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Purbaya Polytechnic Institute (Purbayatech), officially named as Politeknik Purbaya Kabupaten Tegal, is a private polytechnic located in Tegal Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The polytechnic offers three-year vocational education in mechanical engineering, and information technology. As a non-degree educational institution, Purbayatech is authorized to award its graduate an Ahli Madya (A.Md) vocational title, phrase in Indonesian which has mean "middle-level expert".

Named after Raden Purbayasa, the first Head of Tegal Regency, the polytechnic established in 2002 under patronage of Yayasan Pertiwi Kabupaten Tegal (Pertiwi Foundation). At the same year, Minister of National Education, by Decision Letter No. 208/D/O/2002, granted the polytechnic operating permit. At April 30, 2008, Directorate General of Higher Education, Department of National Education extended the operating permit by publishing Decision Letter No. 1433/D/T/2008 and 1434/D/T/2008, which are addressed to Mechanical Engineering Study Program and Information Technology Study Program, respectively. Both of those two letters are applying until April 30, 2011.

The Purbayatech offers non-degree studies in :

• Mechanical engineering with a focus in mechanical systems design
• Information systems with a focus in free / open-source software based Information systems

Tegal has a long time reputation as center of plate metalworking home industries. However, the industries were run traditionally.

In January 2007, Purbayatech decided to apply free / open-source (FOSS) technology for its entire education processes.

List of FOSS that being used :

• Operating system  : GNU/Linux.
• Office suite  : OpenOffice.org
• Web browser  : Mozilla Firefox
• Engineering/Machine Drawing  : qCAD community edition
• Solid Modeling : Blender
• Web programming  : PHP
• RDMS : MySQL
• numerical computations : Scilab
• C++ compiler : GCC