ABSTRACT
Seaweed is abundant in Indonesia, of which around 555 species have been already identied. About 21 species have been utilized as raw material by seaweed
processing industries (Aslan 1991). Tremendous development of seaweed farming during the past 5 years has brought about the situation in which the seaweed production of Indonesia (in volume) is higher than in the Philippines; the production volume in 2013 reached 9,298,474 tons (Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries 2014). Most of them are mainly Eucheuma sp. and Gracilaria sp.
