Gunaryadi

(To be published in the incoming EurAsia Bulletin, European Institute for Asian Studies [EIAS], Brussels)

The international competitiveness of Indonesia’s higher education has been quite alarming. From the ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities 2005’ of the Shanghai Jiao Tong Univer-sity, no Indonesian university listed in the best 100s. In 2000, the Asiaweek placed Bandung Institute of Technology merely at the 21st and Indonesian University at the 61st. Concurrently a list made by the Webometric indicating the commitment to publish in the cyberspace, only the Bandung Institute attained the Asia’s 49th or the world’s 707th. (more…)