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Yumma Superfoods

Nowadays, people are looking for professional opportunities in a world where each day is more competitive. Among all tasks in our daily live, we put off the most important ones such as spending time with family and giving our bodies the right fuel to keep going. The truth is that we dedicate less time to ourselves and keep pushing our bodies to their limit. We don't care about our body until it is too late and the process is irreversible. Among all useful activities we do daily there is one that we overlook: a healthy diet.

There is a saying, "you are what you eat"; I would add " you are what you eat and how you feel." If people eat unhealthy they will feel without energy and be too tired to get things done, because they are not getting the right essential nutrients. People often feel unmotivated, not because of their job, but because of the conditions generated around it.

After an exhaustive quest for a project that satisfies their needs, SioSi found the answer to help people have energy and perform well all day long by building a whole range of products that allow people to eat in a balanced and healthy way with the ease of being transported, stored, and consumed almost anywhere.

Yumma offers a variety of natural foods in powder that has been processed through a process known as lyophilization. They were granted a patent on a process already in the market, but with natural products with a high concentration of good fats, which makes them the only company able to escalate this process with any food.

Trash for Life

This Business Entity give the solution on how to manage trash.

They educate how to recycle the trash to add value to the products.

It also gives the opportunity for the community to increase their income.

QUALITY EDUCATION BY USING NATURE AS TEACHER AND SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

Unlike conventional educational concepts that are largely confined to classroom walls in which teaching and learning activities treat students as an object of a one-way transfer of knowledge, the concept of a nature school provides a learning and teaching experience (for students and also teachers) which pay attention to the essence of nature and use it as an infinite media of teaching and learning, with two-way communication between students and teachers.

Crowdfunding Healthcare

Indonesia has a population of more than 266 million people, home to hundreds of ethnic groups speaking many different languages. However, the gap between the poor and the rich is very huge and due to the very dense population healthcare is still limited in some remote areas. Although the government supports healthcare through its program of ownership of national healthcare insurance (BPJS), there are still many people who need immediate services but do not have national health insurance because of administrative or other reasons. WeCare.id exists as a civil support to the government program.

First Cooperative Saving Online in Indonesia

Sobatku is an online saving product at KSP SMS, which to open Sobatku Account with no need to come to the office, or doing face to face with the officer. This innovation is a breakthrough in Indonesia. As one of country with high percentage of society that do not have access to banking account (even do not have a saving account), this product will bring low income society to have a proper financial services.

Utilization of Narrow Yard for Productive Crop

PLN R and D (Puslitbang) together with BBP2TP (Balai Besar Pengkajian, Badan Litbang Pertanian or Center for Assessment, Agricultural Research) Agency conduct a program for people who live around PLN Puslitbang Mini Hydro area, in Megamendung Bogor to increase the utilization of their backyard in their house to be used for planting the productive crop that could be used for their own or to be sold in traditional market. They educate the people to plant trees then use it for their own or sell it to nearby traditional market.

Bring Farmers to New Level of Competitiveness

Agriculture sector is important for Indonesian people since it is contributing 14 percent of the total GDP. But still a lot of farmers are living poorly because of the lack of knowledge and intervention from the middleman who tricked the farmers so that they got paid way lower than the market price. 8villages, established in 2012, up until now is trying and developing their business model in order to help the farmers without gaining any direct profit from them. The innovation of their services are in the form of providing a community platform for interacting and sharing knowledge, providing direct "farmers to markets" platform, data collection for research and government needs, and providing funding access and payment services for farmers in Indonesia.

Social Trust Fund (STF) Program As a CSR Activity Together with Bank Muamalat and Dompet Dhuafa

As a pioneer and one of the leading financial institutions in Indonesia, Bank Muamalat intended to contribute or even to lead economic shariah growth in Indonesia. And this can only happen if we have sufficient and strong human capital who will play a significant role as shariah economists or shariah bankers. Bank Muamalat sets up a Social Trust Fund Program for economic empowerment of people in disaster areas, coastal areas, and rural and urban areas, especially marginal/densely populated areas, by providing them working capital with an easy, cheap and fast process.

Fixing The Social Problem Through Good Food

By providing healthy vegetables with less pesticide, Paprici actively support the “Zero Hunger” of SDG. By empowering the local farmer, it also supports the “Decent Work and Economic Growth” of SDG.

Empowering People Through Paguyuban Kampung Tenun Garut

Since ancient times, Garut has had a typical product of Tenun Ikat, but it was going into extinction due to the lack of proper management where the sales were not growing.

Hendar Rogesta, as the son of a weaver, is trying to revive Tenun Garut by importing raw materials and empowering the local people of Kampung Panawuan District Garut, who were originally unemployed, farmers and teenagers, and dropped out as craftsmen of weaving and tailors. He helps market the fabric so that the weaving products can keep on growing.

Bamboo

Papringan is no longer used as a village to dump garbage by local people, so the place is no longer dirty, smelly, and a source of disease for its surroundings. The business's effort in sharing knowledge, insight, and competence in processing bamboo into products with higher value is essential to create pride for the villagers.

Wind Becomes Our Clean Energy

Use new energy, clean energy to replace the traditional fossil energy. Converting wind energy into electricity to meet daily energy needs. Reduce the emission of carbon dioxide and pollution to achieve the purpose of energy saving and emission reduction.

Transforming School To Support Equality In Education

PT Apexindo Pratama Duta Tbk (“Apexindo”) help the transformation of SDN Saliki 001 from a school with poor infrastructure condition to become one of the winners of Lomba Sekolah Sehat in East Kalimantan province.

Partnership, a Mutual Benefit for a Better Life

The innovation is about a startup company who give their commitment to community by partnering, educating, assisting, developing and also work side by side with local coffee farmers (individually and/or group of farmers) in Manggarai, Flores to be able to produce high quality, premium coffee. The commitment given by the company is making the Farmers as their partner by buying their product in a fair price and all of this action is to give them a better life and a better future for their family.

CREATIVITY, INNOVATION, AND SOCIOPRENEURSHIP

OMG! Creative Consulting has the noble ideals to build a creative and innovative generation that fosters the sociopreneurship for the younger generation. By expanding the sociopreneurship movement throughout Indonesia is expected to contribute to the transition to a sustainable economy and sustainable development in Indonesia.

Appreciate High Quality and Uniqueness of Indonesian Coffee

As the number four coffee producers in the world, Indonesia has been supplying the worlds demand for coffee, with plantations spreading from Aceh to Papua. Each type of coffee has their own characteristics - both from bean shape, size, aroma and taste. The vast array of variety in each type, combined with diverse location and height of the plantation also yielded a wide diverse of tastes. Each region has different geographic characteristics, with different soil conditions, temperature and water quality. This created unique taste as each coffee has its own flavor note. Unfortunately, not many people know about this uniqueness.

One institution that strives to develop appreciation to Indonesian coffee is SCAI (Specialty Coffee Association of Indonesia). They have done efforts to improve the coffee quality, from the cultivation, post-harvest processing, to how to make a good cup of coffee. As one of the member of the SCAI, NoozKav Coffee has aimed to prove through its innovative business model and simple research and development program. Innovative in the sense of taking the role as a bridge between farmers and processors with the consumers.

The first step is how to get good products. This was done by educating the farmers on selection of the seeds, proper cultivation and harvest method. Processors will be guide to do best practices in order to get best quality raw material.

The second step is to communicate the feedback received from consumers to farmers and processors. Feedback on quality will be used as base for improvement while demand data will be used to determine the types of coffee that will be produced.

The combination does not only deliver good quality coffee to its consumers and preserve the variety of the Indonesian Coffee, but also improve farmers' welfare and empower conventional farmers to practice improvement and sustainable coffee farming technique.

Providing Better Milk from Grass to Glass for Indonesian People

The innovations that have been implemented by Frisian Flag Indonesia (‘FFI’) aim to enhance the quality of milk that produces by Local Dairy Farmers in Bandung, which located more than 180 km from the manufacturing site in Jakarta, and to ensure the sustainability milk supply. FFI fully support the local farmers by providing Milk Collection Point (MCP) and giving grant for implementing the Farmer 2 Farmer Program

Trash to Fashion from Waste to Style

Yanti involves her neighborhood, especially housewives in the area where she lives, to collect garbage bins in their houses and surroundings. He sorted out the organic waste processed into compost and the non-organic waste were sold to collectors. It turns out that plastic packaging does not sell for sale. The collectors only want to buy clear plastic, from mineral water bottle, plastic glass, cans, carton, and cardboard.

Luckily Yanti is appointed as a facilitator and cadre so she can attend waste processing training. Since 2007 equipped with a sewing machine loan, she started to make some crafts made of plastic waste. This housewives admitted her natural talent and her passion with the arts of her skill made her work. As a result, this homemade products had demand from consumers. Product introduction through exhibitions, some orders came from government, schools and companies.

Mangrove for the Driving of Economic Growth

Utilization of Mangrove not only for the main function but to support the economic growth through processed food and beverage products.

New Opportunities for Musicians

IMJ gives street musicians the chance to develop their musical ability and hone their talents. This lets them build careers as professionals and live better lives. The impact of IMJ is enjoyed by musicians and the public alike.