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Cloves are one of Indonesia's green gold commodities. All parts of this plant are absent which is wasted in vain. boy, twigs and even littered leaves It can also be processed as raw material for clove oil or essential oil.
Mrs. Sumarti is a resident of Parang Hamlet, Semen Village, Gandusari District, Blitar Regency, is the owner of CV. Bayu Sarana Mandiri which has a contract with Kimia Farma to meet Kimia Farma's production raw material needs, Kimia Farma itself provides production equipment but is paid in installments for the delivery results. "Message from the Chemical Farma Manager, Don't feel like the production machine is yours, "So each delivery will be cut for this machine," explained Mrs. Sumarti. year 2017 At the beginning of the year, we started distilling, In the beginning, he only acted as an intermediary between Kimia Farma and the refining unit to meet the needs for raw materials for refining, and as time went on he was believed to have his own distillery, and choosing the parang location to be closer to the raw materials for refining so as to further reduce transportation costs.
The early one is still using 1 Tandon has now developed into 2 Tandon because demand from chemical pharma has increased. With Kimia Farma's preorder system, Mrs. Sumarti must meet the target delivery time, “orders follow preorders, for example this month to send oil 1 tons in a period of one month, must be fulfilled at all costs," he explained.
It takes patience in the manual distillation process lasts as long as 24 jam. Two large stoves become weapons for cooking clove leaves and must be cooked over high heat and kept burning. So in one day you can only do distillation 3 kali, with 6 the officer which keeps alternating, and one distillation (4 quintal of clove leaves) just can produce 10-14 liters and even that depends on the clove leaves, increasingly It's good that more clove leaves are produced from the distillation process.
The raw materials themselves come from existing plantations in the cement village and there are also some from the Tulungagung area, Blitar as well slopes of Mount Kawi, takes time 4 months from planting to receipt used as raw material but after the initial picking 4 next month period he said 1,5 month.
Profits depend on market prices like last year price can reach Rp. 240.000/liter. Even that only survives 1 month and continues to decline until it is currently priced at IDR 125,000/liter, season In the dry season several months ago, clove leaves were abundant compared to the rainy season. This condition is a blessing in itself for refinery owners and employees clove oil.
Apart from cloves, the clove oil refining unit Mitra Atsiri PT. Sinkona Indonesia Lenstari with partner name CV. Bayu Sarana Mandiri, also fulfills production needs ranging from glued oil to raw materials for perfume, ginger powder and quinine powder. This is a blessing from starting as just an intermediary and now being able to produce your own distillate under contract with Kimia Farma. (Yoga, Deni, Revelation, Carol – Semen 2)
