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Purbaya Polytechnic Institute

Politeknik Purbaya Kabupaten Tegal
Type	Private
Established	September 232002
Director	Ir. Hadi Sasmito
Academic staff	25
Students	49
Other students	49 vocational education
Location	Tegal Regency , Central Java , Indonesia
Nickname	Purbayatech
Affiliations	APTISI
Website	http://www.purbaya.ac.id

Purbaya Polytechnic Institute (Purbayatech), officially named as Politeknik Purbaya Kabupaten Tegal, is a private polytechnic located in Tegal Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The polytechnic offers three-year vocational education in mechanical engineering, and information system. As a non-degree educational institution, Purbayatech is authorized to award its graduate an Ahli Madya (A.Md) vocational title, phrase in Indonesian which has mean "middle-level expert".

Named after Raden Purbayasa, the first Head of Tegal Regency, the polytechnic established in 2002 under patronage of Yayasan Pertiwi Kabupaten Tegal (Pertiwi Foundation). At the same year, Minister of National Education, by Decision Letter No. 208/D/O/2002, granted the polytechnic operating permit. At April 30, 2008, Directorate General of Higher Education, Department of National Education extended the operating permit by publishing Decision Letter No. 1433/D/T/2008 and 1434/D/T/2008, which are addressed to Mechanical Engineering Study Program and Information System Study Program, respectively. Both of those letters apply until April 30, 2011.

The Purbayatech offers non-degree studies in :

• Mechanical engineering with a focus in mechanical systems design
• Information systems with a focus in free / open-source software based Information systems

The Mechanical Engineering Study Program is intended to produce middle-level experts whose competent to :

• Read and create technical/mechanical drawing according to ISO standard
• Create three dimensional drawing of mechanical system
• Design mechanical part or system
• Compute the strength of mechanical system construction
• Schedule and compute cost of prototype realization
• Use information technology for the sake of effective and efficient works

The Information System Study Program is intended to is intended to produce middle-level experts whose competent to :

• Develope software based on GNU/Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP(GLAMP)
• Administrate GNU/Linux operating system
• Desingn and administrate GNU/Linux based computer networs
• Implement website content management system
• Implement e-commerce concept on small and middle size business
• Use office suite word processor, spreadsheet and presentation

Tegal has a long time reputation as center of plate metalworking home industries. However, the industries were run traditionally.

Since January 2007, Purbayatech started to implement free / open-source (FOSS) technology into its whole academic and administrative activities.

List of FOSS that being used are:

• Algorithm and Data Structure Laboratory : Java
• C compiler : GCC
• Technical / Engineering Drawing  : qCAD community edition
• Numerical computations : Scilab
• Office suite  : OpenOffice.org
• Operating system  : GNU/Linux
• RDMS : MySQL
• Solid modeling : Blender
• Web browser  : Mozilla Firefox
• Web programming  : PHP
• Web Server Configuration Training  : Apache