Abstract. Bamboo has unique characteristics, such as in the carbonization process at a
temperature of 5000C, the carbon characteristics is homogeneous. The characteristics of bamboo
have great potential as a future bio-energy resource. Apart from being a bio-energy source of
bamboo can also be used as an adsorbent material in the form of activated carbon. Activated
carbon is the most inexpensive and easy to produce adsorbent material. One of the activated
carbons of bamboo materials used is the micro-active carbon from bamboo. Microactivated
carbon bamboo has a pore structure which is good for adsorption because of its surface area
being much better than the other adsorbent, mainly on mesopore and micropore pore size. The
purpose of this research is to make micro-activated carbon adsorbent bamboo var. petungand to
analyze their characteristics. The characteristic of microactivecarbon was analyzed by SEM EDS
and Iod number. The result showed a variation in pore size from 1µm to 11.157µm. The surface
area of micro-active carbon of 200 mesh and 80 mesh is 1954.95 m2g
-1
and 1516.34 m2g
-1