BRIN invites global collaboration to create technology for a developed nation
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is inviting other nations to collaborate through co-development schemes, in an effort to strengthen technology collectively within their respective countries.
BRIN Head Arif Satria revealed that co-development is one of the steps being implemented, alongside strengthening research and technological support for SMEs and industry, to move towards ‘Golden Indonesia 2045’.
“Through co-development, we hope to engage various countries; therefore, we are inviting ambassadors from nations that possess leading technologies today. Most of these technologies can be applied in Indonesia through a co-development process involving BRIN and Indonesian researchers to serve our various developmental needs,” said the Head of BRIN during the Kick-Off of the Indonesia Innovation Summit & Expo (IISE) 2026 in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Arif is optimistic that Indonesia can become a developed nation if co-development is promptly undertaken with advanced nations. He noted that various technologies are currently mastered by developed countries, and vice versa.
He assessed that this momentum is the right time to collaborate in order to build shared technological strength to be implemented in Indonesia.
“In this context, we have built contributions to industry and SMEs, allowing us to see what types of technology we will develop,” he said.
To support SMEs, Arif continued, all related parties must collaborate to ensure that the phenomenon of the disconnect between the worlds of research and industry—which he referred to as “the valley of death”—does not occur in Indonesia.
“This is what we must solve, ensuring that BRIN is able to transform so that these innovations can become increasingly impactful,” he added.
Arif explained that for innovation to be impactful, there are several things BRIN is constantly striving for.
These include ensuring research is beneficial from the laboratory to real life (from lab to life), from the research world to the industrial world (from research to industry), from prototype to being marketable (from prototype to market), and how the utilisation of knowledge can be transformed into public prosperity (from knowledge to prosperity).
“This impact is BRIN’s orientation today; therefore, we always measure how much the research and technology we produce can bring benefits to our daily lives. How research can also be felt by mothers in the kitchen, by farmers in the fields, or by astronauts and cosmonauts on space missions. This is the spectrum I believe is very broad within BRIN,” he said.
“With BRIN’s orientation, the agency always plays a role in having an impact on science, an impact on government policy, an impact on industry, and an impact on society,” concluded Arif Satria.