A sea breeze blows through the skin of Eli Akim, one of the fishermen in Binyeri village, Biak Numfor district, Papua. Middle-aged men almost every night do molo-molo, one of the names of the Biak community to catch fish using arrows.
When sea water began to install dozens of small boats with engines, or Jhonson in the Biak language began leaving the land of Samber and Binyeri. The fishermen are ready to lower their nets and fishing eyes to bring home tens of kilograms of fresh fish. There are no tiger trawlers or fish explosive bombs in their boats, there are only a few rice and side dishes that they bring to eat when hungry arrives. The fishermen there still use traditional techniques in catching fish, therefore the ecosystem around the Biak sea is still maintained so the number of fish is still abundant and abundant.
Samber and Binyeri villages are now known as the villages of fishermen. Every day this village supplies tens of kilograms of fresh fish to meet the needs of fish in the markets of the city of Biak. There were ten groups of fishermen scattered in the two villages and one group of fishermen usually contained ten people. Samber and Binyeri villages were basically one village and were divided into two villages in 2013.
Thirty KKN-PPM UGM students were deployed to Samber and Binyeri villages. And one of their main programs is to teach the processing of natural resources. With marine products that are quite abundant, it is unfortunate if seafood is only sold to the market. Moreover, the price of fish is fairly volatile in the market, so other methods are needed to increase the selling price of marine products obtained. UGM KKN students together with the Biak City Fisheries Service tried to develop this sector in an effort to process fish into shredded meat.
Basically, in the village of Samber and Binyeri there has been one abon processing entrepreneur group, the Abon Aski Byak group. However, this group has not been able to run optimally because of managerial problems. They had vacuumed for two months and did not yet have a standard operational procedure (SOP) in product processing.
KKN students together with the local Fisheries Service tried to fix the matter by holding several socialization related to management systems and entrepreneurship and making SOPs.
SOPs made include production and sanitation (cleanliness). Cleanliness is the most important factor in this case to create high quality products. A good product is a product that can maintain quality from the production process to marketing. In addition to the production process and SOP, UGM KKN students also helped in marketing the abon through traditional markets to modern markets.
The existence of this activity is expected to improve the quality and creativity of the community to produce other products from marine products, so that the people of Samber and Binyeri are ready and able to compete in the market. Jou Suba!
(Source: https://muda.kompas.id/2018/07/28/tim-kkn-ugm-benahi-pengolahan-hasil-laut-di-biak-numfor/; translator: Harun Ardiansyah)