The Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering of the Faculty of Agricultural Technology UGM has developed Smart Coffee Enterprise Support System (SCESS) in order to support coffee small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) businesses in Pelaga village, Badung regency, Bali.
The project was done through collaboration with Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry to develop Smart Coffee Enterprise Support System (SCESS). The application was launched on 9 April 2019 along with training to enhance the skills of coffee farmers in Pelaga, Bali.
Developers of the system, Prof. Lilik Soetiarso and Dr. Andri Prima Nugroho, attended the event. Lilik said the cooperation between UGM and the Ministry in the development of Smart Enterprise Support System for Coffee Agroindustry became a long term research agenda, particularly in establishing centers of excellence in smart agriculture.
“This cooperation is an important agenda while trying to establish centers of excellence in smart agricultural system,” he said in a release sent on Tuesday (16/4).
Lilik said in the launching event Deputy Minister for Financing as well as the supervisor of national SME cooperatives, Ir. Yuana Sutyowati, MM., appreciated the UGM Department that had collaborated with them in developing the support systems for the coffee SMEs.
The statement was shared by Chairman of National Cooperatives, Reza Fabianus, M.Sc. He expressed his gratitude for for the efforts and support of UGM in developing the embryo of SCESS and hoped that the adoption of the system would improve the welfare of coffee farmers in Indonesia.
Andri Prima added the embryo of SCESS is a database system for updating farmer’s details by name by address as the basis toward enterprise system as a support for government decision making. Events that are recorded include data on farmers, land ownership, administration and management of credit for people’s business, cultivation and post-harvest activities. SCESS architectural design was developed by orienting towards knowledge management system.
