Food is an integral part of every culture. There is a lot of unexplored potential from Indonesian natural resources either for discovering the new and more efficient technique in biotechnology regarding the food producing and processing or for improving the food quality.
Diverse biodiversity and long history of ethnobotany in Indonesia provide a lot of potential for novel drug development. Traditional medicine needs to be tested and developed scientifically, following medical high standard, and made available for the market. Although cosmetic words often identical with make-up, however our daily life is embedded with various cosmetic, from soap to shampoo, deodorant to toothpaste. With the wake of natural lifestyle, there is a lot Indonesian tradition related to cosmetic from natural resource – ready to unearth and integrated with industrial and daily production.
One part of natural resource is genetic diversity of all living things, and again as mega-biodiversity country there is still a lot of homework to catalogue and asses the biodiversity of Indonesia through molecular research. And as biodiversity everywhere is facing extinction threat, genetic tools are one of the most effective tools to help to conserve them.
In past few years, Indonesia facing challenge of burned down forest due to Climate Change, El Nino and human activity. This multidimensional disaster not only caused major economic, social and environmental loss, but also released a huge carbon flux into the atmosphere, fueling up global warming. This relatively new field of research in Indonesia will help to tackle natural resource damage by fire disaster.
Department of Food Chemistry and Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria Experienced in food science, including food biotechnology, food chemistry, food microbiology, and food safety. One of his research focus is on antioxidant and preservation
Dean - Faculty of Biology, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia More than decades of experience in agricultural science, plant molecular genetics, plant breeding and plant biotechnology. Chairman of Indonesian Biology Consortium(KOBI)
Department head – Department of Geography – University of Oregon, USA Experienced in Fire Ecology and Paleoecology research in temperate forest of North America, and currently conducting research of fire ecology in Gunung Palung National Park, Kalimantan Barat, Indonesia.
Head of Avian Evolution Lab - National University of Singapore Experienced in the biodiversity formation, such as genetic differentiation and introgression, especially with bird as main model organism.
Head of Corporate Creative and Innovative of the Martha Tilaar Group, one of the largest natural beauty companies in Indonesia. Educated in Suffolk University and Harvard University in the States. He focuses the Group’s research activities in natural, organic, and halal products to bring the nation’s local heritage to the global market. Also active as a member of jury for government incentive for industry and academic at the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Indonesia.
