Career Regulations need to Involve Lectures
The government is urged to make fundamental changes to [the regulation to] enhance the profession of lecturers.
Hundreds of lecturers and education staff (Tendik) with non-civil servant (PNS) status at the Sultan Syarif Kasim State Islamic University (UIN Suska) Riau in Pekanbaru, Monday (17/4/2023), demanded justice to be able to become ASN lecturers for Government Employees with the Employment Agreement.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Career regulations for lecturers in Indonesia are considered insufficient in supporting academics to advance the nation through knowledge development. The dream of Indonesian academics receiving the Nobel Prize, the highest recognition for scientists, is becoming increasingly more unattainable, and there is a threat of a loss of academics due to their decision to settle abroad.
The Indonesian Young Scientists Academy (Almi) secretary-general Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman, stated that Almi had formed a team to formulate legal opinions regarding the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministerial Regulation (Permenpan and RB) No. 1 of 2023 concerning functional positions, which govern the profession of civil servant lecturers.