental education place, named Hakkenzan EcoCatering. I think it’s best to educate society using creative approach, like creating Eco – Energy Park in the city. The Eco – Energy park shall be self sufficient in energy, using solar panels as energy sources. Beside, to educate people, this Eco – Energy park also shall exhibit prototypes of energy plants (windmill, wind turbine, microhydro) and other interactive education media.  The Eco – Energy park project is most likely started in the city of Bandung. City of Bandung has many park that are about to be renovated by the new mayor, Mr. Ridwan Kamil. He is very open to public ideas for renovation of the park, so that I can propose to create an Eco – Energy park as one of Bandung’s theme park.

Related to the masterplan, I would like to propose a research with the title “A Contingent Valuation Study for Bandung Eco-Energy Park: Evaluation of Willingness to Pay” to create environmental economics valuation of the plan.

University

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Bogor Agriculture University (IPB)

Name

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Muhammad Dailami

PARE ID No.

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PARE26-004

Group No.

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7

In our (group 7) master plan, we purpose to use waste and biomass as a sources of energy. We will use burnable waste to produce heat that can be used for running heat power plant. In order to reduce the infestation cost, we will combine waste with coal, so we can still use the coal power plan without develop new power plan. We choose waste because waste is one of energy resources that all Asia country have it. Also waste become problem for all country if that waste are not manage well. In order to develop good waste management, we purpose to use waste bank system. If in japan we throw waste we should pay, but in Indonesia, with waste bank, we will get many if we deposit our waste in waste bank. The waste bank management will recycle, or converted waste to other valuable stuff that can be sold. Besides that, burnable waste will be used for power plan to produce electricity.

For the biomass, we will use agriculture by product as biomass that can be converted to bioethanol by using microorganism like yeast. In bioethanol production, one importance part to apply that plan is the technology to convert biomass to bioethanol. The problem with this technology is in the pre-treatment of lignocellulose to remove the lignin and get hemicellulose and cellulose (delignification process). Usually, this process need to be done by acid or alkali treatment which can give environmental problem. The alternative way is using microorganism like fungi or bacteria to do that job. However, the microbe is need longtime to finish that job and this is causing expensive cost production of bioethanol. So we need to screen many microbe that can do delignification process quickly.

So, I am as biochemist, I can contribute to do research in order to search microbe that have high capability to do delignification. In addition, I also can contribute to increasing the technic to convert biomass to bioethanol. Increasing the number of bioethanol that produced by microbe etc. All of this kind of research can be done by biochemistry and biotechnology research. In order to achieve our master plan, I will purpose a research title: “Screening endogenous microbe from vary agriculture by product with high delignification capability”.

Lignocellulose in nature, usually destroy by endophyte microbe. Each sources of lignocellulose will have different type of microbe that responsible to destroy that lignocellulose. Each strain of microbe even if fungi or bacteria, they have different capability to do delignification lignocellulose. So, to get good microbe, we should search many entophyte microbe from many kind of plants. Indonesia has mega biodiversity of plants, it will give high opportunity also to get many kind of microbes. By evaluate the capability each microbe in each lignocellulose sources, we can investigate further on the microbe mechanism to do delignification and also investigate enzyme that is responsible for this process. If all of this information we can achieve, we can construct microbe that have very high capability to do delignification with genetic engineering.