Readiness of Indonesian Higher Education Programs in the Big Data Era

摘要

Today the world has entered the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, marked with the Internet of Thing (IoT) which generates the big data. In this big data era, there is a massive amount of digital data scattered, so it requires the presence of data scientists who can process these data into valuable information. Based on the digital competitiveness ranking released by the IMD World Competitiveness Center in 2018, Indonesia's ranking reached only in the 62nd place, far below Singapore (2), Malaysia (27), Thailand (39) and Philippines (56). Higher education as one of the organizers of the educational process that supplies ready-to-work experts, has great potential to take a maximum role to catch up with today's digital competitiveness. This paper discusses the readiness of higher education programs in Indonesia in response to the 4.0 industrial revolution era. We use web scrapping method to obtain data from Higher Education Data Base (Forlap Dikti) webpage from Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. This paper is expected to be able to provide an overview of stakeholders to be better prepared to undergo the 4.0 Industrial Revolution in Indonesia.