Developing Engineering

Accreditation System in
Indonesia
Leni Sophia Heliani
Indonesia Accreditation Board for Engineering Education
Dept. Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada
Indonesian Undergraduate Engineering Programs
& student 260 million people
17.504 islands
1.905 million km²
5% go to IABEE international Accreditation
~2.7 million enrolment/year
Engineering
Engineering
1,024,321
5,106
4k
Programs

Health & Med

Education
Economic
Sociology
2k

0k
(Gozan, 2020)
 PII preparared IABEE 2013,
and established it 2015
The accreditation of study • Government:
program should be carried out
by the autonomous • Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher
accreditation body formed by Education à Ministry of Education
the society …….
• JABEE & JICA
(Law number 12/2012, Ch. 55, verse 6, on
Higher Education) • Academics:
• Program Associations
as an permanent body • Higher Education Institution Associations
inside The Institution of • Professionals:
Engineers Indonesia • Chapters in PII
(PII) • Leading Engineering and HE Societies
• ABET and Other WA members
(Modified Gozan, 2020)
 Engineering Accreditation and IABEE
journey so far…

1994 -2003 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2018-19 2020-beyond

National Accr. Establishment Development #1 Development #2 Start accreditation Accredit & recognize Further recognition
ü Steering ü Steering ü Evaluation & ü Online Evaluation ü O’seas and IABEE ü IABEE Inauguration ü Run Accreditation
Committee Committee Accreditation System Evaluator Training ü IABEE Evaluator Tr. cycles
ü 1st undergrad ü Criteria Committee ü Discipline Criteria ü Pilot Accreditation
ü General Accred. (28P) ü Submit proposal for
accreditation Committee ü Dev’t of RPEA ü O’seas Evaluator Evaluation WA signatory status
ü Provisional Accred. (18P)
ü 1st postgrad ü Dev’t of ü O’seas Evaluator Training ü General Accr. (5P) ü Receive WA
accreditation Common Criteria Training ü Submit proposal for WA verification team
ü Establishment withinü Provisional
for engineering provisional status (2021)
ü Program to int. ü Awareness PII Accreditation (6P)
accreditation programs ü Awareness Sem.
Seminars ü Awareness Sem. ü Awareness Sem.

(Modified Gozan, 2020) 4

 Engineering Program Accreditation

BAN PT IABEE

• Compulsory
• Output-Outcome -based
evaluation (2017)
• One size fits all criteria
• Ranking system
• National level
• Voluntary
• Outcome-based
• Field specific criteria
• Continual improvement
• No ranking
• International level
5
 The Accreditation Criteria: Common & Discipline
Criteria
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INE Faculty, and/or Curriculum
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Computer, mental ing ,

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Common & Discipline Criterias are available online from https://iabee.or.id/en/accrediation/accreditation-

criteria/common-criteria/ and https://iabee.or.id/en/accrediation/accreditation-criteria/discipline-criteria/ 6
Some important numbers
1795 854 233

C B A
Number of programs accredited by Programs eligible for
mandatory National Accreditation IABEE General
System in 2019 (ranked A, B, and C) Accreditation (rank A)

IABEE Accreditation cycle 2020 117

120 Number of
50
100 trained
Program 86
40
80 Evaluators
30 60
45
20 40 30
Number of programs 15
applying for IABEE 10 20
Accreditations since 0
0
2016 (first cycle) 2016 2017 2018-1 2018-2 2019 2020 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
GA PA
7
(Modified Gozan, 2020)
Importance of IABEE Accreditation
qFor students and graduates
Gain education basics that meet global standards, in line with
science and technology development, support career and
professional success, and wider employment opportunities
qFor programs and education institutions
• By voluntary nature, programs demonstrate a commitment to
provide quality education and global recognition, increasing
competitiveness, Recognition and cost saving
qFor industry, government and stakeholders
Opportunity to provide feedback on current and future
employment needs , facilitate professional mobility, systematics
involvement on CQI of HE 8
Impact: Implementation of OBE
In Indonesian HE

Study Program concern with constructive alignment, achievement of Learning

outcome and continuous quality improvements
(Geodetic-Geomatics Engineering, UGM, 2021)
 Indonesian Outcome based Accreditation and SDGs

IABEE as outcome IABEE Learning Outcome: Involvement of Professional Policy and standard
based accreditation solved complex engineer on the in Indonesia HE
focus on continues engineering problem with accreditation processes
qualityimprovement
constraints, Responsible and CQI, systematics
of the programs and
HE Institution to society and cooperation between
professional ethic, life- professional and Program.
long learning
 Terima kasih
Thank You Very much