Internationalisation for Quality Improvement

An Indonesian Perspective

Indonesia has the largest higher education sector in South East Asia, and its higher education institutions are overwhelmingly private. The sector is often considered as low-quality and slow-moving. Internationalisation efforts in the country are rooted in the aim of improving the higher education quality of Indonesian universities. The paper discusses some of the government’s recent internationalisation initiatives, as well as examples of internationalisation in private universities. Reflecting on the national and institutional problems that inhibit internationalisation of higher education in Indonesia, several implications for practitioners both within Indonesia and beyond are outlined at the end of this paper.