"We will continue to focus on completing work to build national strategic research facilities next year," Head of BRIN Laksana Tri Handoko stated during the Year-End Webinar and BRIN 2021 Journalists and Media Awards here, Wednesday.
In 2022, the agency is planning to build several research facilities in Cibinong, West Java, specifically a level-3 animal biosafety laboratory facility and a laboratory of the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) standards for producing vaccines.
Subsequently, in Lampung, BRIN will build a Strategic Local Mineral Processing Laboratory Facility based on low-cost and zero-waste technology and an Incubation Building and Integration Laboratory for Data Services and Remote Sensing Information.
Meanwhile, in Biak, Papua, the agency is planning to build an Earth Station Facility for Controlling and Receiving Satellite Data.
In addition, BRIN will focus on building research vessels to meet the requirements of a research vessel in the country.
BRIN will also continue to increase the utilization of research and innovation in the community by bolstering cooperation in the utilization of research and innovation with the industry, with the objective of intensifying collaboration between research and innovation producers and users.
Handoko stated that as an integrated research institution, the National Research and Innovation Agency has various schemes for improving human resource competence as well as utilizing the existing infrastructure.
BRIN continues to improve its human resources with postgraduate and doctoral education backgrounds, develop its research and innovation human resources' competencies, and conduct functional and professional development of the agency's research and innovation human resources.
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Translator: Martha Herlinawati, Raka Adji
Editor: Suharto
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