The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) signed a memorandum of understanding (Mou) with the Bambu Lestari Foundation, in an effort to empower the bamboo industry from upstream to downstream on the basis of a people's economy and circular economy.<\/p>\n
The MoU was signed by Head of Community Economic Empowerment Agency of Kadin Indonesia, Bambang Brodjonegoro and Chairwoman of the Bambu Lestari Foundation, Monica Tanuhandaru, in Jakarta (12\/6\/2023).<\/p>\n
Bambang Brodjonegoro said this step was an effort to promote bamboo as a people's plant. Which, then can be further processed into various kinds of products and energy sources.<\/p>\n
\"The most important thing is that every time bamboo is used, it is bamboo that is actually cultivated or developed by the community itself,\" said Bambang.<\/p>\n
He explained that this step would start from the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) region, where the Bambu Lestari Foundation already has considerable activity in the industry of using bamboo as a production material.<\/p>\n
They are said to be used to channeling bamboo that is planted by the community and which is ready to be harvested, to be used as raw material for a production such as for making bicycles.<\/p>\n
\"With this MoU, we are trying to create an ecosystem from the bamboo economy in Indonesia, which we started from NTT,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Regarding how big the potential of bamboo itself is in developing a people-based economy, Bambang said that the potential is huge. In fact, the United States, which already has its own market trend in the form of bicycle products made of bamboo, actually doesn't actually have a source of raw material for bamboo itself.<\/p>\n
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