InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Ihzra Firman Nasrullah, the student of Anthropology of University of Airlangga (Unair) in 2022, successfully delivered good news for Indonesia in the international scale competition. He was the delegation in the Global Youth Innovation Summit (GYIS). It was a global scale – innovation forum that involved the youth from many backgrounds. It was conducted by the Global Youth in cooperation with University Malaya and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) on 15 - 18 July 2024 at IIUM.
To be participated in GYIS, Ihzra had to pass close selection that started from administration, national insight test, leaderless group discussion (LGD), and also interviews. After passing the tests, he and other four students were put in a group and should finish the tasks to create innovation project.
The group successfully created an innovation that was called Palm, Oil, Waste, Energy (POWER). It was about the idea to take advantages on palm oil waste from empty bunches as the media to keep power or battery. Ihzra said that palm oil waste would have lots of potential that the people did not know about. One example is that as a component to keep energy. The project was the same with some points in the sustainable development goal (SDGs), such as, the 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 13th, and 17th points.
“East Kalimantan is one of many palm oil waste producers in Indonesia. We got the initiative to develop the initiative. It started from palm oil wastes in our surroundings. It was researched. If the stakeholders support it, we would plan to directly develop it in East Kalimantan,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of Unair, Tuesday (27/8/2024).
In its process, the group did not do smoothly. He once said the challenges about the communication in the group when starting the project. To solve it, they decided to reinforce their bonds online. It was running twice of three times a week.
Ihzra also said even though their study background was from Anthropology, it was not fully the same with the project in science and technology – base. Ecology Anthropology where he studied at, would help the team understand how the innovation could be integrated with social and cultural context in the society. This confirm that their innovation would be still relevant and sustainable to deliver answers about environmental issues.
The collaboration and hard work in his team paid off. The group successfully got two achievements as the first rank in SDGs presentation category and the second rank as the best team. The achievements would be the proofs that by good cooperation, every challenge would get the solution and get innovation that would be useful for the people. (T2)
