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News Talks podcast: Is Indonesia next higher education hot spot?
We discuss internationalisation efforts at Indonesian universities and whether the archipelago’s institutions will achieve global recognition on a par with its East Asian neighbours
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Over the past 20 years, Asia has cemented its universities among the top in Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings. Indonesia, however, remains somewhat overlooked.
But with President Prabowo Subianto, who assumed office in 2024, celebrating the country’s strongest first-half economic growth in more than a decade, there’s clear national ambition to spur the higher education sector onto greater things.
On this week’s episode of News Talks, reporter Georgia Luckhurst talks to Asia-Pacific editor John Ross about what role Indonesia’s universities may play in the government’s ambitious plans. They discuss what Indonesian universities can offer the world, and how they are trying to assert their place on the global stage.
