Abstract
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is one of the major driving factors for Indonesian economy, especially in food processing industries. The cassava-based industry is one type of food and beverage industry with chips as its major product. The limitations of knowledge caused their activities to only aim at pursuing economic benefits and ignoring the environmental balance. The most appropriate preventive method used, according to the characteristics of SMEs in Indonesia, is Cleaner Production. This study aims to reduce the risk of environmental pollution caused by the waste production of small chips industries by implementing cleaner production. The method used in this study is quick scanning by analyzing mass balance, energy, and utilities that aim to find an inefficient process to minimize losses. Implementation of cleaner production may include good housekeeping, reducing, and reusing. Based on the assessment of alternative eligibility criteria, the equipment modifications are the main factor in implementing cleaner production that drives the profits by providing efficiency of cutting as much as 80 percent and optimizes the profits into 57.62 kg in a month or 691.44 kg in a year. If the price of cassava chips is IDR 40,000 in a kg, then it would save IDR 27,657,600 in a year.
Highlights
Indonesia’s current economic structure is primarily focused on agriculture and industries which extract and harvest natural resources
This study aims to reduce the risk of environmental pollution caused by the waste production of small chips industries by implementing cleaner production
The process outputs from each of cassava chips unit operation were quantified in the following figure: 100 kg of cassava
Summary
Indonesia’s current economic structure is primarily focused on agriculture and industries which extract and harvest natural resources. There are only limited industries which focused on products with added value. There is a development gap between western and eastern parts of Indonesia. As a country consisting of thousands of islands, the Indonesian archipelago has a unique combination of economic with specific major islands or regions having its own strategic future role in achieving Indonesia vision. By taking into consideration these potentials and strategic roles of each major island, there are six corridors that have been identified as follows: Sumatra economic corridors, Java economic corridors, Kalimantan economic corridors, Sulawesi economic corridors, Bali-Nusa Tenggara economic corridors, and Papua-Kepulauan Maluku economic corridors (Coordinating Ministry For Economic Affairs, 2011)
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