Beyond the bench!

We believe that the human practice should be sustainable and inspiring. To satisfy this vision requires creative and well-documented activities. Therefore, we made a booklet project and short documenter movie regarding our project. It was constructed from our public engagement activities and stakeholder interviews. Interviewing various stakeholders affects our wet lab topic, execution, as well as future application. We hope our work could serve as the educational and inspirational tool for Indonesian people.

Oceanography Expert Talks

Ivonne Milichristi Radjawane, M.Si,Ph.D.

We need to test our idea by interviewing stakeholders in micro-plastic research. We wanted to primarily know how micro-plastic forms in the perspective of Oceanography, followed by identifications of the most affected sectors. Dr. Ivonne Milichristi Radjawane has conducted researches on plastic debris in Pelabuhan Ratu Bay, Jakarta Bay, Bali Bay and Ambon Bay. She said, “There are two factors causing the plastic to accumulate in the sea, wave and current”. She also gave an insight into our project prospect, “75% of garbage thrown into the sea are plastic-based, Indonesia has been recently highlighted internationally as the second worst plastic polluters to the sea.”. According to her, the Indonesian government has been massively intensifying the work to reduce plastic pollution since then. “The government has a target to reduce plastic pollution up to 70% by the year 2020”, she said. She also suggests our team to conduct a survey on Jakarta Bay to see how the micro-plastics affect the locals there. “The research conducted in Makassar Strait proved micro-plastics inflict dreadful effects to marine lives, shown by guts of fish filled with micro-plastic fragments” she implied. Overall, she teaches us a valuable lesson for our project. Her perspective inspires us to develop an on-site application for our project.

Cidaun and Muara Angke

Fisherman Interview

Biological Safety Expert Talks

Ir. Sri Harjati Suhardi, Ph.D

Indonesia iGEM Booklet Vol. 1

Public engagement program gave us an overview about people awareness on synthetic biology. We are trying to increase the awareness by writing a booklet. The booklet was written in Bahasa to prevent a language barrier in the learning process. It is consist of the synthetic biology basic knowledge and our projects. The basic knowledge includes the definition of synthetic biology, part, device, and system. We also elaborate the previous, recent and future outlook of our iGEM projects. We put the past four years of ITB team human practice, dry lab, and wet lab in detail. It was our contribution to inspire another Indonesian team. The booklet then distributed to academician through an email.

Short Documenter

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