When it comes to sharing research, Indonesia is a world leader. Around the world, university scholars share their research thoughts and findings via scholarly journals. But sharing this information has been constrained by paywalls erected by commercial publishers. Even well-funded institutions — such as Harvard — struggle to afford the subscription costs to scientific journals.
Open access is a movement that arose in response. It strives to make scholarly content freely accessible to scholars and the public.
Indonesia has been ranked second in the global open access dashboard by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. However the reasons for such world-leading open access in Indonesia are not the same as for developed countries.
