Abstract:
The qualities of human resources in Indonesia have not been appropriate with the national
hope, and tend to decline, and it is far away from the international human resources quality.
Internationally, the rank of Indonesia Competitiveness is decreasing. Among 60 countries in
the world, Indonesia is at the 59nd position in 2005. 83.27% of Indonesia university graduates
were working as unskills labour. The quality of Indonesian human resources are significantly
determined the economic development, law, politics, and social of this country. The qualified
human resources will succeed in the world competitions, whereas for those who are not
qualified will lose in the competition. The competition in the globalization era is the
competition of human resources quality that is provided by education institutes. Therefore, the
efforts to improve the undergraduates’ education quality become the programs which have to
be supported by all parties, including the educational implementers in central, districts,
schools, and community in Indonesia. This paper is aim to discuss for the urgency of
instructional reform in Indonesia Undergraduate Education systems. It was based on the
thesis that changing curriculum is not adequate. We must change what teacher’s does in the
classroom. There will be no educational reform until we have instructional reform, i.e.
changes in what teacher does in the classroom to create an environment where learning takes
place. We explore An Integrated Holistic Model’s of Student-centered Learning Paradigm by
integrating the Soft Skills Attributes for undergraduate education reform should take into
account towards a world class universty graduates. Finally, the transformational academic
leardership of lecturer is a crucial element in term of quality improvement in teaching and
learning in higher education system.
