FKIP – Sebelas Maret University (UNS) Surakarta students managed to get a brilliant achievement at the international level in the Indonesia International Applied Science Project Olympiad (I2ASP0) activity which was held offline in Surabaya. The achievements of the UNS students were the gold medal in the waste treatment category and a special award from the Indonesian Educator Achievement Foundation (YPPI). Meanwhile, the UNS students were Dji Hanafit from the 2018 Mechanical Engineering Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (FKIP), Fatata A’izza Rosyada from the 2018 Mathematics Study Program, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA), Rakel Junetty from the 2018 Mathematics Study Program. Mathematics 2018 FMIPA, and Millenia Trias Puspa Rukmi from Chemistry 2018 FMIPA Study Program.

The competition which was held on Saturday-Wednesday (11-15/12/2021) was participated by 410 teams from 14 countries. This activity was carried out in order to facilitate research results, as well as innovations of young researchers. This competition was a collaboration between the Indonesian Young Scientist Association (IYSA) and the Actuarial Department of the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS). Dji Hanafit, the team leader, explained that the competition process was long, including registration, collection of papers, posters, and slides, preparation of booth set ups and research products, judging, presentations, and announcements.

“The competition process starts with the collection of paper, posters and ppt. Then wait for the announcement or LoA. After that, they went to Surabaya for the competition. The competition starts with the preparation of the booth set up and research products. The second day is a judging. On the third day, our team had the opportunity to present their work in the invention talk event, and the last day was an awarding activity,” explained Dji in an interview with the fkip.uns.ac.id team.

Dji explained that the work of his team that was contested in this activity was called Green-Ma, namely the use of a biofilter and manganese green sand as a tofu liquid waste filtration system.

“The background of making the Green-Ma tool is seeing the social conditions in the area where I am KKN (Real Work College). The condition that occurs is that the tofu liquid waste is dumped into the river directly. In fact, tofu liquid waste contains a fairly dangerous content if it is disposed of without going through filtration, so we want to make a tool that can filter tofu liquid waste before it is dumped into the river,” said Dji.

Dji also shared his impression of winning this competition.

“My team and I feel grateful for this achievement and feel happy, because this is the first offline competition during the pandemic,” continued Dji.

At the end of the interview, Dji also expressed his hopes.

“We hope that the work we are researching can continue to develop and can be useful for the tofu industry in general,” Dji concluded.

Reporter: Akhmad Mukhibun
Editor: Zalfaa Azalia Pursita

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