Muri records new invention

Muri records new invention

YOGYAKARTA: The Indonesian Museum of Records (Muri) awarded on
Saturday Kokoh Handoko, an alumnus of the Institute of Science
and Technology (IST) Akprind in Yogyakarta, a certificate of
record for his invention of an electric device called an Electric
Current Shock Indicator.

Muri Chairman Jaya Suprana presented the award in a ceremony
at IST Akprind auditorium over the weekend. Similar awards were
also given to the institute as the initiator of the invention,
and Prastyono Eko Pambudi as Kokoh's consulting lecturer.

According to Muri manager Paulus Pangka, it was the first time
that Muri had recorded an invention in the field of technology.
The device itself, he said, had been tried and demonstrated at
Muri headquarters in Semarang on Oct. 17, 2001. A demonstration
was also held during Saturday's ceremony.

"After it had been published for one month and no one else
claimed (to have invented) the device, then we have the
obligation to give the inventor an award and record it as a rare
invention," he said after the ceremony.

The invention was recorded as Muri's 658th record.

Jaya Suprana said that he highly appreciated technological
works. Moreover, what Kokoh had invented had something to do with
human safety. Therefore, it had a humanitarian value and not
merely a work of technology.

The device, which may be used as a tool to avoid accidents
caused by electric shock was inspired by an electronic device
called the full electronic earth leakage circuit breaker (ELCB),
which won second prize at a provincial technological innovation
competition for students in 1996. --JP