The strategy taken Directorate General of higher education (Ditjen higher education) is also interesting technically. In order to improve the quality of scientific journals in Indonesia, last January, higher education — along with research institutions and community development ITB — launched the Citations Index Indonesia. Looking ahead, it is expected that page could be a database of abstracts and citations in national scale.
Build networks capable of accommodating scientific publications lecturer and researcher in the country that is certainly good measures dispersal. However, at the same time, as editor of the scientific journal national implementers, I feel myself how to write scientific culture — literature review supported the serious, robust data, and analysis that is able to uncover how findings will be of benefit to a wider public — very rare.
Higher education and ITB as Ditjen executor takes steps using progressive technical development of information technology to address the lack of scientific publications in the country. But, if the scientific publications that rare quality, whether the increasing number of citations the articles will result in improved quality of keilmuannya?
Rather than exposing the structural problems of the normative basis, I would like to convey that the lack of scientific publications it is negligence. Structural problems with reflective explained by teachers at the University of Indonesia (build on top of the ruins of integrity, 2012).
The problems at higher education system in the country has also become a discussion since the 1990s. this problem more complex around the year 2000s. With State-owned legal entity status, where campus autonomy in terms of finance was not correlated with improved quality of education.
Speaking in the context of universities (PTN) where I work, many professors who did not had time to write and work as charged six courses (18 CREDITS) per semester (equivalent to 30-35 hours of work per week) outside the structural position (equivalent to the position of Manager of the company, as well as 30-35 hours per week). This is due to changes in the status of the PTN has implications for the financial system that undermines the Department's leaders are projecting how many new professors need to be recruited to tackle inequality ratios lecturer-student.
Therefore, the measures taken are short-term solutions that are very pragmatic. Sebutlah granting excessive workload or deliver courses is not appropriate due to the lack of expertise of professors anyway.
About academic quality improvement, higher education strives to develop the capacity of actually being a lecturer by giving Doctoral Scholarship for a study abroad. However, due to structural problems of yesteryear have yet to overcome, when it returned to the motherland again given their lecturers teaching loads are heavy, which made it more difficult for them to work.
There is no increase in the number of scientific papers since these scholarships available because of the lack of teaching resource problems have not been resolved. No wonder that Indonesia lagged far compared to countries in the same regional (Evers, 2003). As an illustration, Singapore has 94 international journals and has 45 International Journal of Malaysia, while Indonesia only has 12 international journals.
Think of a solution
Taking into account the realities of structural barriers, then higher education initiatives through the Citations Index Indonesia will not be fruitful. So did the steps of higher education doctoral scholarships specifically for limiting a course to produce publications in international journals. The problem, every program of study is not able to establish a healthy academic environment that inhibits the development of the capacity of researchers and professors.
Therefore, if the objective, to improve the quality of research and scientific publications, the first to be done not just spawn a policy from above, but also the identification of the problem below: understanding the roots of the reality of the everyday life of teachers.
As an illustration, there is one international journal — obscure reviewers and its origin — who offered a lecturer "developing countries" to republish the work at a cost of 1,000 US dollars by sending electronic mail simultaneously. Laissez-faire solutions of this kind arise because certain parties identified the existence of a "request" that are not coupled capabilities of the parties involved to fulfill them. If higher education could not immediately fill the vacuum of space, this is the kind of solution that is likely to be taken, as do so many other sectors in our country.
Therefore, the first to do is to provide training to teaching staff to build a culture of academic writing. However, as the senior researcher of the Interior which has a recognized publication international colleagues is very rare, will be less effective if the training is run by in-house at each University. Consequently, this training should involve academics Indonesia was also a clerk in a number of educational institutions in countries such as Australia, the Netherlands, and Japan, which has a strong research base of Indonesia.
Scheme for Academic Mobility programs in 2013 (SAME) that fund the cooperation between educational institutions in and outside the country can accommodate this kind of training. So, for that matter can be realized training and funds already allocated higher education. The thing is, whether any parties involved are able to independently of network to be part of the solution.
Inaya Rakhmani Teachers and Doctoral Candidate UI Asia Research Center, Murdoch University
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