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Director Attends the 2020 Ristek/BRIN National Coordination Meeting

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In accordance with the invitation from the Secretary of the Ministry of Research and Technology/National Research and Innovation Agency number B/53/A/TU.03.00/2020, the Director of Politap attended the 2020 Ristek/BRIN National Coordination Meeting held at the Center for Science and Technology Research (Puspiptek) Serpong, South Tangerang, on 29–30 January 2020, which was attended by 256 invitees consisting of Directors of State Polytechnics and Community Colleges, State University Rectors, Heads of LLDIKTI, Rectors of Autonomous Clustered Private Universities, Innovation Product Coordinators, Ministry of Ristek/BRIN Officials, Ministerial R&D Agencies, as well as Ministries and Non-Ministerial Government Agencies.

This National Coordination Meeting featured keynote speakers including President Joko Widodo, Chair of the Steering Committee of the Agency for Pancasila Ideology Education Megawati Soekarnoputri, ministers of the Indonesia Onward Cabinet, and several other speakers. Minister of Research and Technology/Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency Prof. Bambang PS Brodjonegoro , Ph.D as the host of the event, in his remarks, identified strategic issues in the development of science, technology, and innovation by translating five presidential directives regarding work program priorities to be executed by the 2019–2024 Indonesia Onward Cabinet, namely:

  1. Human Resource Development. Kemenristekdikti/BRIN will build dynamic, productive, skilled, and hardworking science and technology human resources who master science and technology, supported by industrial partnerships and global talent.
  2. Infrastructure Development. Kemenristekdikti/BRIN will maintain, modernize, and optimize the utilization of research, development, assessment, and application (litbangjirap) infrastructure to support economic transformation.
  3. Regulatory Simplification. Kemenristek/BRIN will simplify regulations to create a conducive research, development, assessment, and application ecosystem.
  4. Bureaucratic Simplification. Kemristek/BRIN initiated the integration of ministerial and non-ministerial R&D into BRIN to prevent duplicated, small-scale, and merely budget-absorption-oriented research, as well as the debureaucratization of research toward more agile and flexible research, development, assessment, and application institutions.
  5. Economic Transformation. Kemenristekdikti/BRIN will implement research, development, assessment, application, and downstream commercialization that yield Appropriate Technology, import substitution (increasing local content requirement / TKDN), value-added improvement, and mastery of new technologies (frontier technology).

The Director of Politeknik Negeri Ketapang (Ketapang State Polytechnic) who attended the event stated that his side would promptly implement the recommendations resulting from the National Coordination Meeting, including synergizing to support the implementation of the National Research Priorities (PRN) from upstream to downstream, particularly linked to the potential of study programs within Politeknik Negeri Ketapang.

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