Advanced ceramics have a wide application, mostof them are used as a ceramic component of electronics, telecomunication, sensor, bio technology, structural! engineeringmaterial etc. Advanced ceramic industries in Indonesia are still not developed yet until now, except for a few component suchas subtract for automotive catalytic conventer or ceramic honey comb, spark plug, glass reinforced polymer composites andceramic electronic components, Efforts to developedevelop and advanced ceramics products due to un availabily of the rawmaterials which produced in country are still limited in the field ofresearchs done by R&D institutes using imported materials.The goverment should invite the investor persuasively 'to invest ther money to beneficiate the local raw material resources suchas bouxite, zircon sand, magnetite, ilmenit, magnesite/dolomite, graphite, silica sand or quartz and phosphate rock that arepotentially found in the country, It is very important in order to accelerate and emphasis the growth of aDvanced ceramiccomponent industries and develop the applied research on an advanced ceramics field.Kata kuncl: Advance ceramic, Katalis converter, spark plug, Komposit gelas. Suripto, R.I.F. Wenas daft Fanani Hamzah; Peneliti pada Balai Besar Industri Keramik Bandung
