At the beginning of 2023 the Biotechnology Laboratory of the Faculty of Biology UGM has accepted 2 level 8 students from the TechnoNatura Jogja International Madrasah, namely Ata Nufayl An Nabih and Zufar Syahardyan to carry out Plant Tissue Culture internships. The two students were very serious about following the material from Mrs. Prof. Dr. Endang Semiarti, M.S., M.Sc. The Head of the Biotechnology Laboratory and carries out the practice of Plant Tissue Culture Engineering accompanied by Mr. Eka Mega Sampurna as the Biotechnology Laboratory technician.
Level 8 MI TechnoNatura Jogja Mentor: Della Rosiana Ningtias, S.Si stated that this internship was one of the learning activity programs at entrepreneur week at the TechnoNatura International Madrasah. In general, internships have the goal of providing an overview, insight, knowledge, and direct experience to students. In addition, internships provide work experience in accordance with the interests and talents of students or better understand the business processes that run in companies/institutions, so that they can be given the opportunity to learn directly from the source and get real world work experience. In this internship activity, the two students received material from Prof. Endang about the basics of plant tissue culture techniques in general and the advantages of using these tissue culture methods for plant propagation/mass production of plant seeds, uniform in nature and in a relatively short time. This is certainly very promising to be developed in the industrial/agribusiness world. For practice, the students carry out the practice of the stages of plant tissue culture starting from making media, preparing plants as donor plants to be developed, namely orchid plants as an icon of the Biotechnology Laboratory which is known as the UGM Orchid Laboratory and carrying out subculture/transfer of plant seeds/thinning of plant seeds resulting from tissue culture from 1 full culture bottle to new medium from another culture bottle in the form of orchid plant seeds. The sterile phalaenopsis appeared to be growing well. Even though the duration was very short, in just 3 days, Ata and Zufar, the two students seemed to really enjoy and enthusiastically participate in all the activities given by Ms. Prof. Endang and Mr. Eka. On the 2nd and 3rd day, 2 more students (Yafi and Ardan) were sent from TechnoNatura Jogja MI to take part in the internship, both of them were also very enthusiastic about participating in this Plant Tissue Culture Internship activity.
On the last day, the students showed the results of their activities, in the form of growing media they made, then they took the Post Test which was given as the basis for their work assessment. TechnoNatura Jogja MI presented a Certificate for the Biotechnology Laboratory as an expression of gratitude that their two students had been allowed to carry out an internship, gain knowledge and work experience in tissue culture engineering to Ata and Zufar, their students. Ms. Della stated that by participating in this internship it was hoped that the knowledge gained by the two students would be useful for their future and hopefully they could become future scientists in Indonesia.