Indonesia Short on Researchers, LIPI Says
Indonesia would need some 200,000 additional researchers across the sciences in order to catch up with the rate of technological advance in countries with strong research programs, the Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI) said on Wednesday.
"At present, the number of researchers in Indonesia is insignificant and not enough compared to the [country's] population," Lukman Hakim, the head of the Institute, told the state-run Antara News Agency.
Speaking from Surabaya, Lukman said that LIPI itself had only 8,000 researchers, who worked exclusively as research scientists, while double that number were working at public universities across the archipelago.
In addition to these 24,000 researchers, he said, there was an unknown number of others who were affiliated with private institutions.
"Advanced states are conscious of the importance of scientific research in developing industrial competitiveness for their economic growth," he said, citing the example of Belarus, a small country that has 36 researchers per 10,000 people. Indonesia, on the other hand, has one per 10,000.
If Indonesia wanted to become one of the world's top 10 economies, he said, it would have to develop its technology research capabilities and provide more funding to finance research.
"The number of researchers should be increased, because the current, small number is not normal," he said.
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