ITB students develop anti-counterfeiting chip for e-passports at PERURI event
Jakarta (ANTARA) — Students from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) have developed a security chip design to prevent the forgery and duplication of digital identities, particularly in electronic passports, or e-passports, at the PERURI Chip Hackathon 2026.
The innovation was developed by ITB’s Casa Tubagus team, which won first place in the competition, held as part of the PERURI Digital Summit 2026.
PERURI Digital Business Director Edwin Purwandesi said in a press statement in Jakarta on Monday that the team’s technology uses a unique physical fingerprint on each chip as a security identity.
The approach is intended to strengthen protection against the risk of chip forgery and duplication in electronic identity documents.
In addition to identity-security innovations, the competition produced several semiconductor technology designs for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital data protection.
The iSeeDesignITB team from ITB, which placed second, developed an AI-based chip design to help robots move more intelligently, safely and efficiently, particularly when operating in environments shared with people.
Meanwhile, the Digilarp team from the University of Indonesia (UI) came third with a security chip design intended to protect encryption keys and sensitive data on e-passports from physical attacks.
The three innovations were selected from 98 teams involving 338 students from 41 universities across Indonesia.
Participants were challenged to develop chip designs in four technology fields: Secure Identity & Security Element Chip, Hardware Cryptography Accelerator, AI/Edge Accelerator and Secure Communication.
Edwin said developing human resources was an important step towards strengthening Indonesia’s capabilities in the semiconductor sector.
“In line with the President’s direction on semiconductor technology self-reliance, PERURI is seeking to prepare national talent through the PERURI Chip Hackathon. We hope this initiative can continue to grow so that, within the next two to five years, Indonesia will have talent that is increasingly prepared and experienced in semiconductor technology,” Edwin said.
He added that developing chip designs domestically was part of efforts to build national technological capabilities, particularly to support digital security, artificial intelligence and national communications systems.