Institut Teknologi Bandung

The awards were given by M. Nasir, Minister of High Education, Research, and Technology, to fifteen researchers who are considered have had created innovation and economic impact to the citizens. "It is considered as a token of appreciation for their invention and hardwork", stated Nasir in Directorate of Education's office, Jakarta.

Secretary General of Ministry of Education and Culture, Ainun Naim, stated that his department had received 145 research proposals from various category. Such amount of proposals were then screened to get fifteen best proposals which were divided to four categories; Patent, Copyrights of Science, Protection of Plant's variety, Industrial Design, Copyrights of Artworks, and  The Art of Performance and Interactive Games.

A Brief About Andar Bagus Sriwarno

Andar Bagus is one of the lecturers in Industrial Product Design FSRD ITB. He got his bachelor degree from the same major in 1995. Andar then had a chance to take advanced course in School of Architecture, Furniture Design in Danish Academy of Fine Art, Denmark before continuing his master Design in FSRD ITB. In 2008, Andar had his doctoral degree in Science and Department Chiba University, Japan.

Andar is well known for his published-researches in journal and seminars. One of his researches is Bamboo Design Workshop which was done under cooperation with Musashino Art University, Japan. Beside working on research and design, Andar also actively involves in community service activities. One of the activities that Andar involved in was Workshop on "Awi-Awi Mandiri" Saung Angklung Mang Udjo and Seminar on "Ergonomy and Leisure of Product Design" held by division of Human and Interior Space in 2011.

Bamboo-based Violin as an Effort to Find Originality

Andar stated that his bamboo-based violin design is an anticipation to the non-optimal development of bamboo-based music instruments in Indonesia. Even to date, there is still no effort in utilizing bamboo for stringed instruments. Based on that problem, Andar cooperated with Indonesia Bamboo Community designed bamboo-based violin using bamboo laminating technique. The technique is done in order to create vibrational tube with unique acoustic feeling.

There are two kinds of design that Andar created. The first design is bamboo violin with G key-shaped tube and the second design is a simple yet better vibration bamboo violin. To date, these two violins have been registered and physically and acousticly tested through several experiments in Product Design Laboratory of FSRD ITB.

Creating Product with Long Term Orientation

OIEA 2014 was held by cooperation from various Ministries, such as Ministry of Culture and Primary and Secondary Education, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Ministry of Research, technology, and High Education, Ministry of Trade, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Indutry, and Ministry of Agriculture. The award is expected to enhance motivatopn of the lecturers, researchers, and citizens to keep working, innovating, and giving their best to the country.

M. Nasir also stated the importance of commercializing and industrializing the researches. The researchers should also avoid thinking of doing short-term research. "We also should avoid problems that may come up after a patent is granted, such as the research apparently had left behind, the research is too expensive, and how long the innovation will last. These are important for industrializing and commercializing the research's products", stated Nasir.