Students of Food Technology at Institut Teknologi Sumatera (ITERA) have routine field visit activities every year. Students have field visits with the purpose so they can directly know the application of Food Technology in various places, starting from Food industry, agencies, or UMKM. Field visits are carried out by Students in their fourth semester, where on this occasion they are Students of TP Angkatan 2022. Field visits began on May 27 to May 30, 2024. Students are divided into three buses that will visit the same or different places.
The first day, namely May 27, Students conducted visits to several Food industries or agencies in Lampung Province, such as UMKM of fish cracker Nona Pesisir, PT Coca Cola Amatil Indonesia, PT. Siger Jaya Abadi, Agency for Standardization and Industrial Services (BSPJI) and Food and Drug Processing Agency (BPOM).
Students who conducted the visit to UMKM of fish cracker Nona Pesisir received information about the making of fish cracker from the ingredients to the packing process, besides that Students also directly felt the frying process of the cracker until it can be consumed again. The Students followed the activity enthusiastically because they could directly taste the fried cracker. At the time of visiting PT. Coca Cola, the Students were gathered first in the visit auditorium to get material first about the company which included the company’s history, regional mapping for PT Coca Cola product distribution, and so on. Then the Students were invited to walk around the factory environment which includes from the product production place, the large quantity product storage place, to the wastewater management place resulting from the factory production. When visiting PT. Siger Jaya Abadi, the Students were given the opportunity to directly see the production process of the company’s processed product, namely canned shrimp, in this production process the Students could see there are several stages carried out to make ready-to-eat products with various production methods and packaging systems. At the time of visiting BPOM, the activity started with a seminar and was continued with the introduction of rooms and testing equipment in BPOM, as well as several laboratories that are used to carry out sample tests such as nutrition chemistry laboratory and microbiology laboratory. At BSPJI, the Students of Food Technology at Institut Teknologi Sumatera (ITERA) were invited to see each building that has various types of testing rooms, for example the instrument test room and calibration test room, in the introduction of the test room it is also explained in detail regarding the room function and equipment used to carry out tests.
The next day, namely May 28, Students continued their industrial visits to West Java Province which was divided into several places, namely PT. Ajinomoto, PT. Nippon Indosari Corpindo Tbk. (Sari Roti) and PT. Yoyic Dairy Indonesia. At the time of visiting PT. Ajinomoto, Students were given the opportunity to see the production process of one Ajinomoto product, namely royco, and Students were given the opportunity to taste the difference in taste from several types of those products. After the series of visits was finished, Students entered the sensory test room, where in that room Students were given a dish in the form of chicken soup that was prepared for sensory testing of the taste of food that was not added with msg from Ajinomoto and that was added with msg of the Ajinomoto product. At the time of visiting Sari Roti, the Students were invited to see the production process of various types of processed biscuits, the visit to the production area was carried out from a separate place from the production place (not directly contacting the production place), namely on the visitor floor above which was connected to the auditorium. At PT. Yoyic, Students were given the opportunity to directly see the production process of ready-to-eat yoghurt and the production equipment used.
After visiting West Java, it was continued with a visit to Semarang, Central Java on May 29. The visit was conducted to PT. Nissin Food Indonesia. On this visit, Students got information about how to make several Nissin products, Students could directly see the stages of its production process starting from the raw material preparation stage to the product packaging stage. In the visit to this company there was also a special museum from PT Nissin which contains several replicas of processing machines used to produce various types of snacks.
The last visit was conducted to PT. Madu Baru Madukismo which is located in Yogyakarta on May 30. On this visit, it began with Students being given an explanation and direction regarding the Madukismo sugar company. After that, Students were directed to the factory where Madukismo sugar is made using the company’s special train, there Students got various information and knowledge about the sugarcane processing process which is processed into granulated sugar and how the packaging system carried out by the company by seeing it directly.
With the existence of this field visit, Students hope to be able to receive many ideas or inspiration in the development of Science and Food Technology
