Hope Diaspora and Asa RI Merdeka in technology

Posted On: October 3, 2021

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

The United State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) will be 76 years old on August 17, 2021. Even though it has been independent for more than half a century, Indonesia needs to strive harder to be independent and independent, especially in the field technology and science.

To achieve this, the government will, among other things, call back the diaspora to Indonesia. With the return of the diaspora, the collaboration between research, development and application evaluation institutions with similar institutions abroad should be bridged.

National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) head Laksana Tri Handoko admitted that he needed to bring together superior Indonesian talent who would become the main asset for advancing domestic technology and science research.

He is optimistic that this can be achieved despite the doubts of many parties who say that many Indonesian experts are more respected abroad and do not want to develop ideas and innovations in the country.

As for finances, the government admits it can’t make big promises, but at least Handoko admits he can compete with Malaysia.

“Now we have a lot of young people whom we train at home and abroad to obtain a doctorate. At least when we’re here, we’re already in competition with Malaysia, at least in terms of salary. CNNIndonesia.com.

The next step that makes BRIN optimistic that the diaspora will return to Indonesia is that the government is currently ready to give them the opportunity to conduct research in their respective fields.

“Because it’s not easy for the diaspora to survive abroad, right, so let’s give them a choice. There should be quite a lot of people who want to,” he said.

He acknowledged that RI’s younger generation, sent abroad and doing a PhD with a scholarship program, could reach up to 1,000 people a year.

“Maybe there are fewer than 150 people who are passionate about being researchers. So if we can only invite half of the 1,000 we can invite to RI, that’s very good,” he said.

Handoko claimed that he had communicated with the Indonesian diaspora, stressing that returning to their homeland does not mean that they will only be housed in BRIN or LIPI until they retire. However, they are currently being distributed to other campuses and research institutes.

“If you just retire at BRIN, you can stagnate later. In the meantime we still need a lot, especially for Campus. There is nothing wrong with that, “concluded Handoko.