Lecturers as Laborers

Indonesian scientists are alienated from their own work because they do not have the spirit of academic freedom and only fulfill the government's administrative obligations.

At the present time, being a lecturer is not the ideal occupation for smart people in Indonesia, and this can lead to a future disaster. Lecturers have become the target of constantly changing policies, and this harms them because the goal is their subordination.

The ideal of the nation’s founders, such as Soepomo, to ensure that universities should not submit to the government so they can spread their knowledge to restore the golden age of the Sriwijaya kingdom as a center of international knowledge, has been ignored.