Recently, cyber domain becomes the most threatened ecosystem with various attack and
threat that are getting increased and varied. Moreover, cybercrime becomes the biggest
threat in industry and government from all over the world.
To face this kind of dynamic, a systemic effort is needed. One of them is multilateral
partnership in local, regional or even global. An intensive interaction with researchers in
cybersecurity in various universities and research institutions, including communication
development and strengthen the partnership with industry and government is needed.
Keio University, Japan, that was established by Yukichi Fukuzawa in 1858 has long record
as one of the oldest university in Japan and played important contribution in the birth of
internet technology and IoT for 25 years by Profesor Jun Murai who is known as “The
Father of Internet in Japan” by WIDE Project (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment)
in 1985.
On November 1 st 2016, Keio University was the first university in the world that has
International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE) to develop strategic
collaboration in cybersecurity for research and academic by involving famous university in
United States, England and Japan such as Stanford, George Mason, Carnegie-Mellon,
Delaware, Royal-Holloway, Waseda dan Kyushu, and also industry and government
parties.
Faculty of Engineering of Universitas Indonesia (FTUI), now becomes the only ASEAN
representative that participating in this strategic cooperation. FTUI delegation was
represented by Dr. Ir. Hendri DS. Budiono, M.Eng as Dean of FTUI, Prof. Dr-Ing.
Kalamullah Ramli, M.Eng and Dr. Muhammad Salman, ST, MIT from Computer
Engineering study program of DTE-FTUI.
The cooperation agreement officially realized by the signing of MoA that was done in Keio
University, Mita Campus, Tokyo on March 29 th 2018 by Dean of FTUI and Prof Jun Murai
as Dean of Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. The signing event
was witnessed by Arifin Tasrif, Indonesia Ambassador for Japan and Profesor Akira
Haseyama, President of Keio University.
The MoA signing was also part of annual conference and symposium in Cybersecurity at
Keio University on March 29 th to 30 th 2018. Cybersecurity experts from various industries
and university partner representatives who participating (including FTUI) delivered their
thoughts related to recent update in innovative technology and cybersecurity policy
development from various part of the world and also various initiatives that has been done
in cybersecurity in academic, research and other activities.
Hopefully this cooperation will be beneficial and gives the best result in order to develop
