Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic is a technical institute in Jakarta

Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...

, Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

 and is known as Polman. Polman is a term formed from the Indonesian

Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....

 words Politeknik Manufaktur check.

It was originally established as Federal Technic Academy in 1995. In the course of its development, the institution changed its name to Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic in 1999 under the sponsorship of Astra International

Astra International

Astra International was founded in 1957, based on a small trading business operated by brothers Tjia Kian Tie and William Soeryadjaya. The family had begun its trading activities by the 1940s, initially operated as a distributor of fruit juices and other agricultural and grocery goods, before...

, a conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

 based in Jakarta.

From 1995 through the end of 2003, Polman had graduated 404 students. Astra Group itself generally employs over half of the graduated student product.

Academics

Astra Politechnic provides study opportunities to an average of 200 students per year in the following areas:

1. Manufacturing Mechanical Engineering
   Mechanical engineering
   Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
   
   : established in 1995 in cooperation with ATMI Solo
   Surakarta
   Surakarta, also called Solo or Sala, is a city in Central Java, Indonesia of more than 520,061 people with a population density of 11,811.5 people/km2. The 44 km2 city adjoins Karanganyar Regency and Boyolali Regency to the north, Karanganyar Regency and Sukoharjo Regency to the east and...
   
   .
2. Production engineering
   Production engineering
   Production engineering is a combination of manufacturing technology with management science. A production engineer typically has a wide knowledge of engineering practices and is aware of the management challenges related to production...
   
    and Manufacturing Process: established in 1996 in cooperation with Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Bandung Institute of Technology
   Bandung Institute of Technology
   The Bandung Institute of Technology or Institute of Technology, Bandung is a state, coeducational research university located in Bandung, Indonesia. Established in 1920, ITB is the oldest technology-oriented university in Indonesia....
   
    (ITB
   ITB
   ITB may refer to:* Institut Teknologi Bandung, a prestigious engineering school in Indonesia* Institut Teknologi Brunei, an institute of higher learning in Brunei* Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, a regional technical college in Ireland...
   
   ).
3. Information Systems
   Information systems
   Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
   
   : established in 1999 in cooperation with Department of Information Technology of the Bandung Institute of Technology.
4. Automotive Engineering
   Automotive engineering
   Modern automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and marine engineering, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles,...
   
   : established in 2003 in cooperation with Astra automotive group and the Bandung Institute of Technology.
5. Mechatronic: established in 2005 with no special cooperation with other institution. This program is developed from some subjects that already exist in Polman study program, such as automation
   Automation
   Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...
   
   , electrical, mechanical
   Mechanics
   Mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment....
   
   , and computer
   Computer
   A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
   
   related subjects.