REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, CIBINONG -- Indonesia and Germany have established cooperation for research in biodiversity to develop the bioeconomy field as it would lead to prosperity.

The two countries set up cooperation through the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the German Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), according to Indonesian scientist Hari Sutrisno last week.

"All biodiversity sources have potential properties which, if studied, can turn out to be extraordinary economic resources," Hari Sutrisno, the chief zoology researcher of LIPI's Biological Research Center, said during a traveling conference on Biodiversity as an Economic Resource and Innovative Exploitation for Science and Society (BIORES) in Cibinong, West Java, on Thursday last week.

He said several types of antibiotic substances are found in microbes. The demand for antibiotics is very high and these have immense economic value. Plants have anti malaria and anti cancer medicinal properties.