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THE NAVIGATOR
Guide to Honey, Pepper, and Fish Crackers of Bangka Belitung Archipelago
ANGIN Impact in collaboration with the Provincial Government of Bangka Belitung
About This Project
This project is part of a series of efforts in the development of tourism and biodiversity potential in the Province of Bangka Belitung through its leading biodiversity products namely honey, pepper and fish crackers. The development of these potentials is translated through a series of activities which include studies, trainings, and unlocking market access for stakeholders in the leading SMEs and tourism-related sectors.
About The Navigator: Guide to Honey, Pepper, and Fish Chips in Bangka Belitung Islands
The Navigator is an industrial report produced by ANGIN Impact containing value chain mapping, in-depth reporting, ecosystem players, and sectoral market reports to navigate investors and entrepreneurs in the ecosystem.
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Three Leading Biodiversity Products of Bangka Belitung
Honey
There are many variants of honey in Bangka Belitung. However, one with the most distinctive taste is the bitter pelawan honey. Its bitterness comes from the flower nectar of the rare pelawan trees. Reddish in color, it only exists in Bangka Belitung.
However, beekeepers have not found ways to cultivate bees sustainably. Other challenges include logistics, marketing & market access.
Pepper
Bangka Belitung is recognized with its Geographical Indication for Muntok White Pepper. Its piperine content is placed at level 7 thus it is spicier and stronger in aroma compared to other peppers in average.
Despite so, Bangka Belitung pepper is not widely known due to the lack of public education since there is no particular promotion or campaign with the right targets to build awareness. Aside from that, market access is still lacking despite vast potential.
Fish Crackers
Fish crackers are ‘the food of the people, ’ which never runs out of consumption. Kemplang is eaten every day as a side dish. It seems that there is no limitation to the Indonesian market for snacks.
Unfortunately there is a lack of product differentiation and product development that it causes uniformity in taste and packaging among the available suppliers.
Snapshot of Our Journey
Pelawan tree’s texture and reddish color makes it distinctive and easy to tell apart from other trees. Its flowers produce nectar, which is collected by wild Apis dorsata bees as they produce the bitter pelawan honey. This honey can only be harvested once or twice a year.
This nest of kelulut (Meliponini) bees. The box is filled with an assembly of pockets (propolis) as the bee nest, all of which contain honey.
Unripe pepper from one of the pepper trees in the area of Pelawan Forest.
One of the ready-to-harvest peppers. Ripe peppers are orange to red in color.
Roasting kemplang manually on top of a heated charcoal. This is a labor intensive process which requires constant attention as they can easily get burnt.
The women employees skillfully molded the dough for kerupuk keriting (a type of fish crackers) to be fried.
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Let's Do the Collective Impact and Develop the Biodiversity Products in Bangka Belitung Tourism!
Using the market-based value chain intervention methodology, the following are four series of ANGIN intervention programs that are expected to be intertwined through a multi-sector collective impact scheme:
Biodiversity Products as Souvenirs
- Sustainable Branding and Packaging Program
- Tourist Travel Map Development Program
- Tourism Biodiversity Products Marketing
Biodiversity Products as Tourism Experience
- Ecotourism Destination Development with Biodiversity Products of Honey, Pepper and Fish Crackers as Basis
Biodiversity Products as Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)
- Honey, Pepper and Fish Cracker Product Innovation
- Biodiversity Products of Honey, Pepper and Fish Crackers Good Governance
Bangka Belitung Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship Mentoring and Access to Capital
This collective and cooperative spirit is a passion passed down from our ancestors. Beyond study, we hope that this report can serve as a kickstart for other organizations to participate in collaborations bringing innovative solutions.
Collective impact carried out by ANGIN through FGD by inviting the Governor of Bangka Belitung, Erzaldi Rosman, in the sustainable development of biodiversity products of pepper, honey, and fish crackers. Present were Kehati, UNDP, TFCA Sumatera, Javara, Sekolah Seniman Pangan, Tree Hospitality Group, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy as well as a representative of a farmer from Bangka Belitung.
The Provincial Government of Bangka Belitung, together with ANGIN Impact, invites all relevant entrepreneurial ecosystem builders to join the development of tourism in the Islands of Bangka Belitung. Be a part of this collective impact by reaching out to our contact person through the link below!
ANGIN Impact Team
Writer & Field Researcher
Saskia Tjokro
Novi Juwita
Sarah Soeprapto
Photographer
Sarah Soeprapto
Design
Matagi.id
Data Collection Assistants
Gregoria Frederika Mandias
Olyvia Samosir
Proofreaders
William Nguyen
Talissa Febra