Indonesian Universities: Change Agents in ASEAN Benyamin Lakitan

Indonesian Universities:
Change Agents in ASEAN ?
Benyamin Lakitan
25 Years DAAD in Jakarta
DAAD-Alumni Meeting
Jakarta 27-29 March 2015
“The government shall advance science and technology
with the highest respect for religious values and
national unity for the advancement of civilization and
prosperity of humankind.”
Article 31(5)
The 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia
“If we talk about innovation and the future,
we will have to talk about universities and research.
Unless Indonesia leap-frogs into research output and innovation,
it will be very difficult to sustain wealth.”
(Jansen, 2012)
http://www.worldfolio.co.uk/reports/indonesia/irene-jansen-director-of-the-german-academicexchange-service-daad-in-jakarta-indonesia-n1562#sthash.DDL8jDp0.dpuf
“Knowledge provision is not enough to establish the university as
a change agent. Ownership of knowledge within local and
regional communities has to be achieved. This ownership can
best be attained through joint knowledge generation.”
(Peer and Stoeglehner, 2013)
Peer, V. Stoeglehner, G. 2013. Universities as change agents for sustainability e framing the role of
knowledge transfer and generation in regional development processes. Journal of Cleaner Production 44:85-95
“Universities that want to act as change agents have to
thoroughly consider collaborative ways of research and
education in informal learning environments so that knowledge
demand, knowledge transfer, and knowledge generation can be
negotiated and jointly determined between local and regional
societies and universities.”
(Peer and Stoeglehner, 2013)
Peer, V. Stoeglehner, G. 2013. Universities as change agents for sustainability e framing the role of
knowledge transfer and generation in regional development processes. Journal of Cleaner Production 44:85-95
“As universities do not have only the function to create experts
for the current world of work, but (also) to educate students to
challenge the conventional wisdom; university could chose a
proactive role and could educate students to become change
agents in economy and society.”
(Teichler, 2013)
Teichler, U. 2013. Universities - Between the Expectations to Generate Professionally Competences and
Academic Freedom: Experiences from Europe. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 77:421 – 428
History is changed when we put into it the technology that
counts: not only the famous spectacular technologies but
also the low and ubiquitous ones ...
(Edgerton, 2006)
• Edgerton, David. 2006. The Shock of the Old. Profile Books Ltd., London
Existing Landscape
• Low academic productivity (alumni, publication,
patent, royalty)
• Mismatch to real needs and problems
• Weak networks (among universities; and between
university and business, society, government)
Yearly articles published by selected ASEAN
countries, 2002-2011 (Lakitan et al, 2012)
Current path of Indonesian Universities contribution to
economic development (Lakitan, 2013)
Lakitan et al., 2012
Pre-requisites for Becoming Change Agent
• Being sensitive and readiness to response to people,
business community, and government needs (Ivory
tower era should be terminated!)
• Being proud as part of mission-oriented networks, do
not necessarily to lead them. Networks should be
measured by their results, not their size.
• Being proud to be Indonesian
Core of Innovation System (Lakitan, 2013)
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
GRASSROOTS INNOVATION
SOCIAL
DIMENSION
ENVIRONMENTAL
DIMENSION
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PRODUCTIVE
ECONOMIC DIMENSION
Responding to ASEAN Community Challenges
Indonesian Universities should play significant roles in:
• Improving competitiveness of human resources (professionals
and skilled workers).
• Creating relevant, affordable, and competitive technologies.
• Improving national capacity in managing natural resources.
• Encouraging and supporting investment on processing and
manufacturing industries.
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