Malang, 2020 - The PKM PE (Exacta Research Student Creativity Week) Chemistry FMIPA UM Team funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture is conducting research on the efficiency of lignin extract inhibitors Borassus flabellifer Linn. which is known as a local siwalan tree that is widely grown in Indonesia as a method of treating low carbon steel corrosion. The PKM PE FMIPA Kimia UM team which is chaired by Siti Khoirunnisa, a chemistry student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UM, class of 2017, stated that this research is being conducted online.

"Due to a pandemic situation that made it impossible to carry out activities offline, the Ministry of Education and Culture in the 2020 Addendum provided information that the implementation of this research was carried out online including research activities which were also carried out online" explained the chemistry student of FMIPA UM, who is often referred to as Nisa.

The research was conducted online, several things were also an obstacle in carrying out research, but Nisa explained that team collaboration and the role of the campus really helped the performance in conducting research that could only be done online. "Yes, this study only examines secondary data from relevant literature references to strengthen this idea and states that this idea can be implemented as a solution to the problems that occur, but here we are trying to do our best if it is better if data collection can still be done online (approach computational research) "he said.

In this research the PKM PE Kimia FMIPA UM Nisa team really hopes that all the contributions given by the team can give maximum results even though the research carried out is very limited in space and time, but apart from that all the roles of various parties are very supportive in the effort to produce. the output the best.

Reporter: Nadia Erlina Mayangsari - Chemistry Department Student of UM

Photo reporter: Siti Khoirunnisa - Student of Chemistry Department, UM