Academic Servant Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A reflection from Indonesia

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, since March 2020, every lecturer of my campus has been required to teach their students online. The teaching period, which ended in June 2020, was a respite of the sudden teaching-online situation. Being forced to lead and teach from a distance was tantamount to teaching-learning and leadership in a crisis. Leadership during a crisis, without being able to meet colleagues directly, is challenging due to the inevitable difficulties of indirect communications. Furthermore, teaching online in crisis lends itself to boredom and stress due to the ‘static’ nature of the teaching method.