| dc.description.abstract | Internationalization of higher education is inevitable amidst the increasingly
globalized world. Incentivized by varying factors – ranging from global
competitiveness, world university rankings, and government's policy, higher
education institutions are pushed towards internationalization. One leading
institution conducting this strategy is Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), the
country’s oldest national university. This thesis aims to examine the higher
education internationalization in Indonesia, drawing from UII as a case study in
2018-2023. Through literature review and interviews with the university officers,
this paper utilizes two frameworks to bring a robust analysis on internationalization:
knowledge diplomacy framework and cross-border relations in higher education
concept. This research seeks to analyze UII’s rationales, actors, values, approaches
and instruments in internationalization, and subsequently identify the university’s
definition of cross-border activities. This study finds UII’s elements of
internationalization generally comply with knowledge diplomacy framework, with
several exceptions. Particularly, UII’s main internationalization motives are its
institutional history of mondial identity and vision as a globally recognized
university. Knowledge diplomacy, comparatively, considers the strengthening of
intercountry relationships as its main goal, while internationalization fairly
perceives it as a by-product. Moreover, the analysis identifies UII’s cross-border
activities as equivalent-mutual internationalization and partly interdependent
globalization, with less multi-polar traits and no decolonial attributes. | en_US |
