Purbaya Polytechnic Institute

Purbaya Polytechnic Institute
Politeknik Purbaya Kabupaten Tegal
Established	September 23, 2002
Type	Private
Director	Edi Pramono
Academic staff	6
Admin. staff	4
Students	49
Other students	49 vocational education
Location	Tegal Regency, Central Java, Indonesia
Sports	badminton
Nickname	Purbayatech
Affiliations	APTISI
Website	http://www.purbaya.ac.id

Purbaya Polytechnic Institute (Purbayatech), officially named Politeknik Purbaya Kabupaten Tegal, is a private polytechnic located in Tegal Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The polytechnic offers three-year vocational education in mechanical engineering and information systems. As a non-degree educational institution, Purbayatech is authorized to award its graduates an Ahli Madya (A.Md) vocational title, an Indonesian phrase meaning "middle-level expert".

Named after Raden Purbayasa, the first Head of Tegal Regency, the polytechnic was established in 2002 under patronage of Yayasan Pertiwi Raya Tegal (Pertiwi Foundation). In the same year, the Minister of National Education, by Decision Letter No. 208/D/O/2002, granted the polytechnic an operating permit. On April 30, 2008, Directorate General of Higher Education, Department of National Education extended the operating permit by publishing Decision Letters No. 1433/D/T/2008 and 1434/D/T/2008, which are addressed to the Mechanical Engineering Study Program and Information System Study Program, respectively. Both of those letters apply until April 30, 2011.

Programs of Study

The Purbayatech offers non-degree studies in :

• Mechanical engineering with a focus in mechanical systems design
• Information systems with a focus in free / open-source software based Information systems

Mechanical Engineering Study Program

The Mechanical Engineering Study Program is intended to produce middle-level experts who are competent to:

• Read and create technical/mechanical drawings according to ISO standards
• Create three-dimensional drawings of mechanical systems
• Design mechanical parts or systems
• Compute strength of mechanical system constructions
• Schedule and compute cost of prototype realization
• Use information technology for the sake of effective and efficient works

Information System Study Program

The Information System Study Program is intended to produce middle-level experts who are competent to:

• Develop application programs based on the LAMP software bundle.
• Administer the Linux operating system
• Design and administer Linux based computer networks
• Implement website content management systems
• Implement e-commerce concepts on small and middle size businesses
• Use office suite: word processor, spreadsheet and presentation

General

Tegal has a longstanding reputation as a center of plate metalworking home industries in Indonesia.

Free / Open-Source Software Based Education Policy

Since January 2007, Purbayatech started to implement free / open-source (FOSS) technology into all of its academic and administrative activities.

List of FOSS that being used:

• Algorithm and Data Structure Laboratory : Java
• C compiler : GCC
• Technical / Engineering Drawing  : qCAD community edition
• Numerical computations : Scilab
• Office suite  : OpenOffice.org
• Operating system  : Linux
• RDMS : MySQL
• Solid modeling : Blender
• Web browser  : Mozilla Firefox
• Web programming  : PHP
• Web Server Configuration Training  : Apache

References

[1] PENERIMA KEGIATAN IGOS CENTER 2008 http://www.ristek.go.id/?module=News%20News&id=2840