Arranged by Luke Pramudita
Introduction
Discuss the imbalanced condition between developed countries and developing countries we may ask why developing countries rarely grow as the developed countries. The answer of this question sometimes related with the minimum quality of human resources had by every countries. To overcome this phenomenon there is trends in developing countries to send out the potential peoples to get studied for a several times than send back to the home countries to implicating the knowledge.
In the real situation the process to sending and returning the potential peoples doesn’t work successfully because of several error factors (inside or outside). The peoples mostly work in host countries and don’t want to go back to the home countries. These phenomena called with Brain Drain. The brain drain actually not only happened for students who studied abroad but also skilled and competent peoples (engineer, doctor, lecturer, scientist, technician, etc). Because of these phenomena states not only lose skilled people who can give education infestation for the state’s citizen but also the fund that given to them to get study abroad.
Discussion: How should we look brain drain?
Actually we can’t make a judgment that brain drain is controversial and states shouldn’t send people to study abroad because of many negative factors behind it. In the contrary we also can’t say that states should legalized the brain drainer to work abroad and don’t go back to the home states. They are national asset and states should keep them working for the home states.
Looking at this domino effect, how should we look brain drain phenomena? Before answer this question let me pointing out the discussion between contra and pro related with brain drain.
1.We are Contra with Brain Drain!
Mostly as what I’ve tell before, brain drain always looked as the contra action in international migration. The contra group pointed out 5 reasons why they contra with brain drain:
1.Brain drainer become brain strainer who don’t have high nationalism because don’t want to go back to the home country
2.The states condition can be worse because the states loose the skilled and competent people who can handle any problems in home states. These may cause the mismanagement, conflict, and poor working conditions for the home countries.
3.There are fiscal costs for the home country and also the tax revenue that should pay for the home countries.
4.There will be flip situation where host states (which is more develop than home states) always support with skilled people who are emigrant than in home states government should conducive skilled people from host states (with a lot of salary of course) to work in home countries.
5.The differentiation (based on national prosperity) between home countries (mostly represented by developing countries) and host countries (represented by developed countries) sharply visible. There is no contribution for the home countries but a lot of contribution for the host countries.
2.It doesn’t matter with Brain Drain!
Differently the pro group has the different idea about brain drain. They pointed out several points:
1.Not all of brain drainers are going to be brain strainers. There are a lot of brain drainers who also become brain gainers who back to the home countries and give many contribution for the home countries
2.The purpose from brain drainers to go abroad is to look for better life. It is not the best answer to reduce the brain drain because human have the opportunity to migrate to look the better life.
3.Home governments doesn’t gives any reward for the brain gainers
4.Live in home countries after reach high studies don’t give any jobs because they can’t apply the skill that they had abroad.
5.Little salary for the brain gainer if they work in home countries.
Conclusion: It’s ok to have Brain Drain.
From the discussion above, I can made a conclusion that brain drain basically good for the home countries but it also a hard work for the governments to interest the brain drainer to go to home countries to give contribution. A reward needed for the brain gainers who have a good plan to go back and give contribution for the home country. Government should give good facilities for the skilled person to place and make them functional in the right place to work. Whenever stop the brain drain is not a solution because we still need the role of developed countries, but to ensure the brain drainer to go to the home states also be the national agenda
