IEEE INDONESIA SECTION

&

COMSOC CHAPTER

REPORT

Part A : Section Summary :

A-1. Executive Summary

During the period of 2005, the IEEE Indonesia Section had been successfully organized

and sponsored the following activities :

June 1-3, 2005

The visiting of Dr. Norman Mariun from Universiti Putra Malaysia (http://www.upm.edu.my/) to Jakarta (at Universitas Indonesia (http://www.ui.ac.id)) and Bandung (Institut Teknologi Bandung (http://www.itb.ac.id)).

Sponsor: IEEE Indonesia Section & COMSOC Chapter

Attendance:        IEEE members: 5

                           Guest                  : 50

Speakers            : Dr. Norman Mariun

Was this meeting joint with student branch(es)?: No 

Was this meeting part of the Distinguished Lecturers Program?: No 

Category             : Technical/Education/Professional

June 3, 2005

IEEE Presentation at Kapita Selekta at Department Information Technology, Universitas Kristen Maranatha (http://www.maranathe.edu).

Sponsor: IEEE Indonesia Section & COMSOC Chapter

Attendance:        IEEE members: 2

                           Guest                  : 50

Speakers            : Arief Hamdani

Was this meeting joint with student branch(es)?: No 

Was this meeting part of the Distinguished Lecturers Program?: No 

Category             : Technical/Education/Professional

April 13, 2005

IEEE Presentation at Universitas Pelita Harapan (http://ww.uph.edu)

Sponsor: IEEE Indonesia Section & COMSOC Chapter

Attendance:        IEEE members: 3

                           Guest                  : 30

Speakers            : Arief Hamdani, Nurain Silalahi

Was this meeting joint with student branch(es)?: No 

Was this meeting part of the Distinguished Lecturers Program?: No 

Category             : Technical/Education/Professional

August 3 – 5, 2005

2005 International Conference on Instrumentation, Communications and Information Technology (ICICI 2005) (http://www.icici2005.org)

Sponsor: IEEE Indonesia Section & COMSOC Chapter

Venue                 : Bandung, Indonesia

Attendance:        IEEE members: 5

                           Guest                  : 100

Speakers            : -

Was this meeting joint with student branch(es)?: No 

Was this meeting part of the Distinguished Lecturers Program?: No 

Category             : Technical/Education/Professional

August 9 – 10, 2005

The 8^th International Conference on Quality in Research  (QIR 2005)             Universitas Indonesia, Depok (http://www.qir-ftui.com)

Sponsor: IEEE Indonesia Section

Venue    : Universitas Indonesia – Depok

Sponsor: IEEE Indonesia Section & COMSOC Chapter

Attendance:        IEEE members: 5

                           Guest                  : 95

Speakers            : Dr. Ir. Wahidin Wahab

Was this meeting joint with student branch(es)?: Yes

Was this meeting part of the Distinguished Lecturers Program?: No 

Category             : Technical/Education/Professional

A-2 Financial Report

Financial Report will be submitted in other separate form.

A-3 Section Committee Officers :

The IEEE Indonesia Section officers in 2005 is as follows :

·  Section Chairman        : Prof. DR. Ir. Dadang Gunawan, M.Eng.

·  Vice Chairman            : Arief Hamdani Gunawan, ST.

·  Treasurer                   : DR. Ir. Wahidin Wahab, M.Sc.

·  Program Committee : Mr. Andreas Tedjasukmana

·  Membership Committee : tbd.

·  Student Committee : Riri Fitri Sari Sambowo, Ir., MM., M.Sc., Ph.D

·  Senior Adviser :          Mr. Arnold Ph. Djiwatampu, Ir., IPM

                                        DR. Ir. Djamhari Sirat, M.Sc.

Communication Chapter

·  Chapter Chair : Ir. Nurain Silalahi, MT.

·  Secretary/Treasurer : tbd

Part B : Organizational Activity

B-1 Membership Development Program

The proposed "Member get a Member" program has not been successful for this year.

B-2 Professional and Continuing Education Activity

Some short course are sponsored and organized in the section. These short courses are

opened for public. Response from members was not encouraging.

B-3 Recognize Education Program

None is organized in the section, as well as last year.

B-4 Student Activity

None is organized in the section.

B-5 Awards

None is organized in the section.

B-6 Conference Activities

Although the political and social crisis is still continued, section could supported two seminars with cooperation through universities.

• 2005 International Conference on Instrumentation, Communications and Information Technology (ICICI 2005) (http://www.icici2005.org) August 3 – 5, 2005; Bandung, Indonesia.
• The 8^th International Conference on Quality in Research  (QIR 2005) (http://www.qir-ftui.com) August 9 – 10, 2005; Universitas Indonesia – Depok

B-7 Chapter Activities

For this year, the Communication Chapter and Indonesia Section collaborated to establish some activities in universities as follows;

• IEEE Presentation at Kapita Selekta at Department Information Technology, Universitas Kristen Maranatha (http://www.maranathe.edu) at June 3, 2005
• IEEE Presentation at Universitas Pelita Harapan (http://ww.uph.edu) at April 13, 2005

Part C Goals and Plans

C-1 Goals

In 2006, the section has targeting on establishing three major international conferences and establishing circuit and system chapter in Indonesia.

The section has been preparing three major international conferences for the year 2006 as follows;

• The 9^th Quality in Research Seminar (August 2005) organized by Universitas Indonesia.
• The 8th International Conference on Properties and Application of Dielectric Materials  (ICPADM 2006) Bali, Indonesia; June 26 – 30, 2006 (http://www.icpadm2006.com/)
• The 6th  Asian Control Conference  (ASCC 2006)             Bali, Indonesia; July 18 – 21, 2006 (http://www.ascc2006.com/)

The section has been preparing and supporting for establishing circuit and system chapter by 2006.

C-2 Detail Implementation Plans

Other Technical Meeting that has been proposed are: Some Workshop that involved COMSOC Chapter and invite the distinguished lecturer from the IEEE societies.

C-3 Proposed Budget

The proposed budget for the section activities are given in the following :

Part D Others

D-1 Relationship with National Societies

Since the establishment of IEEE Indonesia Section in 1987, closed link with local or

national societies had been established such as follows :

1. The Indonesian Institution Engineer (PII Elektro)

2. Indonesian Telecommunication Society (MASTEL)

D-2 Special Events

None is organized in the Section.

D-3 Problems to be anticipated

1. Low participation of members to the local activities and even to be an officer.

2. The communication for members is still also poor.

Proposed Solutions:

1.      Make the intention for Electronic Communication Committee and establishing the information through web site.

2.      Official Meeting during the technical meeting.

3.      Road Show activity to introduce IEEE will be conducted in the middle of 2006.