MENTORING SESSION at UNIVERSITAS

ANDALAS
A Story and an Experience
Agenda

1 How we did it?

2 Meet the teams

3 What happened – what the team said?

4 Impression from UNAND

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HOW WE DID IT

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MEET-UP THE TEAMS

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Lawang Macademia aims at
empowering people with three type
of disabilities: deaf or hard of
hearing, intellectual disability and
physical disability during the
plantation and production process of
macadamia nut. This business involve
local school for children with special
need in Lawang, Matur, Agam
regency, local land owners and Mitra
Kerinci company as the supplier of
Macadamia Nut seed as well as
partner to export the product.
Organic Pangas Catfish - The group initiate their business idea of organic Pangas
Catfish using fish feed from organic waste material made from tofu pulp, used
vegetables, maggot and other ingredients. It is expected that the healthy Pangas
Catfish will be a breakthrough for international market for healthier food
Kulit Kerang Ajaib (Magic Clamshell)

Kulit Kerang Ajaib is a business that concerns on

environment sustainability. The business aims at
producing items from clamshell waste such as
lamps, bracelets, photo frames, etc. The main
production process which is related to social-
environmental concerns lies in the collection of
shellfish waste from seafood restaurants in the
city of Padang, then the shells are cleaned-up
and sorted according to size in order to produce
souvenirs, such as aesthetic lamp.
 4Nature

4Nature’s vision is “Zero Waste-Zero

Chemical” by their slogan "We Put Trust in
The Trash". The group’s three core
businesses are Organic Fertilizer, Urban
Farming and the last one is Plastic
Handicraft. The group believes that 4Nature
is a good solution for the problems that relate
to the environmental issues in Indonesia and
it is a good starting point.
 SRIWANGI

Citronella (fragrant lemon grass) waste which is the result of distillation of essential oils
if not managed will cause environmental pollution. This waste has the potential to be
used as animal feed, because it has a 7.00% protein content, 2.35% fat, energy 3.353.00
kkg / GE / kg, crude fiber 25.73%, ca 0.35%, P 0.14% and ash content 7.91%. The
nutritional content found in citronella waste shows that it can be used as animal feed.
Based on these problems, residues (in pulp form) that accumulate through proper
processing, has high nutritional value and potential to reduces the impact of
environmental pollution. Therefore, the group process this waste into animal feed in
the form of silage - a high-water fermented feed given to ruminant animals or used as
biofuel through anaerobic digestion.
WHAT HAPPENED – WHAT THE TEAMS
SAID
• Ran smoothly at the
beginning – but fastly
changing due to the pandemic
• Un-ideal situation –
circumstances
• WFH in UNAND, all facilities
closed-down
• Mentoring was then
conducted in an online mode
• Some members of the teams
are very difficult to be
contacted due to their remote
location which has very
limited internet access
• Re-adjusting the target for
further processes
• “we enjoy the mentoring, but sadly the
process was not sufficient enough – as
the pandemic arose”
• “We’ve been impelled to change our
mentoring strategy – due to the
condition. But we do understand that
that our mentors also have the same
problems as we have.”
• “The mentoring sessions were well
prepared and we do respect our
mentors”
• “Our lecture workloads have resulted
particular difficulties to match the time
for mentoring with our mentors. The
mentoring was always rescheduled”
• “We badly need the laboratory facility
in campus, but it was all closed.”
• “Then we realize that it is very difficult
to have the same commitments in
Impression from UNAND

• INSPIRE is a good project to cultivate the spirit for social

entrepreneurship among students
• INSPIRE’s methodological processes in disseminating
entrepreneurship to specific group of individuals could be replicated
elsewhere, especially in the developing countries.
• INSPIRE’s tight schedule – timeline – milestone –process – report
which are simultaneously combined with good
communication/interaction means high standard, and high standard
means high project quality.
• Contingency planning, however, needs to be previously considered
and prepared – as the project should re-arrange so many things due
to the COVID-19
• It would be good to have subsequent projects by using INSPIRE’s
project results as the basis.