Preface

Abstract

First of all, we are very happy for the success of first international conference on Food and Bio-industry. We would like to thank to all the committees and parties involved so the conference could succeed well. The theme of the conference is “Indonesia Towards Leading Agro-Industry in Local Wisdom based Food and Bio-energy Sovereignty”. The conference was held in Puri Setiabudhi Residence, Bandung west Java, Indonesia on 29-30 July 2019. The invited speakers from Indonesia and also from abroad contributed and shared their valuable opinions made the conference interesting and valuable to all participants. It was around 250 participants attended the conference mainly from Indonesia and some from abroad like Malaysia, Singapore, Philippine, Vietnam, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The participants background varied from lecturer, researcher, government, businessman and studentThe conference is aimed to explore and share the recent development in food science technology and agro-industrial technology field and its contribution to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The international conference was the collaboration between Indonesian Food Technologist Association (PATPI) and Indonesian Agro-Industry Association (AGRIN). We are very grateful for the contribution from all host universities and institution like Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD), Universitas Pasundan (UNPAS), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Universitas Al-Ghifari, Universitas Garut, SAFE Network and JP Global Transtech.The conference took the concept of outdoor conference with the previous day had been filled with the visit to some places related to conference theme. The next day was filled with the plenary session and parallel session. There were more than 100 articles presented orally and poster. The topic were spread in two big sub-themes, food-science technology and agro-industrial technology. The selected articles were chosen to publish in the proceeding which Scopus indexed.Finally we hope this conference could be beneficial to all of us and see you again to the next conference with the same theme.