THE MICROELECTRONICS INFRASTRUCTURE IN INDONESIA

Onno W. Purbo, F. Ihsan Hariadi and Mervin Hutabarat
Inter University Center on Microelectronics
Institute of Technology Bandung
Bandung 40132, INDONESIA
Tel: 62-22 250-6280
FAX: 62-22 250-5442
iuc-me@itbgtw.itb.ac.id

OBJECTIVE

To report, the condition in Indonesia on:

  •	Microelectronics infratructure.
  •	Potential market.
  •	Research direction.

Focus on:

  •	Human resource development.
  •	International collaborations.

OUTLINE

  •	Introduction.

  •	Indonesia's Electronics & Microelectronics Infrastructure.

  •	Microelectronics Research in Indonesia.

  •	Summary.

SOME FACTS

  •	Telecommunication sector with investment in the order of US$ 0.6 billion by the year 2000 would be the most promising field for microelectronics industry as well as R&D in Indonesia.

  •	We require a significant effort and international collaborations to produce the qualified human resources needed to develop microelectronics industry in Indonesia.

INTRODUCTION

  •	Microelectronics infra-structure in Indonesia is its infancy with a significant research and development in telecommunication sector in the future.

  •	Major investment in acquiring qualified human resources should be significantly increased to meet the industrial demand.

  •	Three major research institute in microelectronics in Indonesia:

	  	IUC Microelectronics at ITB.
	  	Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI).
	  	PT. LEN Industry.

  •	The IUC ME is  responsible for the development of human resources.

  •	International collaboration is required as the IUC-ME at ITB has very limited staff members.

THE INDONESIAN ELECTRONICS AND MICROELECTRONICS INFRASTRUCTURE

Number of electronics companies (in 1993):

  •	Consumer electronics	78
  •	Industrial electronics		156
  •	Component electronics	63

	Total					295

Total output:
						(1993)		(pred.1999)
  •	Total output			US$ 2.0M	US$ 10M
  •	Export commodities	US$ 1.2M	US$ 5M

Number of employee:

	(1993)		(pred.1999)
  •	100,000	150,000

Condition:

  •	Consumer electronics has a significantly better capability than other sector. Altough, it is basically only an assembly plant with no R&D.

  •	In other sector, Indonesia has to rely heavily on imported equipments and components.

MICROELECTRONICS RESEARCH IN INDONESIA

A glimpse on our facility in Indonesia:

  •	Laser direct writing (at 1 micron resolution) based on InterTech system (Burnaby, Canada).

  •	Full Custom IC Processing facility (at approx. 20 micron resolution) with Ion implant capability hosted in four class 10,000 clean rooms of 150 sq. meters each.

  •	IC design facilities, with approximately 15 workstations running Berkeley, Stanford, RMIT, UNSW tools as well as commercial tools such as Mentor Graphics.

  •	Field programmable gate array (Xilinx's logic cell array) development system based.

MAJOR RESEACH TOPICS

  •	In telecommunication and information technology
	  	Design and Implementation of Image Processor: a matching co-processor.
	  	Integrated Image Map and Position Detection Using GPS Satellite.
	  	Development of High-Speed Regional Packet Radio Computer Network.
	  	Design and Implementation Chip for Switching Matrix for Central Telephone.
	  	CD-ROM based multi-media information system.
	  	PCM Interface IC Design.
	  	Build & Launch Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Micro Satellite.
  •	In bio-medical electronics
	  	Computed Impedance Tomography.
  •	In IC Design, Processing and Instrumentation
	  	Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Semiconductor Devices for Power Electronics Application.
	  	Development of Thick Film Sensors.
	  	Microelectronics Instrumentation: Ultra Sonic Sensors using PVDF film for application in liquid, solid and transducer array.
	  	Reconfiguration for Wafer Scale Integration.
	  	Microwave Monolithic Integrated Circuits.
	  	Gate Array based 64Kbps MSK packet radio modem.

SUMMARY

  •	With large investment in telecommunication industries, the microelectronics industries in Indonesia have to be able to penetrate its output into the telecommunication market.

  •	More than half of the research done in our institute is in telecommunication and information systems.

  •	The large potential of work in the Indonesia requires a significant number of qualified human resources as well as international collaborations.

Technological Capability of Indonesia's Electronics Industry
Technology	Consumer
Elec.	Business/
Industry	Components	
Production				
•Layout	 4	 1	 3	
•Assembly	 3	 2	 3	
•Inventory	 3	 2	 2	
•Quality	 3	 1	 2	
•Productivity	 2	 1	 1	
Technology				
•Circuit	 2	 1	 1	
•Mechanical	 2	 1	 NA	
•Testing	 2	 1	 NA	
•Competitiveness	 3	 2	 NA	

Marking Scheme 5=Perfect down to 1=Poor