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LIPI: Science and technology sector getting no where

Sen, 10 Oktober 2011 | 08:31 WIB

Jakarta, NU Online
The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) says the creation, development and utilization of science and technology in Indonesia is not making progress.

“Our research shows that interaction between the researchers, the government and businesspeople is lacking,” LIPI Science and Technology Center development research chief Husein Avicenna said Monday as quoted by kompas.com.

Husein added that the development of industrial manufacturing in Indonesia was largely dominated by products with low technological content that did not require a lot of research to create.

LIPI chairman Lukman Hakim said the country’s main problem was a lack of interaction between actors involved in the science and technology system with the national production sector.

“As a result, national production has becomes less developed and more dependent on imported materials and technology,” he said. (dar)