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@Indos - What you are saying is that it looks like as Indonesia develops to a high enough level, then maids will simply not be attracted enough to go overseas as salaries in Indonesia by then will not be much lower anyway and they get to stay in their home countries with their families.
As regards the cut in funding for R&D, that is a massive mistake as the money invested now will pay massive dividends down the line.
I do not know whether Jokowi's lack of interest may be due to his education but I think the best kind of leader is one that is educated in a technical field.
He comes from poor family so it tells a lot on his over emphasis on economy, infrastructure and village development. Later, when his administration has more money due to our revenue increase, he use much of the money for unemployment benefit. While spending on research keep stagnant.
I dont have any problem about his ambition on infrastructure and village development if he spend enough on research since research budget is relatively very small compared to other program. Research should be looked as investment and it is there for long term goal. Any one who doesnt have long term vision and doesnt believe with its own people brain will create such bad policy.
Indonesian people is clever as well, my older brother IQ for instant is 145 and got MENSA membership. Once he graduates from STEM faculty in University of Indonesia (second best STEM college after Bandung Institute of Technology), he then prefers to work with MNC like Nokia, Erricson, SIEMENS and has worked in many Western countries like USA/Spain and others. While one of my cousins who are graduated in similar electronics degree but coming from fifth tier (much lower rank) state university become government researcher and has been handling in most sophisticated research like Artificial Intelligent.
Look how our brain potency is wasted and not being optimized because our researcher since Soeharto regime are not paid well. Our education system spend huge money for state university and its best graduates will work for foreign companies. This simple logic is still not being understood. Even Ministry of Finance civil servant get better salary then our researcher despite working in administrative job.
So if any one see Indonesian cannot make defense product like China, Turkey, and Iran it is not because of we are less clever than them.
IMO It is better for our government to follow China that spend good amount of money on research and you can see its economy now can produce complex and advance product. Asian Development Bank has also made a long report in 2019 about the importance of Indonesia economy to make a complex and advance product in order to reach higher growth and developed country status.
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