Scholars have criticised how neo-liberalisation has affected universities globally, specifically highlighting how market-driven policies have transformed higher education institutions into corporations and students as commodities. Feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly neoliberalised universities as careless institutions where care practices, which can be located in the teaching-learning nexus, are too often marginalised. Our talk explores the micropolitics of care in Indonesian higher education and identifies 'caring practices' as subjugated knowledge despite its criticality in day-to-day teaching and learning. Indonesia provides a unique setting to enhance the notion of care and its micropolitics in a specific context to demonstrate how care is understood, negotiated, and institutionalised within a particular context. Our talk will explore three alternative constructions of care practices which may challenge the neoliberal careless doxa, namely: (1) lecturers as educators, (2) caring practices as resistance, and (3) possibilities of institutionalising care. Only by acknowledging care as a value, practice and conceptual lens in understanding gender inequalities in neoliberal academia can we re-imagine universities as having equalising effects rather than otherwise.