Journal of Higher Education Research

Under the influence of globalization, in order to promote the national economic development and meet the increasing demand for higher education from the domestic social development, the Indonesian government's reform of higher education has never been interrupted since independence. There was a time, though, when the economic crisis was temporarily interrupted by domestic political instability. After independence, the Indonesian government launched a series of higher education reform programs, such as the long-term planning and development of several higher education, and has promulgated related higher education regulations. Under the guidance of these policies and regulations, Indonesia's higher education has undergone a dramatic change: it has expanded rapidly, especially in private institutions, at a much faster rate than in public institutions. The Indonesian government has introduced a new higher education management system that includes quality, autonomy, accountability and evaluation in order to improve the internal management inefficiency, lack of motivation for scientific research, and lack of public accountability. At present, after the continuous reform of Indonesian Higher Education, Indonesian higher education has formed its own development characteristics, such as internationalization, privatization, massification. But there are also some problems and challenges.