Note from IAEC Chairman Ananta Widjaja
Network Fostering, Aeronautical Ecosystem and Technology Innovation in Indonesia
Ananta Widjaja has dedicated over 29 years to the aviation industry, particularly in airline maintenance. He graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from ITB in 1994 and began his career at Garuda Indonesia. Starting as a Base Maintenance Technician, he rose to GM of Engineering Planning & Development by 2005. During his tenure at Garuda, he earned a Master in Aviation Management from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
In 2005, Ananta joined Jazeera Airways in Kuwait as Engineering Service Manager, helping establish the first private airline in the Middle East. Returning to Indonesia in late 2010, he became Technical Director of Sriwijaya Air, overseeing its expansion from 15 to 56 aircraft, making it Indonesia's third-largest and highly profitable airline.
In 2016, Ananta founded PT Aerozeta Engineering, a consultancy specializing in aircraft inspection, modifications, and business plan development. He also served as Director of Business and Base Operations at GMF AeroAsia from 2021 to 2023.
Ananta is an educator at IULI and ITB, teaching Airline Operations and Aviation Management. He is a frequent speaker at national and international seminars on airline and aircraft maintenance topics.
His motto: “Together, we will make IAEC (Indonesian Aeronautical Engineering Center ) GREAT.”
After the aeronautical engineering industry ecosystem grows well, engineering companies are expected not just involved at the national level, but also be able to move at global level. Opportunities in aeronautical engineering at the global level are tremendously huge, as the global aircraft industry is implementing the strategy of risk-sharing by outsourcing most of the work to the independent aircraft engineering companies. Indonesia with its experience in developing previous national aircraft such as CN235 and N250, have an enormous opportunity to be the prominent player in a global scale.
IAEC will fill the lack of the national aviation industry puzzle especially in aeronautical engineering. IAEC will complement INACOM and IAMSA who had first attended revive the aircraft component manufacturing and aircraft maintenance in Indonesian aeronautical industry. IAEC, INACOM and IAMSA will cooperate and work together to advance the national aeronautical industry, so that the entire line of the industry both in terms of engineering, manufacturing and maintenance will be explored properly.
To reach the big dream of aeronautical engineering, IAEC will establish a strategic partnership with all stakeholders in the aeronautical industry, both at national and global level. This strategic partnership is required in order to give engineering companies to access not just the latest aircraft technology, but also to have an access to the aviation markets both nationally and globally.
Domestically, the IAEC will establish strategic partnerships with companies such as PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI), PT Regio Aviasi Industi (RAI), Garuda Maintenance Force (GMF), and others. For the global market, the IAEC are actively pioneering strategic partnership with the global aircraft industries. To possibly make the partnership going sustainably, IAEC is conducting an intensive training for its members, so IAEC members shall be ready to establish a strategic partnership with the global aviation industry.
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