Development of SMI (Small and Medium Industry) Centres for Fisheries Sector in the Northern Region of Aceh through Community Empowering Around the Coast by Strengthening Networks, Digitization and Downstream Products

Abstract

 Pusong Baro Village  and  Ulee Jalan Village are two villages located in  Banda Sakti district, under the administration of Lhokseumawe City.   It has abundant  natural wealth from the  fishery sector, and  has great potential as a  dry fish producing village in the Lhokseumawe City area. However,  the development of the  community's dry  fish processing business production is still not  good.  Problems in the management of dried fish  are constrained by the lack of  processing of existing  dried fish, products that are packaged not yet on standard packaging, marketing of products  that  are still  conventionally  so that the  sales commodities are small,  as well as less  qualified marketing management.  In overcoming the obstacles of dry fish production in Pusong Baro Village  and  Ulee Jalan  Village, this  community  service activity provides  facilities to the community  villages in the form of business tools that facilitate the production process  such as vacuum sealer machines, fish drying ovens,  oil slicing  machines and making fish drying houses  .  The output of    community service activities in  Pusong Baro Village  and  Ulee Jalan Village is that they can develop better dry fish processing,   product packaging  which has been standardized and interesting, increased ability of  community business management, publication of  service journals, simple IPR  , creation of an introduction catalog website    dried fish products as  well as uploading videos  of service activities on the YouTube platform.  With  this service activity, it is hoped that production activities can  increase to  be even better  than before and can expand the dried fish market  commodity   community production of  Pusong Baro Village  and  Ulee Road Village.