Lecturers reluctant to do research

Lecturers reluctant to do research

JAKARTA: The country's lack of a scientific culture has
resulted in little research being done by universities,
especially those in eastern Indonesia, a university rector said
on Wednesday.

"The reason for the lack of research is the absence of a
culture of lecturers doing research work," the rector of the Sam
Ratulangi University in Manado, Lefrand Winston Sondakh, said
during a hearing with House of Representatives Commission VII for
research, technology and the environment.

Lefrand said fewer than 20 percent of junior lecturers at his
university had done any research work over the past five years.

"The percentage of senior lecturers who do research work is
even lower," he said. --JP