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Professor Prabowo

In 1981 we started with a regular computer course; we became a university in 1986 with around 10,000 students. The largest intake is for the business and computing faculty, the second is to engineering, the third is design and lastly is humanities. The strong focus remains on the use of technology within all academic subjects and a high level of service to be a leading university in the country and the region. It is our vision that 1 in 3 graduates will work in a multinational company and a broader aim that 20% of all students will have international experience. We approach this through several training programs for international certifications; the second is to send students abroad for international experience to China, United States etc.

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Professor Prabowo

In 2000, we were focused on strengthening the internal process, we moved from using just ICT to certifications such as ISO. Since 2000 until now we have grown through collaboration with international partners, we also have strong connections through the BINUS Training Centre with industry, such as with Microsoft.

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Professor Prabowo

There are three important aspects, how to allocate and manage resources, curriculum management and the process management. In the last 10 years we have concentrated on the content and the process. Searching for the potential talent in Indonesia is not that easy, this has been a focus since 2007. To get good talent, we grow our internal capacity by sending people to study abroad and by looking for talent outside of the institution.

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Professor Prabowo

We see that China has its strength in the economics and business sector, many of our students study Mandarin in China after they graduate. The Chinese government is also very aggressive in establishing partnerships with international universities. We started sending students that wanted to learn Mandarin to China, but now it is for students from all subjects. We are soon going to start a Mandarin training program for this.

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Professor Prabowo

Our international programs are closely related with British, Australian and American institutions but we are aiming with our regular program to link more with Chinese universities. The Chinese universities are easier to form partnerships with as we share a social and cultural background being from Asia.

We realise in terms of research that our gap with European and American institutions is substantial, we try to fill that gap by building up internal capacity but this can be a challenge in establishing partnerships. There is a capability gap but also the cost of exchange programs for students to study abroad makes such exchanges out of reach. The way that we see cooperation working with these universities is through welcoming their visiting faculty members to build collaboration, also for our lecturers to study their PhDs there and create a network with the university.