Plan for Submission of IPB Rector’ Responsibility Report for Period 2012-2017
Rector of IPB, Prof. Dr. Herry Suhardiyanto, submitted his Responsibility Report Plan of his term as Rector Period of 2012-2017 the Expanded Executives Meeting. The program was stated in the agenda of the Expanded Executives Meeting on Monday, 11 December 2017, at IPB International Convention Center (IICC), IPB Campus, Barangsiang, Bogor. The Plan of IPB Rector Responsibility Report 2012-2017 will be presented in the Open Plenary Session of the Board of Trustees of IPB Meeting, at the Inauguration of the New Rector of IPB, for the 2017-2022 Period on 15 December 2017.
Rector said the Five-Year Work Program of IPB period 2012-2017 was prepared and implemented in accordance with the Strategic Plan (Renstra) of IPB for period 2008-2013 and 2014-2018, which emphasized on 6 (six) main pillars of IPB development, namely: 1) Expansion of access and improving the quality of education and guidance of student affairs; 2) Improvement of research quality; 3) Development of the quality of community service; 4) Capacity building and networking; 5) Increasing the welfare of lecturers, education personnel, and students; 6) Strengthening the reliability of IPB management system.
Rector explained that the pillar of the access extension and improvement of education quality or the principle of quality education and education for all is the key for IPB to produce reliable and highly competitive agricultural human resources throughout the country. According to the registration’ records, this year out of the 4,007 (four thousand seven) undergraduate students admitted by IPB, they were from 328 (three hundred twenty eight) districts / cities in Indonesia, and nearly 24 (twenty four) percent of them are economically from less fortunate families.
"Especially to improve the quality management principles and long process of education, was started by improving the quality of new incoming students, curriculum consolidation, study program setting, the establishment of School of Business (SB) of IPB and Vocational School (SV) ofIPB, Pioneering the International Classes, providing well-equipped and up to date media and educational resources, as well as to improve the quality of graduate to be competitive in the international job markets," he said.
The Rector continued, improving the quality of research is an important effort to produce superior innovations that are useful for the community. In its efforts to produce wide range of recommendations for advancing convergence research, IPB research agendas have been formulated covering food, energy, ecology, poverty alleviation and biomedical. In addition to be indexed by Scopus database, 22 scientific journals published by IPB have been accredited nationally with A and B categories. With regard to the indexing side by Google Scholar, IPB has the most highly cited researchers UI, UGM, ITB, and LIPI. While based on SINTA indexation, which combines Scopus and Google Scholar, IPB is ranked 3rd. In the last decade, IPB was listed as a university with the highest number of most prospective innovations in the list of the Most Prospective Innovations Indonesia published by Business Innovation Center Indonesia in collaboration with Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti) RI. As many as 407 (four hundred seven) innovations or 38.95% of the 1045 most prospective Indonesian innovations were produced by IPB. In addition IPB received Widyapadhi award received from Kemenristekdikti in 2017, to appreciate Higher Education Institutions which carries out reliable and quality research programs and have made innovative products, have established innovation center facilities, training institute of trainer (ToT), incubation institution and cooperative works with industry.
Rector added that the role of IPB as prime mover in mainstreaming agriculture, one of which is realized through the presence of IPB in various programs and community service activities. Community service programs have been implemented through an agribusiness system and knowledge / technology transfer model to the community through counseling and coaching programs, especially for farmers, fishermen and ranchers. The program of community service were also implemented through various programs of KKN-Thematic (Thematic Field works), IPB Goes to Field (IGTF), Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC), Bina Cinta Lingkungan (BCL), Partnership with villages around IPB campus (Friday Tour – Jumling), Agro Creative Field Station (SLAK), Nusantara Agricultural Clinic (KPN), and Sekolah Peternakan Rakyat (SPR the Social's Cattle Farming School).
To ensure the inclusion of capacity-building and institution-strengthening, as appropriate, in all cooperation frameworks and partnerships and their integration for the future development of IPB. To improve its human resource capacity, IPB has provided funding support and educational scholarships and facilities for its faculty members and staff to attend various international activities, such as being a speaker at various international seminars / symposiums.
Lecturers are often the first point of contact for students, especially in the first term. But increased expectations on staff make it difficult to dedicate lots of time to students. To increase welfare of lecturers, education personnel and students by providing health insurance and non-financial compensation programs for lecturers and staff and scholarships and educational assistance for students. Implementation of the Sistem Imbal Jasa (SIJ reward system) was developed to be an integral part of the Integrated Management Information System (MIS). SIJ implementation has strengthened the concerns of the Heads of Working Units, lecturers, and educational staff about performance and remuneration so as to build a positive atmosphere for change towards the formation of a better reward system.
Furthermore, the strengthening and dynamics of the management system. These pillars include organizational dynamics and governance, resource management, and information and communication technologies. IPB also employ high commitment practices in providing public information services. In early 2014, IPB has built an integrated database where various information systems are gradually beginning to use these databases. Since 2016, the rank of IPB in webometric has increased to 4th in Indonesia, in terms of popularity of institutional web based on ranking by UniRank (4icu). IPB web performance is also increasing and in 2017 occupies the 3rd position of all universities in Indonesia. The position of the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in University Webometric Ranking in the World has increased 200 points by July 2017 when compared to the position in January 2017.
Rector asserted, IPB has proved to be an international leading university. This success has been acknowledged by Kemenristekdikti, which assesses universities in Indonesia on the Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry’s list of the country’s best universities. Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) was ranked fourth, after . as the best university ranked third nationally and ranked 61 QS World University Ranking By Subject Agriculture & Forestry in 2017.
Finally, Rector hopes that the achievements and lessons learned from the 2012-2017 work program, which were planned in accordance with the vision of the University will be utilized as the basis and important material of the new vision and strategic plan for the new Rector of IPB period 2017-2022. Sustainability and change are important principles to keep in order the targets to be achieved in the long-term plan of IPB 2019-2045 are realized, to encourage IPB to be techno-socio-entrepreneurial university. In the period of 2012-2017, IPB has undergone a transformation process towards international research-based university, and prime mover of agricultural mainstreaming in line with the vision of IPB 2018. This process has, among others, resulted in improved quality and expanding access to higher education, student achievement, scientific publication, prospective innovation, community empowerment, improving welfare, improving the welfare of resources, and strengthening institute management system.
This special meeting for the Submission of IPB Responsibility Report for 2012-2017 was attended by the executive boards all levels of IPB. (Wied)
