During his visit to Jakarta, the Rector of the Adisutjipto Institute of Aerospace Technology, First Marshal of the TNI. Dr. Ir. Arwin Datumaya Wahyudi Sumari, S.T., M.T., IPU, ASEAN Eng., ACPE. signed an MoU on cooperation with the Indonesian Smart Network Initiative (PJCI) and the Ekatama Advisory Initiative (PEA), on Thursday (14/09/2023). The MoU covers cooperation in the Tri Dharma of Higher Education (Education and Teaching, Research and Development, Community Service), as well as Science and Technology Development, Training and Human Resources Development and Expert Assistance between ITD Adisutjipto and the two institutions.

Non-Governmental Organization or in Indonesian called a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) which was founded in 2015, which brings together experts in the field of smart networks or smart grids whose main goal is to develop technological institutions, regulations, education and entrepreneurship as well as compiling a systematic road map implementation of Smart Grid as a solution towards a Smart Indonesia. Meanwhile, Prakarsa Ekatama Advisory is a company operating in the field of energy and electricity consultancy services, which was founded in 2008.

The signing of this collaboration was carried out directly by the Rector of ITD Adisutjipto with Ikhsan Asaad I. Moh. Ikhsan Asaad as Chair of the Indonesian Smart Network Initiative and Ir. Eddie Widiono, MM., M.Sc., as Director of the Ekatama Advisory Initiative. Through this MoU with PJCI and PEA, it is hoped that in the future ITD Adisutjipto can partner or collaborate with experts and industry in the Smart Grid field, so that later technologies can be developed in order to welcome industry 4.0, for example, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and related big data analytics, and so on. So that later there can be exchanges of lecturers and students, internship programs and so on. This is very much in line with the ITD Adisutjipto program as an Independent Campus.