TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) will conduct a science exhibition called LIPI Expo 2008 at the Sahid Jaya Hotel, Jakarta, from August 4-6. The exhibition is to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of National Awakening Day, 80-years of the Youth Pledge, 10 years of reformation, and the 41st LIPI anniversary.Head of LIPI, Umar Anggara Jenie, said that the exhibition is to measure the performance of LIPI. Scientific activity shows LIPIs contribution on selected research that can benefit the public and industry, he said.LIPI Expo will be opened by Vice President Jusuf Kalla, presenting 100 inventions produced in 2003 to 2007. The inventions cover eight themes of food, health, and its design, molecular farming, instruments, energy, transportation, defense and security, natural resources and the environment, publication of technological products, and social science. Through research between LIPI and the Agriculture Department, paddy is developed with stronger resistance to the dry season and plant disease. At the present, LIPI has designed a special soyseed that can produce a larger-size soy up to 3.7 tons/hectare. LIPI
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