Nygaard Index is an index which can be used to determined the trophic state of waters, based on phytoplankton composition. To understand the trophic state of the Diatas Lake, a research was conducted on February- March 2017. There were three sampling stations, namely station 1 (inlet area),station 2 (in the middle of lake), station 3 (outlet area). In each station, there were threesampling poin…