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
Check out the 10 most popular blogs for 2013 published by Research to Action. Visit this page: http://www.researchtoaction.org/2013/12/top-10-posts-from-2013/
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In this opinion piece published by Research to Action I describe the process of conducting a political economy study commissioned by the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) and conducted in October – November 2012. My aim is to describe how the research process unfolded and why. The audience I have in mind are programme advisors, programme and project
I have written this blog which takes a look at the way evidence is informing social welfare policy in Indonesia, arguing that Indonesia requires an (endogenous) big push to strengthen the use of research and data analysis for the design of public policies and to sustain growth. Read and comment to the blog which is
The book by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama, Innovative Trends in Public Governance in Asia, has just been published by IOS Press. I have written, with three colleagues from Evidence Based Policy in Development Network (ebpdn) from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, one of the chapters (See book website) Governance Reforms in Three Southeast Asian
Book chapter on governance innovations in Asia. Read More »