Studying at BDP is exciting and challenging

For those of you who like fish and its cultivation process, IPB University has a Department of Aquaculture (BDP) in the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences (FPIK). This is what Radi Ihlas Albani did. The man who since childhood likes to keep fish and biology lessons chose the Department of Aquaculture or commonly called the Department of Aquaculture IPB University.

“Biology is the lesson I learned the most in high school. When I wanted to enter S1 in 2004, I checked that in Indonesia only BDP IPB University had an A accreditation and the best BDP major in Indonesia,” he said.

In this department there are two study programs namely aquaculture management technology and aquaculture science. Lectures in this department will learn a lot about fish farming. Starting from understanding the types and physiology of fish, water quality and the environment for cultivation, cultivation technology, nutrition for fish and feed ingredients, fish disease to fish genetics are also studied.

Therefore studying in this department is very exciting and challenging. Moreover, students will go into the field a lot for practicum and study directly to cultivation. Not only about technical cultivation, certainly students in this department are also given the knowledge of management and entrepreneurship as a provision to run a fisheries business. The students are also quite active and prestigious.

Radi is now a student in the Aquaculture Postgraduate program in 2018. Radi successfully obtained research funding for the Research Management and Community Service Information System (SIMLITABMAS) from the Directorate General of Higher Education (Dikti) in 2019/2020 for two years of implementation.

“The facilities obtained at BDP are also complete enough to conduct research in accordance with my interests. The teaching staff are qualified and I have known enough since S1. Graduates from the BDP department have the opportunity to become educators, researchers, extension workers, and entrepreneurs,” said Radi, who is currently also a participant in the 2019/2020 Six Indonesia Initiative Japan Indonesia (SUIJI) program and is currently carrying out his research in Japan.

According to him, the memorable thing he felt while being a student was when all the grades in his course were A except in statistics they got AB. In addition Radi is also free to conduct research in accordance with interests that may not be covered elsewhere.

“Biofloc is the focus of the research I’m currently living. In BDP there is also a Biofloc expert, Dr. Julie Ekasari, so studying at BDP IPB University is very supportive of my research,” he said. (NR)

Keyword: Department of Aquaculture, Aquaculture, IPB University