The idea of
studying abroad raises pros
and cons in conducting
research in our own country. Many argues that conducting researches in destination countries are better than conducting research in Indonesia, not
only to learn about their
cultures, experiences, and knowledge to be implemented in Indonesia, but also to promote those of ours
to them. Somehow it is
true, however, we should not forget for our negligent in
managing the knowledge. Have you ever heard the idiom ‘the knowledge and culture from other country may not be suitable for Indonesia? For example, the project like MRT was abandoned
for around 20 years from the first time the idea came up. Nonetheless, our neighboring countries, which implemented the
idea much later, have
enjoyed the benefit of MRT. Should we not be so naïve when we
look for journal information by only doing keyword web-search? Where does the information come from the most?
Yeah, you’re right, from the Europe – India – China where their development gives impact in our society. What is the
information about? Their country! What is the benefit for the researcher? Not much,
even in the case of no funding, they would spend a lot of money in order to
spread this free information to the world. What about when we try to look information
of our country? Yes, you can answer by yourself.
To
my knowledge, most researches in other countries are generously funded and the countries get the benefit from the make
use of the research results.
How about research funding in Indonesia? If not merely
financed then I have no
knowledge about it, so please tell me. Back to the argument of is it better to not conducting the research
in our country when we study abroad. I think the problem is not about giving
free information about our country to them, but how well we can manage the information to
give positive contribution to our country. We use the
knowledges and
experiences from other countries and try to make use of them to necessaryly solve our country problems. Is not it powerful tool to
participate in the
development of
our country? How about the free knowledges coming from the work of our student abroad?
Do we make use of them properly or are they just stored neatly dusty in the campus
library? I hope we are the useful asset of our country.
My point is
there so poor knowledge
management in Indonesia, which is why slow development for the country is unavoidable.
20 March 2015
Joan
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