Today is the day. 4.3 million residents in Scotland and aged 16 or over have the right to cast their ballot to answer a straight forward question with big implications: ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?.’ A simple majority is required by the Yes campaign to win the referendum and leave the United Kingdom after […]
I have written a blog published by the Overseas Development Institute: \”As #Indonesia votes counted @ArnaldoPellini asks what it means for provinces http://www.odi.org/comment/8562-indonesia-elections-decentralisation \’
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This is the the distribution of seats in the current Indonesian Parliament. A large coalition and a small opposition. How will this change following today legislative election?
The Indonesian Parliament 2009-2014 Read More »
Election day in Indonesia. 187 million Indonesian can vote today for 19.000 seats in local parliaments and 560 seats in the national parliament (or DPR). 22 million of the voters will vote for the first time. The election are particularly important because the also determine which party will be entitled to present a presidential candidate
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This morning, I was having my coffee and toast bread while skimming through the news. I found an interesting article that made me think about something I do every day here in Jakarta: to go to work by bicycle. The French Ministry for Transport has launched a plan to incentivize the use of bicycles to
Paying cyclists to commute to work. Possible in Jakarta? Read More »
Just published with my colleagues Endah Purnawati and Maesy Angelina a couple of Stories of Change on the use of knowledge and research evidence in policy decision-making. Pls follow the links. Working politically. A story of change on the contribution of research-evidence on the new Village Law in Indonesia On December 18th 2013, the Indonesian House
Last weekend, a couple of interesting articles in the Jakarta Globe have highlighted the worrying state of education in Indonesia. As an example, despite USD 33.6 billion allocated to education this year many teachers do not receive their salaries (). In the province of East Nusa Tenggara, one of the poorest, teachers and school staff
Typhoon Hayian was the 25th typhoon that hit the Philippines this year. I lived in the city of Dumaguete in the Philippines for four years and left last May. My family is still there and we were talking on Skype about the typhoon that was approaching the Filipino coast. Dumaguete lies just a couple of