On September 19, 2016 Palestine Polytechnic University in Palestine  and The Institut Teknologi  Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) in  Indonesia  signed a memorandum of understanding  with the objective of facilitating mutual academic research and educational cooperation between the two countries.

 It was signed by Professor Imad Khatib, President  of Palestine Polytechnic University  in the presence of  Dr. Nidal al-Ja’bari  for the Indonesian side, engineer Alaa  Al-Ja’bari for the Ministry of the Higher Education in Hebron and Dr. Mustafa Abu Al-Safa,  the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Palestine Polytechnic University.