Innovation

Zanjabil Corporation (ZC), a micro-enterprise in the suburb of Bogor City, West Java, Indonesia is led and founded by Asadullah Al-Aziz. ZC focuses on go-green products, herbal drugs, organic fertilizer, as well as innovative alternative technologies and it sells its products through an online shop.

Zanjabil (taken from the Arabic language, meaning "Ginger") is the name of the micro-enterprise because their first product, the "Zanjabil Drink," has a material base of ginger. ZC established in 2009, with the Zanjabil Drink, functioning both as a healthy drink for stamina and a cough medicine made from Indonesian herbs. To grow the business, ZC also has become a reseller of organic fertilizer "NASA (Natural Nusantara)" and a reseller Nazava Water Filters (https://www.nazava.com/en/about?5). Asadullah thought someday he would make products besides the Zanjabil Drink.

In 2011, Asadullah made the emergency lamp using wasted glass and a 12.5cm height by 7.5 cm diameter wasted milk can. He called his lamp the “Pelita” before changing its name to “Zanjabil Nur” and selling them in 2012 through his online shop. In one month he sold 20 to 50 pieces of Zanjabil Nur.

From 2012 to 2014, Asadullah and his Zanjabil Corporation made unique, traditional handcrafted tinplates to empower their neighbourhood. He made mini buckets, mini trash cans with an ashtray, mini cracker jars and others. In this time, ZC became a distributor of Sundaya products and personal energy solutions which use solar cells (http://sundaya.com/about/).

In 2015, the local Headman visited Asadullah's house and asked him to join Bogor Innovation Technology Award. His presentation about the Zanjabil Nur emergency lamps that used waste cooking oil garnered the first runner-up award.

Inspiration

In 2011, Asadullah was inspired by Mass Transportation ran by the Bogor Government that using used cooking oil for fuel. He was thinking out loud about how to harness used cooking oil in households. He conducted his own experiment in 2011 and found that used cooking oil can be harnessed as a fuel for emergency lamp.

Instead of throwing away your used frying oil you can use as fuel for Zanjabil Nur. This is a cool lamp that is very unique and looks like an oil lantern.

Overall impact

Oil lamps are nothing new, in fact, they've existed for several thousand years. The oil lamps consumers regularly buy in the shops burn paraffin (kerosene) made from petroleum. Of course, you can make your own lamp using a glass jar or waste cans, but this produces a lot of very unpleasant smoke when it burns. Zanjabil Corporation has successfully created a more environmentally safe oil lamp that reuses the consumers waste vegetable oil.

Business benefit

• Consumers can reuse their used cooking oil for lamp
• To lower emissions of greenhouse gases
• To bring business to rural economics

Social and environmental benefit

• There is no emission of hazardous gases
• Used cooking oil available in every households.
• Friendly with the environment, so they do not cause global warming

Interview

Asadullah Al-Aziz, Director