IPB University, also known as Bogor Agricultural University, is based in Bogor, West Java. Its history page says it was formally established on 1 September 1963 and grew out of the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Bogor. It has nine faculties and several schools, and campuses including Dramaga and Baranangsiang.
The Faculty of Agriculture, on the Dramaga campus, has departments of Soil Science and Land Resources, Agronomy and Horticulture, and Plant Protection, among others. University research centres include the Research Center for Tropical Horticulture, the Southeast Asian Food and Agricultural Science and Technology Center (SEAFAST), a centre for engineering in tropical agriculture and a business incubator, INCUBIE. The history page says action research that began in 1963 in Karawang contributed to higher national rice output. In its review of 2025, IPB lists the procurement of 3,156 tonnes of IPB rice seed for Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture and the establishment of an IPB-KOICA Rice Innovation Center on campus, and says it reached 8,350 villages.