• News Archive
  • Simaster
  • Webmail
  • Directory
  • Crisis Center
  •  English
    • Indonesia
Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Gadjah Mada
  • Education
    • Doctoral dissertation
    • Inauguration of Professor
    • Graduation
  • Achievement
  • Research and Innovation
    • Research
    • Innovation
  • Campus Info
    • Cooperation
    • Seminar and Workshop
    • Student Community Service Program
    • Other
  • News Report
  • Home
  • News Report
  • RI House of Representative Appreciates UGM Innovative Products for Covid-19 Handling

RI House of Representative Appreciates UGM Innovative Products for Covid-19 Handling

  • 17 July 2020, 20:14 WIB
  • By: Natasa Adelayanti
  • 1276
DPR RI Apresiasi Inovasi Peneliti UGM untuk Penanganan Covid-19
DPR RI Apresiasi Inovasi Peneliti UGM untuk Penanganan Covid-19
DPR RI Apresiasi Inovasi Peneliti UGM untuk Penanganan Covid-19
DPR RI Apresiasi Inovasi Peneliti UGM untuk Penanganan Covid-19
DPR RI Apresiasi Inovasi Peneliti UGM untuk Penanganan Covid-19
DPR RI Apresiasi Inovasi Peneliti UGM untuk Penanganan Covid-19

UGM welcomed a visit from the House of Representatives Commission IX on Friday (7/17) at the Senate Hall. During this visit, members of the House Representative directly observed UGM innovative products that are beneficial for the handling of Covid-19.

Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Commission IX, Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, gave appreciation to UGM researchers who were able to produce innovative research products and had contributed efforts to increase the nation's independence through domestic production.

"We reckon that we should visit UGM because we know that UGM is one of the campuses that produce valuable discoveries in this country. We need to push back domestic production as the ideals of our independence," he said.

Emanuel said the handling of Covid-19 needed to be based on research. Therefore, the House of Representatives Commission IX is ready to provide support to UGM to downstream research products so that those can be produced massively and used in hospitals and health care facilities throughout Indonesia.

"Please tell us what support we can provide. We will try to collaborate UGM products with politics so that the state budget can be used for Covid's needs," he said.

He also encouraged the synergy between universities and industry. Besides, he explained domestic products related to Covid-19 handling needs to be developed jointly by researchers and the private sector so that the production process can be run well and directly absorbed by the market.

"This is a favourable atmosphere, a synergy together to develop the country," said Emanuel.

UGM Vice Chancellor for Cooperation and Alumni, Prof. Dr. Plenary, presented several UGM innovations in the handling of Covid-19. There are two types of ventilators called Ventilator Indonesia (VENINDO). It aims to meet the needs of the management of respiratory failure due to the Covid-19 virus which has been declared to have passed the functional test by the Health Facilities Safety Office and currently in the clinical trial process.

Besides, UGM also developed Genoese Vid, an electronic nose that functions as a rapid diagnostic tool for Covid-19 patients with a working principle based on the human olfactory system and some other research products.

He explained that UGM innovation was oriented to the creation of added value to help solve various community problems. Several UGM innovations developed in the Science Techno Park container, which he called the UGM innovation house.

"The resulting innovations have an urgency to be immediately adopted and disseminated and aligned with national strategic priorities with academic, industrial, and community-based approaches," he explained.

According to him, to be able to develop this innovation, UGM needs support related to 3 things. They are the acceleration of the licensing process and standards from the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Industry and BSN, the support of further research funding to scale up on an industrial scale, and the acceleration of the procurement process for government goods.

"It would be our pleasure if we can help in these three things," he said.

On the same occasion, the Chancellor of UGM, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng. D. Eng., Revealed that through many innovations developed, UGM seeks to increase national independence of imported products, even though many components used in UGM's innovation products are still imported from abroad.

He also requested the willingness of the House of Representatives Commission IX to jointly strive for this so that Indonesia could win the competition in an era of increasingly tough competition.

"We should keep on trying something this such beneficial so that the country can advance and win global competition," the Chancellor said.

 

Author: Gloria
Photo: Firsto

Related News

  • Minister of Research and Technology Builds "Merah Putih" Vaccine Acceleration Team

    Friday,27 November 2020 - 17:42
  • UGM and MC3 Collaboration in Handling Covid-19

    Friday,16 April 2021 - 10:22
  • Research and Technology Minister Appreciates UGM Science Techno Park

    Thursday,26 December 2019 - 9:09
  • UGM Distributes 11 Thousand Tools of RI-GHA Rapid Test

    Wednesday,25 November 2020 - 22:11
  • Budi Gunadi, A Ministry of Health to Visit UGM

    Monday,22 February 2021 - 15:58

News Releases

  • Geography Alumna’s Aromatic Telon Oil Habbie Named 2023 Indonesia Brand Champion 03 February 2023
    Novita Anggraeni, an alumna of the UGM Faculty of Ge
    Salma
  • Bimasakti UGM Kicks Off Hybrid Technology Research 03 February 2023
    Bimasakti UGM has started researching hybrid technol
    Salma
  • 18,964 UGM Students Receive Scholarships, Director of Student Affairs Says 20 January 2023
    Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) annually allocates hundreds
    Salma
  • Prof. Budi Setiadi Daryono Recounts Origin of His Apple Melon Cultivar 'Hikapel' 16 January 2023
    In 2012, a team of researchers from the UGM Facult
    Salma
  • UGM Graduate Fajar Kelana Named Top 20 International James Dyson Award Winner 13 January 2023
    Fajar Sidik Abdullah Kelana, an alumnus of UGM and
    Salma

Event

No latest event at this time

Universitas Gadjah Mada
UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA
Bulaksumur Yogyakarta 55281
   info@ugm.ac.id
   +62 (274) 588688
   +62 (274) 565223
   +62 811 2869 988

PARTNERSHIP

  • Alumni
  • International Affairs

ABOUT UGM

  • Rector's Welcome
  • History
  • Vission and Mission
  • The Board of Executive
  • Management

VISIT UGM

  • Campus Map
  • Event

REGISTRATION

  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
  • Vocational School
  • Professional Program
  • International Program

© 2023 Universitas Gadjah Mada

PRIVACY POLICYCONTACT