Boosting multi-language proficiency for educators

Language proficiency is seen as what makes or breaks Indonesian lecturers in the global education and research industry.

Even though Indonesia has made achievements in terms of English writing skills in Southeast Asia, the country still faces problems when it comes to producing scientific papers of international standard.

So far, 5,421 scientific papers from Indonesia have been published in international journals in 2015, according to directorate general of research and development reinforcement, Muhammad Dimyati.

“This exceeds our target of 5,008 published papers,” he said.

This achievement ranks Indonesia fourth in Southeast Asia in terms of number of scientific papers published abroad, with the writing of those papers being dominated by educators and post-graduate students from higher education institutions.

Nevertheless, there is still one nagging problem that prevents more Indonesian academia from producing scientific papers of international standard. - See more