Attendees of this visit were Agung Sedaju as Director of Development of PT INKA and a number of ITB academicians consisting of the Dean of FMAE, the Directorate of Student Affairs, LPPM ITB, and lecturer representatives from various faculties.

At the meeting, ITB was given the mandate to provide education and assistance to 221 lecturers as well as 800 students from universities across East Java and Central Java. This was in accordance with the research program initiated by PT INKA. In response, Prof. Dr. Ir. Tatacipta Dirgantara, M.T., as the Dean of FMAE stated that ITB was ready to contribute to the aforementioned research program.

“After the pandemic began two years ago, ITB is delighted when it is entrusted with a great responsibility like this. I strongly believe that universities should have good cooperation with the industry. Therefore, we can identify the relevance of engineering expertise that can be applied,” he described.

Meanwhile, Agung Sedaju was also confident that ITB would be able to give its best contribution. This was based on the fact that ITB had never disappointed him and his enterprise in all previous cooperations. He said that PT INKA had always received substantial benefits when they cooperated with ITB.

In addition to receiving support from FMAE, the PT INKA-ITB cooperation also received positive responses from numerous faculties and schools present during the visit, namely from the Faculty of Industrial Technology and the School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. Through representatives of their lecturers, they expressed their readiness and enthusiasm to collaborate in this research project.

“As the representatives of the Engineering Physics Study Program, we are very happy with this project. With our research being focused on comfort and the impact of the railroad industry on the environment, we are very committed to take part in this research. Through this, we hope Indonesia's railroad industry can always improve for the future," said one of the lecturers from the ITB’s Engineering Physics Study Program.

At the end of the visit, Dr. Ir. Tatacipta stated that efforts that could be made to follow up on this project were to form a development team with representatives from each faculty. Moreover, they would produce clusters of research models that will be studied further so that the project could benefit the Indonesian people, especially in the field of the railroad industry.

Reporter: Nur Rama Adamas (Civil Engineering, 2020)
Translator: Ariq Ramadhan Teruna (Chemical Engineering, 2021)