Essential Oil Processed Products with Endemic Broom Plants
reported: Liu Setiawan
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Bangka, December 4, 2024/Indonesia Media – Entrepreneurship training (December 2-5) in the field of productive business skills in essential oil processing attended by around 30 people, was more directed at the use of basic ingredients, namely oil from the sapu-sapu tree which is an endemic plant of Bangka Belitung (Babel). “So far, people know essential oils as patchouli and gaharu. Massage oil, aromatherapy oil mixed with essential oils, now they are starting to use sapu-sapu,” an Atsiri processing business actor in Bangka Belitung, Paryandi told the Editors.
The broom tree that grows wild along the coast of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province, has great potential to encourage economic growth in the region and local communities after tin ore mining. The broom plant is one type of biodiversity that thrives in the Bangka Belitung Islands. This archipelago is also known as the world’s second largest tin ore producing province. The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) noted that Indonesia’s tin reserves reached 2.23 million tons of metal, and the largest in Bangka Belitung. “The raw materials are available in nature. When farmers harvest, the branches (broom) are processed, refined and oil comes out directly. Business actors in Bangka Belitung are only just testing. There is a formulation, for example to get the aroma, mixed with olive oil,” said Paryandi.
So far, the broom plant in Bangka Belitung has only been used by the community for brooms and bonsai plants. In fact, if distilled into essential oils, it has a high price because it is not only for perfume but has many uses and benefits. Seeing the potential of this broom plant, Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID) which is a BUMN Holding of the Indonesian Mining Industry whose members are PT ANTAM Tbk, PT Bukit Asam Tbk, PT Freeport Indonesia, PT Inalum (Persero), PT Timah Tbk and PT Vale Indonesia, in collaboration with the Bangka Belitung Islands Provincial Government and academics, will develop the essential oil industry. “Common essential oil mixtures, such as patchouli oil, cloves, nutmeg, eucalyptus, citronella, gaharu. For perfume, lavender, rose, jasmine. All types of spices can actually be processed (distilled) including pepper, galangal, turmeric,” said Paryandi. (LS/IM)
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