Kukar's SME Turn Shrimp and Mangrove Waste into Profitable Snacks
- 04 Agt 2026 09:35 WIB
- Voice of Indonesia
Poin Utama
- Residents of Sepatin Village in Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, are improving household incomes while promoting environmental sustainability by processing shrimp waste and mangrove resources into marketable products.
- The initiative is led by the Mawar SME group through training and mentoring provided by the Ministry of Forestry’s Mangroves for Coastal Resilience (M4CR) program.
RRI.CO.ID, Samarinda - Addressing environmental problems while increasing household income is now being done at the same time by residents of Sepatin Village, Kutai Kartanegara (Kukar), East Kalimantan. Through processing shrimp heads and mangrove resources into high-quality products, the Mawar Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) has shown that environmental sustainability can go hand in hand with economic welfare.
The processed products are the result of training and mentoring initiated by the Ministry of Forestry. The program is carried out through Mangroves for Coastal Resilience (M4CR) under the Directorate General of Watershed Management and Forest Rehabilitation (PDASRH).
“Last year there was M4CR training in our village as an effort to make use of coastal natural resource potential. Our group also took part,” said Head of the Sepatin Village's Mawar SME group, Nur Aliyah, on Monday, August 3, 2026.
The training they attended focused on making shrimp crackers and shrimp paste from shrimp heads. It also included making various drinks from mangrove plants, which had previously gone unused and had once been treated as waste.
There were also processed mangrove fruit products developed from recipes learned in one of the training sessions her group attended, namely syrup and dodol, a traditional chewy sweet made from coconut or fruit puree.
“During the training, we were also challenged by the speakers to create recipe innovations based on the potential available in the village. So, some of us tried making syrup from mangrove fruit. Thank God, it worked and tasted good, so it is still being produced until now,” said Nur Aliyah, as quoted by Antara.
She described shrimp crackers as the group’s flagship product because they have many buyers. The market is not limited to Kutai Kartanegara and Samarinda, but has also reached other islands such as Sulawesi and Java.
“We are grateful that we can produce shrimp crackers and shrimp paste from shrimp heads that were previously unused, thereby adding economic value while reducing production waste. Mawar SME has also innovated by processing pedada mangrove fruit into syrup and dodol with a sweet and sour taste,” she said.
At present, 13 members of Mawar SME have started centralized production in one shared production house. The move was taken after each member previously produced goods independently from their own homes. ***
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