Slowly dance cheerfulness touches the eastern spur, breaking a thin mist that is still faithful to cover Subang District. Fresh aroma of dew and wet soil blends with a distinctive pine leaf odor blended with a sound deru of tapered decorticator machine from a production house that breaks the silence.
The motherhood of workers began to look, they began to separate the fibers of the previously sorted pine leaves waste using the machine. After a separate fiber, then, the workers wash and nut the fiber under the heat of the sun until the dry fiber or the water content below 13 percent. In other angles, the worker dominated by mothers by consolidating and asking the fiber that has passed the quality inspection process (quality control) into various crafts.
The routine picture that is done every day at the Alfiber production house of the Subang Nanas Leaf Fiber. A production house in Cikadu Village, Cijambe District, Subang District, West Java that strives to provide more value on the waste of pine leaves. Alan Sahroni is the owner of the production house, his story began in 2013, when he saw the pine potential in his area was not optimally utilized.
Workers with farmers collect the waste of pine leaves in the village of Cigore, Kasomalang, Subang District, West Java
The work of riding a three-wheel vehicle carries the sewage of pine leaves across the plantation land
"We know that Subang Regency is well known to be one of the largest fruit producers in West Java even in Indonesia. However, now most farmers only sell and process the fruits only,” said Alan Sahroni.
Based on the data of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Subang of 2025, around 185.832 tons of pineapple fruits produced annually from a productive land that reaches 1.635 hectares. But after the harvest of the bow, the sewage of the pine leaves is generally discharged and left to rot even uncommonly burned by farmers.
Finally, men graduated textile techniques in one of these universities try to process the waste of such pine leaves into economic value products. "The pineapple leaves have the value of function and economic value, the farmers are smiled because it gets additional income from selling the waste of the leaves," said Alan Sahroni.
The work of processing pine leaf fibers before sunbed at the production house.
The work of inserting the sewage of pine leaves into the decorticator machine for fiber excitation.
This production house has empowered people around to process 3.2 tons of pine leaves into 50-60 kilograms of pine leaves fiber every month. The fiber is then used as a variety of eco-fashion products such as yarns, hats, macro bags, wallets, kicks and other interesting trinkets.
In terms of sales, the production house also utilizes digitalization by marketing products in various marketers (e-commerce). All products can be sold to almost all areas in Indonesia at Rp95 thousand - Rp600 thousand. In fact, in the range of 2021 - 2022, the processed products of pine leaves began to successfully penetrate the export market to a number of countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Germany and Holland with omzet reached hundreds of millions.
In addition to being a processing place, the production house becomes a means of sustainable innovation education that is often visited by students, students, entrepreneurs to regional devices that want to study and research.
The work examines the quality of the pine leaf fiber.
The work of sunny leaf fiber sunbathing.
This story is an evidence that there is nothing in vain in the earth, even from waste once. By utilizing knowledge, technology and digitalization, Alan Sahroni together the team is able to infiltrate the waste while creating a job field that moves the economy wheel in the area.
Photos and text: Abdan Syakura
Author: Akbar Nugroho Gumay
The work examines the quality of the pine leaf fiber.
The work of weaving yarns from the pine leaf fiber using the weaving tool instead of the machine (ATBM).
Pemilik Alfiber Fibre Leaves Pineapple Subang Alan Sahroni took the picture of the processed products of pine leaf waste fiber using the gadget in the production house, Cijambe, Subang District, West Java
Pemilik Alfiber Leaves Pineapple Subang Alan Sahroni monitors the sales of the processed products of pine leaves in one of the market (e-commerce).
People show the scarf of the processed of the pine leaf waste fiber when the photo session.
The work poses with some products from the processed of the pine leaf fiber.
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