As response to the increased pace of scholarly life caused by commodification and neoliberalisation of higher education, the term 'slow scholarship' has become prominent in Global North academia. My talk examines this concept against the Global South context by asking the question how do Indonesian early-career women academics experience time? We conduct in-depth interviews and identify the elements that are stacked against early-career women academics in Indonesia that hinder their career progression and made it impossible for them to slow down: the cultural and societal expectations to balance work and family, neoliberalisation of higher education, high teaching load, administrivia, and care work at the office. The talk argues that while these pressures function as a temporal disciplining structure which distort their sense of time and blur boundaries between private and personal time, women academics continue to cope and give meaning to their profession within these temporal structures.