Indonesia Lacks Young Scientists Specializing in Marine Life
22 July 2017 10:58 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Ambon - A researcher at PPLD-LIPI is struggling to find young Indonesian scientists who possess excellent track records in the field of the deep sea.
"Despite great potentials that Indonesia has, there are very few researchers who carried out the study on deep sea due to limited equipment," the Indonesian Institute of Science’s Deep Sea Research Center (PPLD-LIPI) researcher Yosmina Tapilatu said in Ambon on Friday, July 21.
Yosmina Tapilatu is one of leading researchers in PPLD-LIPI. She was in charge as a curator in the session "Exploring the Oceans: Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea" in Indonesian-American Kavli Frontiers of Science (KFoS) Symposium.
In addition, limited funding is another cause of the lack of research on the deep sea in Indonesia. This is strikingly different from American scientists as shown in KfoS Symposium. In the seminar held on 17 - 21 July, most American scientists attending the event are less than 45 years old, possess a doctoral degree and actively conduct studies.
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