MidLand, Jakarta – Ministry of Religion o Ministry of Religion found that as many as 959 professors were confirmed from the end of 2021 to December 2023. Of these there were a total of 461 Professor religious knowledge cluster and another 498 from the general knowledge cluster.
The director general of Islamic education at the Ministry of Religion, Muhammad Ali Ramdhani or Dhani, is grateful that this figure was achieved in just two years. Based on previous data, only 75 professors are appointed each year.
“This is a proud achievement in the history of the Ministry of Religion. “It was a good team effort from all components, the Ministry of Religion-Kemdikbudristek, the religious universities and the teachers,” Dhani said in Jakarta, quoted by the Ministry of Religion website on Saturday, December 16, 2023.
Dhani also explained why the number of general science professors appointed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) is higher. This is because the credit score evaluation process for the religious studies group is more rigorous. One of them concerns demand Ranking of the Scimago diary and must pass a religious moderation test.
According to Dhani, the emergence of professors is very important because it will encourage many factors in the development of higher education. “The presence of professors is very important for the development of higher education under the Ministry of Religion, because it will support the internationalization of higher education institutions, accreditation, net and develop professional and forward-thinking human resources,” he said.
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Dhani hopes that teachers confirmed as professors will continue to work, improving their scientific and moral quality and integrity. “Every word a professor says is knowledge, and his behavior is exemplary,” said the professor at Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University, Bandung.
Two rules that become a model
The goal of almost a thousand teachers was reached after the ratification of two regulations governing the evaluation of teachers’ functional roles. The first regulation is the Regulation of the Minister of Religion or PMA Number 7 of 2021 regarding the evaluation of functional positions for teachers at the level of Chief Lector and Professor in the Religious Studies cluster. Through article 12 of this regulation, the Minister determines the credits for the academic positions of teachers, both at the level of associate professor and professor. The credit score is determined based on the results of an evaluation by a special evaluation group.
Meanwhile, the second rule is the Decree of the Minister of Religion number 856 of 2021 regarding the operational guidelines for the evaluation and determination of credit scores for the functional positions of teachers at the primary and professor levels in the religious sciences cluster .
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