Colorimetric Paper-Based Dual Indicator Label for Real-Time Monitoring of Fish Freshness.

Research Background: Fish freshness and quality monitoring are of high importance for consumers, retailers and fishing industry. Therefore, developing novel approaches that are simple, fast, non-destructive and inexpensive to monitor fish freshness in real time is of great value. One alternative is using Intelligent or smart packaging to monitor the freshness or conditions of packaged fish.

Exploring natural microbial resources for the discovery of anti-malarial compounds.

Microorganisms in nature are highly diverse biological resources, which can be explored for drug discovery. Some countries including Brazil, Columbia, Indonesia, China, and Mexico, which are blessed with geographical uniqueness with diverse climates and display remarkable megabiodiversity, potentially provide microorganismal resources for such exploitation. In this review, as an example of drug discovery campaigns against tropical parasitic diseases utilizing microorganisms from such a megabiodiversity country, we summarize our past and on-going activities toward discovery of new antimalarials.

Quantifying the economic benefit of standard on auto-electric stove for small medium enterprises in Indonesia.

One of the important issues in standard implementation is its economic impact. This is because the economic benefits of the standard implementation are intangible and difficult to be measured. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the economic benefit of standard implementation in Indonesian auto - electric stove for SME by using the economic benefit of standard (EBS) approach developed by ISO.

Economic valuation from direct use of mangrove forest restoration in Balikpapan Bay, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The mangrove forests in Balikpapan Bay, Indonesia, have been used as a source of livelihood for local community more than 150 years. Since the natural products of the mangrove forest, such as wood and seafood, are not able to meet the economic needs of the local community, some areas have been converted into brackish water ponds with traditional aquaculture systems. The growth of brackish water ponds over the last five decades has been identified as the main cause of ecosystem destruction.