Academic Insularity
Its easy language, academic insularity is like "frogs under the coconut shell."
Ahmad Najib Burhani
Various issues and problems in our academic world become recurring discussions in 2023. Among them are related to the sale of titles, jockey services on campus for promotion or becoming professors, cases of plagiarism, professionalism of scientists, commercialization and industrialization of educational institutions, academic insularity, as well as related to functional position rules that make the time period to become a professor quite long.
In a discussion at the National Research Innovation Agency (BRIN) Region Research Center (PRW) on 7 March 2023, Vedi R Hadiz, an Indonesian scientist who became the vice rector at Melbourne University, discussed various forms of academic insularity in Indonesia and problems that shake academics.