Menengok Barat, Mengembangkan Tradisi Ilmiah di Indonesia

The tradition of academic research and scientific writings has long developed mainly in the West but today also in Southeast Asia. One of the crucial points taken from scientific tradition in the West is condusive intellectual attitudes. Only by these can science and research develop in a satisfactory manner. The main concern of an academic, scientific research has been filling the gap, which may include revision of old theories based on similar sources, revision of old theories based on new sources, finding new theories by correcting or fining the weaknesses and shortcomings of old theories, or finding new theories based on new sources