Linguistic Researches, how are you?

The question simply applies in Indonesian context where linguistics as the study of language seems not very well developed. Firstly, in terms of research, Indonesia has not paid serious attention to social researches or humanity researches.

It is hard to know why Indonesia at the moment only focuses on hands-on technology researches, such as agriculture, chemistry, information technology and many more researches on technology-basis. Social researches have somehow been put in second class. Many social researches have been conducted simply to show that there must be such researches, resulting in  piles of  research reports without any follow-up actions. It is true that linguistic researches do not seem directly to contribute to human worldly welfare. But, people may forget that nothing can be done without involving language use.
Secondly, direction to which linguistic researches in Indonesia is heading has not been well defined. At the moment linguists in Indonesia have been wandering here and there to see what paradigm(s) they are going to adopt after the presence of discourse analysis. Linguists of the old generation maintain that micro-linguistics still has a place, while the young linguists have been confused with the vast scope of discourse analysis. This has resulted in another pile of research reports on text analysis--working with established texts that we should let them be as they are.
I don't mean to degrade the value of their findings: rhetorical patterns, generic structure, meta linguistic patterns of field, tenor and mode. What I am trying to say is actually what we are going to do with those findings. It is important that linguists try to find ways of implementing their findings in language pedagogy.
It is still fresh in our mind that we have just lost in several international diplomatic missions of which losing East Timor is one. Are we gonna lose another and another. This is a clear indication of the weak part of linguistic study and implementation. We are lured with technology but again forget that nothing on earth can rotate without the appropriate use of language.
Wake up linguists! Your country needs you.