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A report has been issued that <strong>in</strong>cludes a summary of recommendations
as well as presentations made at the workshop.
7. WORKSHOP ON PLANNING, MONITORING, AND EVALUATION
OF RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY IN INDONESIA
Background
In early 1983, two senior <strong>Indonesia</strong>n officials expressed <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong>
meet<strong>in</strong>g with appropriate U.S. officials <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> research and technology
plann<strong>in</strong>g dur<strong>in</strong>g their May 1983 visit to the United States. It
was thus decided that BOSTID would arrange a brief ad hoc sem<strong>in</strong>ar for
<strong>in</strong>vited U.S. experts and the <strong>Indonesia</strong>n visitors to focus on how science
and technology is planned and coord<strong>in</strong>ated <strong>in</strong> the United States at the
national level, with<strong>in</strong> specific government agencies, at profit-mak<strong>in</strong>g
and nonprofit research advisory <strong>in</strong>stitutions, with<strong>in</strong> university R&D
<strong>in</strong>stitutes, and <strong>in</strong> private <strong>in</strong>dustry.
Follow<strong>in</strong>g that sem<strong>in</strong>ar and as a next step, BOSTID was asked to
cosponsor a workshop <strong>in</strong> Jakarta on plann<strong>in</strong>g, implementation, and evaluation
of research and technology ma<strong>in</strong>ly at the national level. Specifically,
the workshop was <strong>in</strong>tended to exam<strong>in</strong>e methodologies for deriv<strong>in</strong>g
a research and technology plan from the relevant portions of the fourth
S-year development plan (REPELITA IV) and to discuss how different
methods of plann<strong>in</strong>g, implementation, monitor<strong>in</strong>g, and evaluation can be
used as a basis for the next year's plann<strong>in</strong>g.
Activity Summary
The workshop was held <strong>in</strong> Jakarta, August 23-26, 1983, follow<strong>in</strong>g a day
of site visits by the NRC panelists to Bandung, the M<strong>in</strong>istry of Agriculture,
and appropriate offices <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Indonesia</strong>n Institute of Sciences.
In his open<strong>in</strong>g remarks, the <strong>Indonesia</strong>n chairman highlighted the government's
need to ref<strong>in</strong>e the basic criteria for plann<strong>in</strong>g, monitor<strong>in</strong>g, and
assess<strong>in</strong>g all research and technology activities. Other <strong>Indonesia</strong>n
participants discussed the R&D organization <strong>in</strong> the government sector <strong>in</strong>
<strong>Indonesia</strong>; the M<strong>in</strong>istry of Health and the Agency for Agricultural
Research and Development were described <strong>in</strong> detail. After the response
of the NRC chairman, a series of papers were presented by the U.S. participants
describ<strong>in</strong>g research and technology <strong>in</strong> the U.S. government,
specifically <strong>in</strong> the National Science Foundation and the Department of
Agriculture. A presentation was also given on how a method of detailed
project plann<strong>in</strong>g used by U.s. <strong>in</strong>dustry might be applied <strong>in</strong> <strong>Indonesia</strong>.
All workshop participants then focused on three specific topics
relat<strong>in</strong>g to research and technology: (1) plann<strong>in</strong>g, (2) implementation,
and (3) evaluation.
On the third day, brief work<strong>in</strong>g group sessions were held to draft
conclusions reached <strong>in</strong> the three areas, and they were presented the
follow<strong>in</strong>g day to all workshop participants for comments.
A report of the workshop summariz<strong>in</strong>g the conclusions and <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g
the presentations was issued by the National Research Council.