JAKARTA - The Indonesian government through the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) encourages the establishment of research hub facilities for ASEAN researchers so that they can optimize the full potential for mobility for the advancement of Southeast Asia.
Head of the BRIN Social and Humanities Research Organization, Ahmad Najib Burhani, against the research hub, can strengthen the friendship between countries in Southeast Asia.
"We are becoming something called decentering or decolonizing Southeast Asia. So we are a new force of science in this world," he said in a statement quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, July 29.
Najib said the existence of the ASEAN research hub could be a competitor to western countries such as Europe, America, or Australia, which has been widely known as a beacon in the world's scientific fields.
According to him, ASEAN can become an industrial center, scientific, to the production of new knowledge, in the world through the research hub.
"This closeness makes Southeast Asia a new force in terms of science, economy, and so on," said Najib.
The population in Southeast Asia, which reaches 670 million people, provides a strategic position. Moreover, he said, it is supported by natural forces in the form of diverse biodiversity as capital for ASEAN to jointly develop and research these potentials.
Najib conveyed that research cooperation between Southeast Asian countries could be in the form of various fields, such as biodiversity, climate change, and the environment that is the issue of the future.
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