STARTING his position as a researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) in early September 2021, Ibnu Maryadi was given a budget of Rp20 million for his project. Since then, he has already submitted two lists for materials he needed. However, this taxonomy professor who used to work at the biology research division of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), has yet to receive the materials he requested.

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