also has a large number of higher education (HE) institutions, 4,274 in total, serving a
student population of 6,873,135 (PDDIKTI, 2015). The large numbers attest to the massive
demand and consequently the growth of Indonesia's HE since its independence from the
Netherlands, when there were only 3,242 students enrolled in a handful of colonially
administered institutions between 1920 and 1940 (Somadikarta et al., 1999). Despite the …