Evaluation of Risbang Strengthening Program 2015-2019 for Development of Renstra Strengthening Structure 2020-2024

Abstract

In accordance with the mandate of the Presidential Regulation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 13 the Year 2015, the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education has the task of holding government affairs in the fields of research, technology, and higher education to assist the President in organizing state government. To be able to carry out its duties and functions, the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education establishes the organization’s vision, mission, goals and strategic objectives. In order to carry out the assigned tasks and functions, the Directorate General of Research and Development Strengthening has established a vision, mission and strategic plan. In the 2015-2019 period, the Directorate General of Research and Development Strengthening was established as a Research and Development Strengthening program. To measure the performance achievements in the scope of the Directorate General of Research and Development Strengthening, several strategic objectives have been set out that describe the conditions that must be achieved in 2019 which is one year left. In preparing the new strategic plan, it is necessary first to evaluate the previous program. The result Analysis based on the performance of Universities obtained a sequence of focus areas with high indexed publications are Social Humanities, Cultural Arts & Education; followed by ICT; Health and Medicine Technology. While the least is Defense and Security. Thus, if the focus area will be prioritized, then all grant schemes under the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education can be directed to the focus areas whose publications are indexed on many Scopus. In general, respondents who were very satisfied/satisfied with the performance of the Directorate General of Research and Development Strengthening were Regional R&D, KL R&D, and LPNK while the respondents who are less/dissatisfied are the public and foreign researchers.