MANPOWER PLAN FOR ACADEMIC AND SUPPORTING STAFF
A. Manpower plan for Academic Staff
The academic staff members of FSP are competent and qualified in their field of expertise. Currently, the academic staff of the FSP is consisted of full time and part time staff. There are 52 academic staff in total that are deployed in 5 (sub) fields such as forest management, silviculture, forest conservation, forest product technology, and socio-economics of forestry. 26.9% of the academic staff is professors and 21.2% is associate professors. From the total academic staff, 64.5% of the cohort has obtained PhD. The specific fields of expertise and category of the FSP academic staff can be shown in the matrix below.
The matrix of age distribution, academic staff distribution based on the field of expertise (D: number of academic staff without part time lecturer; D+: number of all academic staff)
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Forest Management |
Silviculture |
Forest Conservation |
Forest Product Technology |
Social Economics of Forestry |
Total |
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|
D |
D+ |
D |
D+ |
D |
D+ |
D |
D+ |
D |
D+ |
D |
D+ |
|
|
Age distribution |
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> 61 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
9 |
|
50 – 60 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
12 |
12 |
|
39 – 49 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
20 |
20 |
|
29 – 38 |
2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
11 |
|
Category |
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|
Professor |
3 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
13 |
14 |
|
Associate Professor |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
10 |
|
Assistant Professor |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
15 |
15 |
|
Teaching Assistant |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
7 |
|
Part time lecturer |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
|
Total |
9 |
11 |
9 |
11 |
6 |
8 |
12 |
12 |
9 |
10 |
46 |
52 |
Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Eduction (MORTHE) has a specific retirement period policy regulating all academic staff of state universities. It is stated that the academic staffs have an educational task time limit of up to 65 years old for non-professors and 70 years old for professors. The data show that the age distribution of the academic staff of the FSP is not evenly distributed with more than 40% of the staff at the ages closed to the retirement period. This is a challenge faced by the study program. Moreover, the national quota for lecturer recruitment is not available since 2015. Therefore, the FSP under Unhas policy has recruited part time lecturers (non-civil servant) to fill the gap. In the future, full time academic staff is needed. To make a normal distribution among the fields, there were two academic redeployed from Forest product technology to social economics of forestry due to the linearity of field being research after conducting doctoral degree. However, academic staff at the forest conservation field is the minimum among other fields, therefore this data input has shown the area being concerned in recruiting new academic staff in the future.
To overcome insufficient number of lecturer distributed per field, the FSP has recruited 6 part time lecturers from retiring academic staff and master degree graduates who have been recommended by each laboratory, as well as gradually plan to recruite 6 permanent lecturers until 2022. Previously, together with the Forestry Faculty, the study program was requested to conduct need analysis assessment for academic staff every year and sent the request to the HRD bureau at the University level. However, since the autonomy took place in 2015, the secretary of Unhas has created a system to track automatically the needs of academic staff per study program by counting the ratio between students and academic staff and established a database to monitor the staff requirement.
B. Manpower plan for Supporting Staff
In general, supporting staff of the FSP can complete all the tasks given based on their job descriptions. The competence of the supporting staff of the FSP can be considered sufficient based on the educational background of the staff, where the ratio is 1:14. The MORTHE standard for this ratio is 1:50. However, the study program is not a determinant of the acceptance or selection of required supporting staff. This also includes the promotion. The planning system for staff is regulated under the Rector’s Decree No. 18536/UN.4/KP.49/2014. The University is in charged in conducting all the process both selection, recruitment, and promotion based on Government Regulation No. 78/2013, and Law No. 5/2014 on State Civil Apparatus (ASN). In Hasanuddin University, regulations regarding the selection, recruitment, termination, procedures for both academic and support staff is based on the Rector of Hasanuddin University Regulation No. 92926/UN4.1/OT.10/2016.
FSP considered some challenges that supporting staff still need to increase the quantity and the quality of the staff, especially on supporting Internal Quality Assurance (IQA Unit) and technician on laboratory. Therefore, more trainings have been conducted. In addition, FSP continues to improve the management, so that the existing supporting staff can work optimally while continuing to ask for support from the university for additional supporting staff as well as proposing additional staff to the University management. One steps taken by the FSP to support the activities is by recruiting honorary staff to fulfill the normal distribution of supporting staff.