Microencapsulation of curcumin in jelly fig pectin was performed by the vacuum spray drying (VSD) technique. The VSD was advanced with a low inlet temperature of 80–90 °C and low pressure of 0.01 mPa. By the in situ cross-linking with multivalent calcium ions, jelly fig pectin produced stable curcumin encapsulated microparticles. The physiochemical characteristics of microparticles were thoroughly investigated. The results revealed that 0.75 w/w% of jelly fig pectin and inlet temperature of 90 °C could be feasible for obtaining curcumin microparticles. The VSD technique showed the best encapsulation efficiency and yield and loading efficiency was up to 91.56 ± 0.80%, 70.02 ± 1.96%, and 5.45 ± 0.14%, respectively. The curcumin was readily released into simulated gastrointestinal fluid with 95.34 ± 0.78% cumulative release in 24 h. The antioxidant activity was stable after being stored for six months and stored as a solution for seven days at room temperature before analysis. Hence, the VSD technique could be applicable for the microencapsulation of bioactive compounds such as curcumin to protect and use in the food/pharmaceutical industry.

Various efforts have been performed to improve the productivity in agricultural sector in Indonesia, such as applying pesticide to kill pests. The use of pesticide shows many drawbacks to the environment. Thus, it is necessary to substitute pesticides with biopesticides derived from natural resources, which is environmental friendly. Among the potential one is biopesticide produced from durian peel waste. Durian peel is the abundant local waste in Gunungpati, Semarang, Indonesia since this area is the durian plantation center. To create the added value on this waste, a community empowerment project was conducted through the production of biopesticide from durian peel. This project increased the community's skill in waste conversion into valuable product, support the waste management, and improve the application of eco-friendly biopesticide.

Indonesia sebagai negara agraris, sebagian penduduk Indonesia bermata pencaharian di bidang pertanian. Pada umumnya, masyarakat menggunakan pestisida untuk membasmi hama. Karena tingginya penggunaan pestisida maka WHO (2016) menyatakan kasus keracunan pestisida mencapai 193.000 jiwa selama tahun 2012. Untuk mengatasi permasalahan tersebut, biopestisida menjadi bahan alternatif pengganti pestisida karena lebih aman dan ramah lingkungan. Salah satu bahan alam yang berpotensi sebagai biopestisida adalah kulit durian. Rata-rata produksi durian setiap tahunnya 780.032,8 ton/tahun. Limbah kulit durian memiliki berat 60-75% dengan kandungan senyawa metabolit sekunder relatif tinggi belum termanfaatkan secara maksimal. Senyawa tersebut dimanfaatkan sebagai antioksidan dan antimikroba dalam proses pembasmi hama. Biopestisida yang dikembangkan dengan metode sokletasi menghasilkan ekstrak berbentuk cair. Namun, hasil tersebut kurang efektif dan mudah teroksidasi sehingga menurunkan keefektifitasan kadar bahan aktif. Mengatasi masalah tersebut maka perlu dikembangkan inovasi dengan proses enkapsulasi. Artikel ini me-review pengembangan metode enkapsulasi. Metode yang dapat digunakan untuk enkapsulasi biopestisida yaitu ekstrusi, spray chilling dan spray drying. Metode spray drying lebih berpotensi mengenkapsulasi biopestisida dari kulit durian karena memiliki efisiensi enkapsulan lebih tinggi dan hampir mendekati 100%. Distribusi ukuran partikel yang dihasilkan tergolong nanoenkapsulan.Indonesia as an agrarian country, most of Indonesia's people work in agriculture. In general, people use pesticides to eradicate pests. Due to the high use of pesticides, WHO (2016) stated the case of pesticide poisoning reach 193,000 in 2012. To solve the problem, Biopesticide as an alternative of synthetic pesticides because it’s more safe and environmentally friendly. One of the natural ingredients that potentially as biopesticide is durian peel. The average durian production per year is 780,032.8 tons/year. Durian peels waste weighs 60-75% with a relatively high contains  of secondary metabolite  not yet fully utilized. It’s  used as antioxidants and antimicrobials in pesticides. Biopesticide is developed by socletation method. However, the results are less effective because it’s easily oxidized, so reduce the flavonoid efectiveness. To solve this problem, to be developed innovation with encapsulation process. This article reviews the development of encapsulation methods. Methods that can be used for biopesticide encapsulation are extrusion, spray chilling and spray drying. Spray drying method is more likely to encapsulate biopesticides because it has higher encapsulation efficiency and is close to 100%. The resulting particle size distribution is classified as nanocapsul.

Advancing the value of products derived from insect biomass is a potential way to increase the demand of processing insect as renewable and sustainable resources. Among several species of insect, black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) is promising biomass source because of its favorable characteristics such as easy cultivation, fast-growing, and worldwide distribution. One problem that could limit the development of insect-based bioproduct is the low market price and displeasing uses for edible food. To overcome this problem, value-added product development is necessary to carried out. Thus, establish an antifungal lotion using extracted materials from BSFL biomass was discussed in this report followed by the economic evaluation and sensitivity analysis. The result reveal that equipment availability in market and raw material readiness espouse the production expediency. From the economic aspect, the direct fixed capital cost (DFC) for a plant of this capacity is around US$3.6 million, or approximately 6 times the total equipment cost. Thus, the net profitability will remain stable even the market price of BSFL might fluctuate in the range of 20%. In contrary, the change in main product price was impactful to the rate of return (ROI), internal rate of return (IRR) and, payback time (PBT) value. The overall result suggests that this project is worthy to being built.