Many lecturers are busy teaching in several different schools and they don’t have enough time to do any research; because scientific research is more time and energy-consuming. To get a competitive research grant from the Directorate General of Higher Learning, lecturers should submit proposals. However, not all of them will get research grant because they have to compete. They think it’s easier for them to earn more cash by teaching in several universities. They can get their remunerating immediately. ”Consequently, there are very few research conducted,” she asserted.

As a result, not many scientific works of Indonesian lecturers published in international journals. The data gathered from international publishers revealed that Indonesia only contributed 0.012 percent. This is lower than Nepal that contributes 0.014 %; even though Nepal is a smaller country and less – developed compared to Indonesia. ”Compared to Singapore, we are lagged far behind. Singapore contributes 0.179 % in international journals,” she said. Mien brushed off pretext of lacking of funds. Because there are enough fund available. “The Directorate General of Higher learning provided Rp 240 billion last year,” she said. Another assessor, Suminar S Achmadi, said it would need a long time to improve lecturer’s capacity.