Optimization of Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB) as a solution to deforestation as a result of the exploitation from the paper industry in Riau of conferences

This paper is intended to explain how to make empty bunches of palm oil as the basic ingredients of papermaking. Which with wood-based paper will indirectly lead to increased logging in the forest. On the other hand, paper production and demand continue to increase with a consumption rate of 349 tons per year. The need requires a timber of 45 million m3. So other raw materials needed alternative, one empty bunch of oil palm. Which is a waste of palm oil industry and contains cellulose. The production of palm oil in Indonesia is 31.07 million tons per year (BPS, 2015), and produces 25-26% empty bunches of palm oil waste. The method used in this research is a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. Then the data collected by using literature review techniques with various references related to the utilization of empty bunches of palm oil as raw material for paper making, as well as with documentation techniques. The data is processed with the pattern of deductive piker and interpretation of the author. The results of this study illustrate that empty bunches of palm oil can be optimized into products with a high economic value of papermaking materials. This can reduce the volume of palm oil waste and also become a solution to overcome the exploitation of timber that affects deforestation.