The Community Service Team (Pengmas) of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia (FMIPA UI), chaired by Dr. Abinawanto, established the Sentul Koi Center in Bojong Koneng Village, Babakan Madang District, Sentul, Bogor.
The community service activities, which have been running since July 2019 until now, have received support from the Directorate of Research and Community Service of the University of Indonesia (DRPM UI), and the Pandu Cendekia Foundation and Bumi Kepanduan Sentul.
The Sentul Koi Center, created by the UI Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences community, provides facilities and a center for developing integrated koi fish cultivation, such as ponds managed jointly with local residents.
Abinawanto as the team leader together with members of the team, consisting of Wisnu Wardhana and Retno Lestari who are lecturers in the biology department, along with laboratory assistant Taryana, and 20 students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UI, are trying to empower the community in an integrated koi fish cultivation development program by holding training starting from selecting parents, spawning, rearing, making, to developing feed based on local wisdom.
The cloi fish spawning training activity at Bumi Kepanduan Sentul (BKS) is the initial stage of the entire series of programs, involving active participation from the surrounding community.
It is hoped that this program, which involves the community, including youth and local community institutions, will be able to become an alternative model for good community development and empowerment.
The location of Bojong Koneng Village, which is close to the Sentul City Tourism area, opens up economic prospects for the community when it develops in the future.
“The establishment of the Sentul Koi Center is aimed at utilizing land to make it more productive, because koi cultivation has high economic value so it can improve the economy of the Bojong Koneng Village community,” said Head of the FMIPA UI Community Service Team, Abinawanto, in a written statement from UI Public Relations, Thursday, November 28, 2019.
“With promising marketing prospects and the high economic value of Koi fish, the Sentul Koi Center can become a reliable source of livelihood for the local community from an economic perspective.
