“This project presents major challenges and strategic opportunities for science, technology and industry,” Higher Education Minister Brian Yuliarto said, citing needs for hydrodynamic modeling, adaptive construction, material innovation and socioeconomic analysis.
Yuliarto said the ministry is mobilizing professors, lecturers and researchers to conduct studies on technologies and community conditions linked to the large-scale project.
He said the effort aligns with President Prabowo Subianto’s push to strengthen domestic technological capability in developing the seawall.
“We want this project to become a platform for technology transfer and mastery by national talent,” Yuliarto said, adding Indonesia aims to gain recognition in seawall technology.
Prabowo has designated the northern Java seawall as a national strategic project to protect more than 30 million residents from land subsidence and rising sea levels.
At an April 20 meeting, the president instructed the ministry to involve universities, prompting plans for formal cooperation to integrate research and innovation into construction.
Leading institutions, including IPB University, Bandung Institute of Technology, Diponegoro University and Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, are contributing expertise and technical studies.
The initiative reflects the ministry’s broader goal of ensuring higher education, science and technology play a practical role in addressing national challenges.
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