Science and Technology Achievements as Crucial Factors to Become Developed

Science and technology achievements in all fields and sectors of the country are very important to become a developed nation. Lesson learned and best practices from developed countries show all of these and no one can deny it. Achieving advancement in science and technology will also need research and development in the relevant field as a partner. This can't be neglected and should be done in a proper strategy as it has been done for instance by Japan after world war 2. After world war 2 Japan send their students to study abroad learning about science and technology from other countries and after that they came back to the country and developing new products that currently occupying almost most part of the world. One of the competitive advantage of Japan products that it has a mini aspect although it is not long lasting products. But it has another comparative advantage compared to other developed countries products, i.e. those products become cheaper and need immediate replacement which meant that new demand to the products would have risen. So, what types of science and technology needed to achieve and what type of products should be produced by Indonesia in order to get access and gain competitive advantage in the world market? This is a challenge to the country scientists and technological experts to find it as if we follow what has been done by Japan it would have been out of date and might not relevant to the current situation. In short term the types of science and technology that need to be developed in the country is the technology  that can replace as many as imported products from another countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea. In addition this way can save much of foreign currency instruments while reducing the dependency to foreign countries products. In mid term and long term the country need to produce the products that currently still being bought from abroad. Indonesia should be able to produce the products that are classified as a high technology products although it may not as high as what currently produced by the USA.