EDUCATION ON BIOCONVERSION TECHNIQUES FOR PURPLE BATATAS VAR IPOME TUBERS INTO GLUCOSE SYRUP AS AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SOLUTION FOR HOUSEWIVES IN SELANGOR MALAYSIA

Every lecturer has three obligations known as Tri Darma PT, namely Teaching, Research and Service. Based on this, the team of lecturers from the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Management and Accounting Study Program at the Indonesian Muslim University (UMI) Makassar implemented the third dharma, namely community service.

This team has carried out community service activities with the title: EDUCATION ON BIOCONVERSION TECHNIQUES FOR THE CONVERSION OF PURPLE BATATAS VAR IPOME TUBERS INTO GLUCOSE SYRUP AS AN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SOLUTION FOR HOUSEWIVES IN SELANGOR MALAYSIA.

Application of New Product innovation results: Glucose Syrup from Purple Sweet Potatoes, Appropriate Technology (TTG) Bioconversion, Purple Sweet Potato Product Diversification, Housewife Entrepreneurship Model and Innovative Products Based on Local Wisdom. This service activity received a service funding grant from the UMI Waqf Foundation through the UMI Community Service Institute (LPkM) for the 2025 budget year.

The team implementing International Community Service activities (PKM - International) is chaired by Dr.Fitriani Mandung, SE, MM, SS.ing, Kirana Ikhtiari, SE, M.Ak and Hj.Wahida Amra, SE, MM. As a team member, with the main focus on producing a small, household-based business model that can be run by housewives in Selangor Malaysia with low capital but broad market prospects.

Providing new business opportunities in the field of functional and healthy food, providing new skills to housewives, increasing family income by 80% through marketing glucose syrup and can encourage the growth of a local food-based creative economy. This service activity is divided into three stages, namely the first stage in the form of socialization and education which will be held on Thursday, August 28 2025.

The material provided includes understanding the potential of purple sweet potato as a raw material for diversified food products and explaining the basic principles of bioconversion of starch into glucose. This training and education will be held from 09.00 WITA until finished. The second stage continued with training activities as well as practical steps for making glucose syrup from purple sweet potatoes and direct practice of the glucose syrup bioconversion process which was carried out on Friday, August 29 2025.

And in the third stage, the PKM-International TEAM of FEB UMI Lecturers is still carrying out education on how to implement sanitation, food safety and product quality standards, how to develop business opportunities based on glucose syrup products at the household level and understand the product marketing process.

The impression from the Chair of the TIM, Dr.Fitriani Mandung, SE, MM, SS.Ing, is that participants are expected to be able to see market opportunities because they can directly improve the household economy. On this occasion, equipment assistance was also handed over to the wife of the Chairman of Mitra as a representative of Housewives in Selangor Malaysia.

Chairman of Sri Bayu Apartment Residents Association Partners, Mohd Sahar Bin Safari. expressed his appreciation for this activity. "We really appreciate this program and hope that similar activities can be carried out again with different products, because it is very useful in improving the economy of the people in Selangor Malaysia.

This activity is a concrete manifestation of UMI's commitment to supporting community economic improvement through international community service programs based on technology and innovation.