JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Stella Christie said that research lecturers who win research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology will receive financial incentives directly starting in 2026.
"Since this year for researchers, research lecturers who win research grants will receive direct financial incentives to their researchers," said Stella at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Thursday, January 15.
Stella said the policy was the result of the ministry's struggle to change the provisions that for the past few years did not allow the distribution of direct financial incentives to researchers.
He explained that the commitment to provide direct financial incentives to researchers had been promised since the beginning of his service as Wamendiktisaintek.
He made the promise in a presentation at the Bandung Institute of Technology on December 16, 2024, about two months after he was inaugurated.
"So two months after I worked, I promised I would fight for this and the promise was kept, December 2025 this promise was kept and from 2026 you will get direct financial incentives to research lecturers who win research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology," he said.
In addition to incentive policies, Stella also conveyed that the research fund of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology had experienced a significant increase.
Under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto, the ministry's research funding budget increased by 218 percent in one year.
"So there has been a lot of improvement in one year under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto," he said.
It is known that President Prabowo invited 1,200 professors, deans, and rectors of social humanities from various state universities and private universities throughout Indonesia to the middle courtyard of the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, Thursday morning.
A similar meeting, attended by a majority of professors in the field of STEM, was held by President Prabowo at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, on March 13, 2025.
Stella explained that today's meeting would be filled with the presentation of a briefing by President Prabowo in front of professors, deans, and rectors, then a dialogue session.
"We are of course very happy that the President wants to have a direct dialogue with us, the academics," said Stella.
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