The history of the Bandung Institute of Technology...

The history of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, at the initiative of the ruling community at that time. The initial aim of its establishment was to meet the needs of technical personnel which had become difficult due to the disruption of relations between the Netherlands and its colonies in the archipelago, as a result of the outbreak of the First World War. Technische Hoogeschool te Bandoeng (often abbreviated as TH te Bandoeng, TH Bandung, or THS) was established on July 3, 1920 as the first high school in the Dutch East Indies. [Note 6] TH Bandung was opened for the first time with a faculty namely de Faculteit van Technische Wetenschap only has one part, namely de afdeeling der Weg-en Waterbouwkunde. The ITB campus is a place where the first Indonesian president, Soekarno, won his engineering degree in the field of Civil Engineering. The duration of study to become an engineer is four years. Until its closure in 1942, THS had three parts (afdeeling) namely Civil (1920), Chemistry (1940), Machinery and Electricity (1941) but the last two parts had not yet had the chance to pass an engineer.

During the Japanese occupation, efforts to reopen the TH Bandung lecture were rejected explicitly, but research activities in laboratories on the TH Bandung campus were permitted. The community laboratory is called the Institute of Tropical Scientific Research which is manned by many TH Bandung academic staff.