BBPP Batu Kembangkan dan Manfaatkan Biogas Hadapi MEA 2015
Indonesian Livestock Training Center in Batu Malang of East Java
Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Malang, Jawa Timur (B2B) - Energi terbarukan berupa biogas yang dikembangkan oleh Balai Besar Pelatihan Peternakan (BBPP) Batu di Malang, Jawa Timur kini dimanfaatkan sebagai energi alternatif, sehingga sebagian besar mobil dinas di BBPP Batu memanfaatkan biogas sebagai pengganti bahan bakar minyak (BBM) berupa premium maupun pertamax.
Kepala BBPP Batu, Rudy Rawendra mengatakan pengembangan dan pemanfaatan biogas sebagai alternatif BBM juga menjadi perhatian utama tim khusus dari Kementerian Luar Negeri RI (Kemenlu) saat meninjau BBPP Batu belum lama ini.
Rudy Rawendra menambahkan, tim dari Direktorat Kerjasama Teknik Kemenlu meninjau kesiapan penyelenggaraan pelatihan internasional bidang pertanian dalam kerangka Kerjasama Selatan Selatan, dan juga memantau kesiapan BBPP Batu menghadapi Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN 2015.
"Dalam kunjungan tersebut, tim dari Kemenlu yang dipimpin fungsional diplomat melakukan survei untuk melihat kesiapan sarana dan prasarana BBPP Batu untuk melaksanakan pelatihan bertaraf internasional selama tahun ini. Mereka meninjau mulai dari fasilitas prasarana pelatihan, asrama, perangkat multimedia, fasilitas olahraga hingga ke kandang ternak dan lahan praktik," kata Rudy Rawendra yang didampingi Kepala Bagian Evaluasi dan Pelaporan di Badan Penyuluhan dan Pengembangan Sumber Daya Manusia Pertanian (BPPSDMP) Kementerian Pertanian, Supriyadi.
Dia menambahkan, kesiapan BBPP Batu menghadapi MEA 2015 tidak terlepas dari kiprah unit pelaksana teknis dari BPPSDMP Kementan yang berdiri pada 1977, awalnya bernama Regional Dairy Training Centre (RDTC) atas kerjasama Pemerintah Indonesia dan Pemerintah Belanda dalam bidang pelatihan bidang peternakan dengan tenaga ahli dari Belanda.
Saat ini BBPP Batu ditunjang sarana utama berupa sembilan instalasi pemeliharaan hewan ternak, pengolahan dan pengujian susu, pengolahan daging, nutrisi dan pakan ternak, kesehatan hewan, reproduksi, dan pengolahan limbah. Sementara prasarana utama berupa delapan ruang kelas dengan daya tampung maksimal 40 orang hingga Aula Brizantha dengan kapasitas 400 orang.
Malang, Indonesia (B2B) - The renewable energy was developed by the Indonesian Livestock Training Center in Batu Malang of East Java province, locally known as the BBPP Batu, is now used as an alternative energy, so most of the official car of biogas as a fuel substitute, according the head of agency.
The Head of BBPP Batu, Rudy Rawendra said the development and utilization of biogas as an alternative fuel also attracts the attention of a special team of the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry while review the facilities and infrastructure in BBPP Batu recently.
Mr Rawendra added, the team of Technical Cooperation Directorate of the Foreign Ministry to review the readiness BBPP Batu organizing international training in agriculture within the framework of South-south Cooperation, and also monitors the readiness of BBPP Batu ahead of the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community.
"The team from the ministry led by functional diplomats conducted a survey to see the readiness of facilities and infrastructure for the training of international standard. They review training facilities, dormitories, multimedia devices, sports facilities to the livestock barns and land practices," Mr Rawendra said who was accompanied by the Head of Evaluation and Reporting of Education and Human Resource Development of Agriculture Board in the Agriculture Ministry, Supriyadi.
He added, readiness of BBPP Batu to face AEC 2015 related to the role of this agency, which was founded in 1977, who was named Regional Dairy Training Centre (RDTC) the results of the cooperation between Indonesia and the Dutch for training farms with experts from Holland.
Currently, BBPP Batu supported by the installations for livestock, processing and testing of milk, meat processing, nutrition and animal feed, animal health, reproduction, and sewage treatment. While major infrastructure include eight classrooms with a maximum capacity of 40 people, and a meeting room capacity of 400 people.
