Researchers from INSTIKI in Denpasar coauthored a 2025 study on the SEMAR internet-of-things server platform together with Okayama University and Universitas Brawijaya researchers.
Bali is a long way from Malang, but a shared research platform brought researchers from Institut Bisnis dan Teknologi Indonesia, known as INSTIKI, into the same paper as Lab MGM's Komang Candra Brata.
INSTIKI is a private institute in Denpasar focused on business and technology education. The paper connecting it to Lab MGM, published in the journal Information on 5 February 2025, describes a way to automate the setup of sensor inputs for SEMAR, an application server platform for connecting internet-connected devices such as smart lights, water heaters, and room temperature monitors. Its authors span two institutions: Nobuo Funabiki, Yohanes Yohanie Fridelin Panduman, and Komang Candra Brata of Okayama University's Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, and I Nyoman Darma Kotama, Anak Agung Surya Pradhana, and I Gusti Made Ngurah Desnanjaya, who are affiliated with INSTIKI's Department of Computer System Engineering in Denpasar.
Kotama and Pradhana hold joint appointments at both Okayama University and INSTIKI, which is the likely route through which this group came together. Brata, who is also affiliated with Universitas Brawijaya's Department of Informatics Engineering in his other published work, is the connection that puts this paper among Lab MGM's listed publications. The paper reports testing the approach on three practical setups: a smart light, a water heater, and a room temperature monitor. There is no indication of a signed cooperation agreement between INSTIKI and Universitas Brawijaya. What exists is one shared paper, built by researchers who already work together at Okayama, with INSTIKI's involvement running through two of its own faculty.
For a lab whose research reaches from Malang to Okayama, a coauthor in Denpasar is a small but real extension of the same network, worth describing plainly for what it is: a paper written together, not an institutional tie between the two campuses.
