Research

Indonesia has the largest area of ​​mangroves in the world (3.5 million Ha), represents more than one fifth of the world’s mangroves, with the highest species diversity in the world. Even so, report from the MMAF shows a fairly high rate of mangrove destruction, where 52% or 1,82 million Ha of Indonesia’s mangrove areas are in a damaged condition (KKP, 2020). On the other hand, the availability of standardized data on mangrove conditions in Indonesia is still a big challenge to resolve.

Good quality database surely provide enormous benefits, not only for mangrove management activities, but also for further research on mangrove ecosystems. For this purpose, collaboration between stakeholders is needed to be involved together in mangrove monitoring with standard tools. The involvement of stakeholders related to mangrove ecosystems such as academics, NGOs, local governments and conservation community groups will be an important part of the implementation of Citizen Science. Currently, P2O LIPI has developed MonMang, an Android-based application that simplifies mangrove monitoring activities. The various features in this application allow anyone from different background and level of knowledge to be actively involved in mangrove monitoring activities.

In order to improve UB’s academic community and mangrove stakeholders, on Friday, March 19, 2021, 14.00 – 16.00 WIB, Corect-RG and P2O LIPI carried out a webtraining entitled “Mangrove monitoring based on the Monmang application”. This activity was attended by 300 participants, with speaker from P2O LIPI: I Wayan Eka Dharmawan, M.Si, a mangrove researcher and the head of Monmang development team. This activity is part of the collaboration plan between FPIK UB and P2O LIPI, including mangrove monitoring based on Monmang, research related to mangrove and other activities, especially in the mangrove area of ​​East Java.

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Busan, South Korea (11/25/2019), lecturer of the FFMS UB Marine Sciences program, Ade Yamindago, S.Kel, MP, M.Sc delivered his research presentation at the 30th ASEAN-RoK Commemorative Summit attended by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

Ade Yamindago, S.Kel, MP, M.Sc who is currently completing doctoral education at the University of Science and Technology (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology) of South Korea, in the 30th ASEAN-RoK Commemorative Summit Summit, presented an analysis of the impact of new nanoparticle contaminants and drugs in aquatic animals, which affect the bacterial composition of associations and relationships between organisms and their associated bacteria, physiological disorders such as DNA and protein damage, cell death, oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress, infertility and sex reversal which result in decreased health, death and decline in aquatic animal populations.

The 30th ASEAN-RoK Commemorative Summit (Summit) Summit is a meeting between Indonesian research scientists in South Korea who are members of the Indonesian Research Association in South Korea (APIK).

This activity discussed three recommendations from Indonesian research scientists in South Korea to accelerate the progress of research and innovation in Indonesia towards Indonesia Gold 2045 through the establishment of the National Research University (URI), optimization of the role of the National Innovation Research Agency (BRIN) and collaboration between universities and industry to improve the quality of superior Indonesian human resources.

source: timesindonesia.co.id, fpik.ub.ac.id

Bali, 14-15 November 2019, CORECT – FFMS Universitas Brawijaya, CReSOS – Udayana University and Chiba University, held International Conference which focussed on climate change and sustainable environmental management to reduce global threats. This conference consists of three annual symposium, includes The Indonesian Japan Joint Scientific Symposium (IJJSS) 2019, 2th CORECT symposium – Brawijaya University and CEReS International Symposium – Chiba University.

The collaboration between Indonesian universities and Japan universities and sister universities are growing up. This collaboration creates academic and research collaboration among Indonesia universities and Japan universities in many areas.

IJJSS 2019 is the 9th symposium organized by FFMS UB and CReSOS UNUD. IJJSS is one of the collaborative implementations between Chiba University and FFMS UB and FKIP UNUD.

In this activity, Prof. Hiraoki Kuze as Director of Chiba University explained that the shifting of seasons, drought and floods has greatly affected the agriculture and maritime sectors. Various technological and multidisciplinary scientific  approaches are needed to find new breakthroughs to create a better life. Meanwhile, Prof. Josaphat Tetuko Sri Sumantyo, Head of Chiba University’s ) Josaphat  Remote Sensing Laboratory (JMRSL) explained about the development of a CP-SAR (Circularly Polarized-Synthetic Aperture Radar) system conducted by the JMRSL laboratory as a new breakthrough in remote sensing systems for environmental monitoring and disaster management. This technology is being developed by Prof. Josaphat and the JMRSL team at Chiba University, Japan.

This activity was attended by 200 researchers and academics from 13 countries. A total of 6 keynote speakers and 10 invited speakers were presented at this activity. Through the conference, it is expected to maintain strong relationships and collaborations between Universitas Brawijaya, Udayana University, and Chiba University both now and in the future.