Ihak Sumardi
The ex-mining excavated land in Seluang River, Samboja District, Kutai Kartanegara Regency, is currently unproductive and requires rehabilitation efforts. Bamboo was chosen as a suitable plant for land restoration because it has a strong root system, the ability to grow in less fertile soil conditions, and high economic value. This training aims to teach local communities about bamboo cultivation and processing, in order to increase economic prosperity and improve environmental conditions.
This training aims to: provide an understanding of the types of bamboo, their benefits, and appropriate cultivation techniques as well as teaching techniques planting, maintaining and processing bamboo into commercial products. Targeting community participants around Sungai Seluang sub-district, Samboja-Luati Kartanegara sub-district.
Training is carried out with two main activities, namely theory in the classroom and direct practice in the field. The theory provided includes an understanding of bamboo types, the economic potential of bamboo, bamboo planting techniques and bamboo preservation techniques. Meanwhile, practices are carried out regarding planting bamboo in former coal mines. Training on preserving and planting commercial bamboo in Sungai Seluang, Kec. Samboja, Kab. Kutai Kartanegara, is the first step to convert ex-mining land into valuable resources. With the knowledge and skills obtained from this training, the community is expected to be able to develop sustainable businesses, improve economic prosperity, and support local environmental restoration efforts.
"1. Increase Knowledge and Skills: Provide basic knowledge and technical skills to participants regarding bamboo cultivation and processing. 2. Use of Ex-Mining Land: Encourage the use of unproductive ex-mining land to become sustainable bamboo cultivation land. 3. Increasing the Local Economy: Increasing community income through the development of commercial bamboo products."
"The benefits of this activity for the community include: - The community will have technical skills in bamboo cultivation and processing, especially preservation, - Communities can use ex-mining land to be used productively for bamboo cultivation. - The community has alternative uses for bamboo, which until now has been considered a weed and is not useful as an item that has economic value. Benefits for KK development include: - Have experience applying knowledge, especially bamboo cultivation and bamboo processing directly in the field - Identifying bamboo development problems in the field so that they become part of the study and research for the KK community Benefits for FS: Contribute to the introduction of FS in East Kalimantan, especially the contribution of FS in the field of biological development Benefits for ITB: Providing valuable experience for lecturers and institutions in developing skills that can be widely applied Meanwhile for Indonesia, introducing bamboo resources as a renewable resource as a substitute for wood will reduce the level of forest destruction and restore ex-mining land. In general, increasing carbon uptake thereby reducing efforts to reduce climate change"