Jakarta, March 18 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology is encouraging close synergy of academicians, industries, and the government in accelerating the downstreaming of research results that have an impact on the community.

"The ministry is carrying out the Asta Cita missions through transformative higher education that is oriented towards the improvement of access, quality, relevance, and impact on sustainable national development," the ministry's Director General of Higher Education Khairul Munadi noted in a statement here on Tuesday.

Munadi explained that strengthening human resources and research is the key to innovation-based economic development, as mandated in the Asta Cita missions as national pri...