Academics Make Petitions Ask Jokowi to Cancel Merger to BRIN

A number of academics created a petition asking the President Jokowi to cancel the plan to merge research institutions into the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Until Sunday (9/1) at 18.50 WIB, the petition on the page Change.org it has been signed by 3,998 people.

The Narrative Institute as the initiator of the petition rejected President Jokowi’s plan to merge several independent research institutions into BRIN.

They considered that this decision could create new problems that would hinder the future of research in Indonesia. One of them is related to the issue of lost human resources due to existing smelting regulations.

“The issue of institutional fusion collided with the rules of bureaucratization of researchers, which resulted in not recruiting the best researchers at the institution. Even though they are proven researchers with doctoral education, master’s and bachelor’s degrees,” said Achmad Hidayat, representative of the Narration Institute, when confirmed, Sunday (9/09/2020). 1).

Hidayat explained that those who had been working in research institutions had to be removed because they only had the status of contract researchers. In fact, many of them have received awards by the state.

He predicts, with the current regulations, as many as 1,500-1,600 non-PNS researchers from 38 other institutions will be eliminated in the smelting process.

They then urged Jokowi to return the merged institution to its institutional origin. Meanwhile, the BRIN that has been formed is used as a research coordinator in Indonesia.

“We, the Alliance of Children of the Nation Care for Research and the Progress of the Nation, are concerned about the step of merging these institutions. BRIN does not need to merge various existing research institutions,” he explained.

Nevertheless, he admitted that he appreciated President Jokowi’s steps to improve the Research Ecosystem in Indonesia as a follow-up to the National Science and Technology System Law.

The researchers, he said, also agreed with the idea of ​​improving the effectiveness and efficiency of research institutions in order to support national development. However, to achieve this goal, it is not by combining various research institutions into one.

“If the President is pleased, we are happy to convey our thoughts and ideas regarding the very basic problems faced by our research institutions and require reforms that can only be implemented if supported by political will Father,” said Achmad Hidayat.

“With various considerations from all competent and concerned parties (as the name attached) we urge President Joko Widodo to correct Presidential Decree No. 78 of 2021 and form an independent team that focuses on providing the best recommendations for Indonesian research,” he added.

This petition includes support from a number of national figures, leading researchers, and scholars. They include Azyumardi Azra, Didin S Damanhuri, Sofian Effendi (Ex-Rector of UGM and Chairman of the ASN Commission), Franz Magnis Suseno.

Then Taufik Abdullah, Busyro Muqaddas (former Chairman of the KPK), Muhammad Said Didu, Dr Fadhil Hasan, and Dr Connie Bakrie.

So far, research and development agencies from 33 institutions/ministries have merged BRIN. The merger is a process of integrating 39 government research institutions into BRIN.

The first five institutions to join are the institutions stipulated in Presidential Regulation Number 78 of 2021, including BPPT and also LBM Eijkman.

(tfk/wis)

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