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Developmental Scientist

Does scientist has a role in nation development? This question keep haunting me recently. For example, when the nation has a food crises, should the scientist from indirect field involved in that issues or they have nothing to do with that and run business as usual? Does scientist have to aware about national issues, such as oil crisis effected Indonesia’s APBN, energy crises, poverty, famine? How about their role in academic itself?

To be honest, I don’t have any answer of those questions above, although there are some possible ways to make it work. The intermediaries agency. They can make a bridge from national and market necessity with scientist daily activities. Unfortunately, there are another although :( In my experience, the intermediaries agency keep on failing. Maybe we have lack of trust issues also that need to be solved.

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