In a current development, a Director of Education and Educational Force, Prof. Supriadi Rustad, in a workshop with all rectors of private universities in Central Java (Saturday, 24/3/13), indicates that DIKTI (Directorate General of Higher Education) plans to ‘force’ lecturers to pursue higher degrees (master and PhD) and suspend their NIDN (National Lecturer Identification Number) if they refuse. The director insists that DIKTI has provided around 1000 overseas scholarship for lecturers but the lecturers are too spoiled by their current double incomes (salary and professional/functional incentives) and lazy to move on.
