Untuk 2008 dikembangkan bekerjasama dengan 23 perguruan tinggi di 20 provinsi. Program Sarjana Membangun Desa (SMD), salah satu program Ditjen Peternakan (Ditjennak) Deptan, bertujuan memberdayakan kelompok tani ternak dengan sarjana peternakan dan dokter hewan sebagai pendamping, yang ditempatkan di pedesaan.
Di 2008, program SMD dilanjutkan,” papar Bambang Trisetyo Eddy, salah satu pembina lapangan SMD dari Fapet Undip Semarang. Karena selama setahun (2007) kegiatan ini menunjukan kemajuan dan perkembangan. Untuk 2008 akan dikembangkan lebih lanjut dengan bekerjasama 23 perguruan tinggi di 20 provinsi.Program SMD dilatarbelakangi kenyataan lapangan ketidakmampuan produksi domestik dalam memenuhi kebutuhan daging, terutama daging sapi. Disampaikan Bambang, Ditjennak memandang ketidakmampuan produksi dalam negeri untuk memenuhi kebutuhan konsumsi disebabkan tiga hal.
Aspek teknologi, kelembagaan dan permodalan,” sebut Bambang yang Pembantu Dekan III Fapet Undip. Penempatan sarjana peternakan dan dokter hewan di pedesaan diharapkan dapat membantu permasalahan peternak, memberikan solusi atas 3 aspek tersebut, melalui penerapan hasil-hasil penelitian perguruan tinggi maupun lembaga penelitian lainnya.Diharapkan, akan didapat sistem usaha budidaya sapi potong yang lebih efisien. Selain itu juga mampu meningkatkan pemberdayaan kelembagaan peternak, sehingga dapat mengakses berbagai potensi sumberdaya peternakan, permodalan dan peluang pasar. Yang pada gilirannya menumbuhkan jiwa kewirausahaan, mendorong ekonomi pedesaan berbasis sapi potong. Sehingga sasaran meningkatnya produksi dan produktivitas sapi potong dapat terwujud.
Ada 6 komponen pelaku pelaksanaan program SMD meliputi ditjennak, perguruan tinggi, dinas peternakan provinsi, dinas peternakan kab/kota, SMD dan kelompok petani peternak. Sebagai pelaksana lapangan lebih banyak ditekankan pada sarjana atau dokter hewan dan kelompok petani peternak. Sementara yang lain berperan sebagai fasilitator dan pembinaan.Bagi sarjana atau dokter hewan yang berniat terjun dalam program ini, harus siap melaksanakan tugas minimal 3 tahun. Sementara kelompok petani peternak disyaratkan memiliki kelompok petani yang jelas, baik anggota, administrasi, perencanaan usaha serta kesiapan pengembangannya.
Sumber: http://www.trobos.com
05 Oktober 2008
University Admissions Scandal in Indonesia
David Jardine
Barely a day goes by in Indonesia without yet another corruption story filling the newspaper headlines. Usually these scandals involve businessmen, members of the judiciary or government officials. The higher education sector, however, is not untainted.
April is the month when university admission examinations are set. This year saw some 34,000 would-be students sitting the entrance test at the country's oldest university, Gajah Mada, in the Central Java city of Jogjakarta. Of these some 28% had paid large 'brokerage' fees to a cohort of middlemen who had promised them 'guaranteed' places at the institution, a survey by the university's student executive board found.
The middlemen received payments as high as 200 million rupiah (US$22,000) and are in cahoots with university administration officials. The scandal is repeated at a number of the country's leading institutions yet the Ministry of National Education seems to be completely lacking in the will to clean out these Augean Stables.
Perhaps most alarmingly, places can be bought in medical faculties and other premium subject areas include engineering and law. It is not uncommon in the big cities such as Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya to see 'crammer' institutions that run preparatory courses advertising 'guaranteed' entrance at leading universities.
Indonesia also faces the connected problem of highly-placed individuals sporting fake doctorates. Among them are allegedly the recent Vice-President, Hamzah Haz, as well as a number of members of the national House of Representatives. Fake doctorates from bogus North American universities are the vogue.
Meanwhile, the country faces a crisis of high-graduate unemployment and the climate of corruption encourages prospective students to chase places at the country's prestige institutions, which is where the brokers mostly operate, in the belief that degrees from them enhance their chances of finding a job.
Source: http://www.universityworldnews.com
Barely a day goes by in Indonesia without yet another corruption story filling the newspaper headlines. Usually these scandals involve businessmen, members of the judiciary or government officials. The higher education sector, however, is not untainted.
April is the month when university admission examinations are set. This year saw some 34,000 would-be students sitting the entrance test at the country's oldest university, Gajah Mada, in the Central Java city of Jogjakarta. Of these some 28% had paid large 'brokerage' fees to a cohort of middlemen who had promised them 'guaranteed' places at the institution, a survey by the university's student executive board found.
The middlemen received payments as high as 200 million rupiah (US$22,000) and are in cahoots with university administration officials. The scandal is repeated at a number of the country's leading institutions yet the Ministry of National Education seems to be completely lacking in the will to clean out these Augean Stables.
Perhaps most alarmingly, places can be bought in medical faculties and other premium subject areas include engineering and law. It is not uncommon in the big cities such as Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya to see 'crammer' institutions that run preparatory courses advertising 'guaranteed' entrance at leading universities.
Indonesia also faces the connected problem of highly-placed individuals sporting fake doctorates. Among them are allegedly the recent Vice-President, Hamzah Haz, as well as a number of members of the national House of Representatives. Fake doctorates from bogus North American universities are the vogue.
Meanwhile, the country faces a crisis of high-graduate unemployment and the climate of corruption encourages prospective students to chase places at the country's prestige institutions, which is where the brokers mostly operate, in the belief that degrees from them enhance their chances of finding a job.
Source: http://www.universityworldnews.com
Indonesia: High Graduate Unemployment
David Jardine
Leading universities in the world’s fourth most populous nation are making serious efforts to deal with high unemployment among their graduates. The situation facing Indonesia is typical of other developing countries.
The data and analysis centre of Tempo, the country’s leading current affairs weekly magazine, broke fresh ground last year with its Guide to Universities and Job-matching Programs of Study. Reflecting the widespread unease at the high annual rate of graduates either failing to find work or having to settle for apparently unsuitable positions, the Tempo centre set out to assess the ‘marketability’ of graduates from the nation’s top 10 universities.
The study covered state and private institutions and found that in Indonesia, “the higher one’s education the smaller the chance one will get a job”. Research by Jobs DB, an Indonesian employment information service, reported that 50% of graduates were trained in disciplines that did not match job openings.
This leads directly to the perception that universities are not paying attention to the needs of the market and changes in it. Some institutions, however, were found by the centre to be conducting market research and carrying out internal reforms. These included the number one-placed University of Indonesia (UI), which has a mandatory English-language element to its placement test, and the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, which networks with agricultural bodies.
Some institutions now have links with companies through apprenticeship schemes for undergraduates. The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has developed these through its engineering faculty.A number of leading institutions, among them UI and ITB, Gajah Madah University in Jogjakarta and the November 10 University in the East Java capital Surabaya, have joined an Asia-wide university consortium to improve practice. This has resulted in a number of them being placed in the Times Higher Education Supplement-QS World Top 500 rankings, with UI at 250, ITB at 258, Gajah Madah at 270 and Diponegoro University at 495.
One relevant item of assessment in the Times Higher table was the market absorption of graduates.Leading education reform campaigner, Professor Mochtar Buchorim, is one of those who believe the nation’s heavily bureaucratised education system is in need of a comprehensive overhaul. This would necessarily require replacement of the standardised multiple-choice national university entrance examination.
Sumber: http://www.universityworldnews.com
Leading universities in the world’s fourth most populous nation are making serious efforts to deal with high unemployment among their graduates. The situation facing Indonesia is typical of other developing countries.
The data and analysis centre of Tempo, the country’s leading current affairs weekly magazine, broke fresh ground last year with its Guide to Universities and Job-matching Programs of Study. Reflecting the widespread unease at the high annual rate of graduates either failing to find work or having to settle for apparently unsuitable positions, the Tempo centre set out to assess the ‘marketability’ of graduates from the nation’s top 10 universities.
The study covered state and private institutions and found that in Indonesia, “the higher one’s education the smaller the chance one will get a job”. Research by Jobs DB, an Indonesian employment information service, reported that 50% of graduates were trained in disciplines that did not match job openings.
This leads directly to the perception that universities are not paying attention to the needs of the market and changes in it. Some institutions, however, were found by the centre to be conducting market research and carrying out internal reforms. These included the number one-placed University of Indonesia (UI), which has a mandatory English-language element to its placement test, and the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, which networks with agricultural bodies.
Some institutions now have links with companies through apprenticeship schemes for undergraduates. The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has developed these through its engineering faculty.A number of leading institutions, among them UI and ITB, Gajah Madah University in Jogjakarta and the November 10 University in the East Java capital Surabaya, have joined an Asia-wide university consortium to improve practice. This has resulted in a number of them being placed in the Times Higher Education Supplement-QS World Top 500 rankings, with UI at 250, ITB at 258, Gajah Madah at 270 and Diponegoro University at 495.
One relevant item of assessment in the Times Higher table was the market absorption of graduates.Leading education reform campaigner, Professor Mochtar Buchorim, is one of those who believe the nation’s heavily bureaucratised education system is in need of a comprehensive overhaul. This would necessarily require replacement of the standardised multiple-choice national university entrance examination.
Sumber: http://www.universityworldnews.com
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