1. Introduction
Paper is one of the required high demand materials in the market although the paperless technology has been
proposed. Paper is mostly used in printing operations such as money, books, newspapers and also packaging work
such as food packaging, wrapping and other things more in daily use. The increasing demand of wood based
material for papermaking is indirectly increase the deforestation activities and also affect the harmful to the
environment. The continuous usage of wood as a raw material in papermaking industry will affect the ecosystem of the forest and also further will affect the economic potential against highly limited wood resources available. Some
studies have been carried out to find the other best solutions to replace wood with the non-wood raw materials such
as oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) [1–4], oil palm male flower[5], kenaf [6], pineapple leaf [7], bagasse [8-9], coir
fiber [10-11] and banana fiber [12]. Besides, there was less research on usage of durian rinds for paper pulp.