Coming In From The Cold

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

University researchers in Indonesia seem to have worked in isolation, away from the world around them. For decades they have worked with little funding. But beginning next year the Directorate General of Higher Education, Department of National Education, will allocate Rp500 billion in funding for university research programs-three times the amount for the current year. Many new research programs are expected as a result, including programs that will attract participation of more undergraduate students.

Tempo shines the spotlight on research tradition in Indonesian universities, including research programs that have produced benefits to people at large and been named to the civitas academica.

Hopefully, Indonesian researchers won't live and work in loneliness and isolation any longer.

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THEIR stories are like stories from another world. With limited funding and little appreciation, university researchers in Indonesia seem to work in a world untouched by the glamour of the institutions they work with.

Take Hajrial Aswidinnoor, a researcher at Bogor Institute of Agriculture, whose dedication to his work seems boundless. For the past eight years Hajrial has been working on a new rice variety, one that grows minimally with over 250 s

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