SynbiGreen Survey

Synthetic biology is a new field of science for Indonesia students. Team ITB_Indonesia wanted to share knowledge about synthetic biology and had a vision to help inisiation of synbio group in other universities. One of the implementation was through introduction of synthetic biology to Pasundan University students.

In this activity, questionnaire was propagated to know the intrest of UNPAS students to study synthetic biology. The result, 100% respondent showed an interest to study synthetic biology and thought that synthetic biology could be used to solve problems especially for problems in Indonesia. 17.24% of the respondent wanted to solve health problems through synthetic biology and 13.79% from the respondent wanted to solve environment problems. 62% respondent thought that energy problems could be solved through synthetic biology.

Survey about plastic issue that will be brought by team ITB_Indonesia to iGEM competition in Boston was also take place in this activity. From the survey, 57% respondent used plastic in their daily activity and 48% of the respondent discarded the plastic waste. Awareness to recycle plastic waste was very low and may caused accumulation of plastic waste, especially bottle packaging. Therefore, degradation system that environmentally friendly was required.