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More promoted professors in Sulawesi, but universities still perform poorly

More academics become professors in Sulawesi than anywhere else in Indonesia

Gemma Holliani Cahya (The Jakarta Post)
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Fri, April 19, 2019

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espite Sulawesi producing a disproportionate number of professors, universities in the region are still performing poorly compared to those in other regions of the country.   

Data from the 2018 Higher Educational Statistical Year Book issued by the Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry show that the professor-lecturer ratio in Sulawesi is the largest in Indonesia with 2.5 percent of a total of 26,686 lecturers on the island being professors.

Java followed slightly behind Sulawesi; of a total of 134,145 lecturers on Java, 2.4 percent are professors.

The ministry’s Information and Data Center said the high prevalence of professors on the island had existed for several years.  

Higher education professionals, however, have questioned the phenomenon as the trend has yet to have a significant impact on the quality of higher education on the island.

“I don’t see their impact on the quality of higher education in Sulawesi. So far, I only see the impact of it on the development of universities’ accreditation,” the secretary of the Indonesian Lecturers Association (ADI) in South Sulawesi, Mulyadi Hamid, told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

The ministry’s latest list of the country’s top 100 universities is more telling. The 2018 list showed that Java dominated the list with 69 universities. Sumatra came second with 12 universities, while Sulawesi was in third place with eight.

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