The potential area for seaweed

The benefit of seaweed was based on the research was recorded by 22 kinds was made use of as food.
Diwilayah South Sulawesi waters, South-East Sulawesi, Pulau Ceram, Bali, Lombok, Kepulauan Riau and the Seribu Island were known by 18 kinds was made as food and 56 kinds as food and traditional medicine use of by the coastal community.
From results of the study was recorded by as many as 61 kinds from 27 seaweeds in the Riau Island, Pantai Lampung, Pulau Java, Madura, Bali, NTB, NTT, South Sulawesi, South-East Sulawesi and several have in the Moluccan Island been used to be made food.
This number was dominated by 38 kinds from 17 red gaps, 15 kinds from 5 green algaes and 8 kinds from 5 chocolate gaps.
From 21 kinds was made use of as medicine.
Indonesia was known by the healthy country and was rich in nature resources.
As the country widely the sea territory more than 70 %, one of the nature wealth that could be made use of by us was the biological source.
Apart from the fish, the alternative produced by sea that could be processed was seaweed.
Seaweed including in the algae member (plants had chlorophyll or chlorophyll).
Plants that lived diperairan shallow and clung to coral that died this was divided in 4 big classes, that is Rhodophyceae (red algae), Phaeophyceae (chocolate algae), Chlorophyceae (green algae), and Cyanophyceae (blue algae green).
Seaweed was often used as the industrial raw material.
For example that is chocolate algae, that were used for the ice-cream raw material, the processing of textile, the pharmacy factory, shoe polish, and the paint factory.
Red algae for the raw material, the pharmacy, skin tanning, and the production of beer of the food industry.

Moreover, seaweed could be also used as the material for crop fertiliser, the mixture of livestock food, but also the cosmetic raw material.
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