Photo courtesy: Lembaga Demografi FEB UI Indonesia’s labor force has become increasingly mobile, both in terms of geography as well as industry. To discuss the implications of these movements on [...]
Photo courtesy: Lembaga Demografi FEB UI Indonesia’s fertility rate has declined smoothly during most of the New Order up to the early Reformation era (1971-2000). However, the data shows that [...]
The status of minority groups in Indonesia has fluctuated over time. In recent years, Indonesia’s “unity in diversity” motto has been a subject of scrutiny, especially regarding the state and [...]
The imprisonment of Jakarta’s former governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (BTP), who is a Christian and is of Chinese descent, raised a question of how Muslims in a Muslim-majority society, such [...]
Batam’s strategic location has made it a city with one of the highest growths in Indonesia. However, the city has faced rapid economic slowdowns in recent years. On Thursday, 27 [...]
On Monday, 17 June 2019 Bank Indonesia Institute hosted the first FKP event of the month. Sharing his 25 years of experience working with central banks, Douglas Laxton (NOVA School [...]
Indonesia’s upcoming demographic dividend, which refers to the change in the age structure of a country's population that is characterized by the bigger share of the working-age population than that [...]
The migration of a household member and its impacts on left-behind children has been a common topic in many previous studies. However, most of them did not utilize longitudinal datasets [...]
Despite many hurdles and challenges such as the financial crises in the late 90s and 2007-2008 and the taper tantrum in 2013, Indonesian economy has constantly managed to prevail. However, [...]
Since the financial crisis in the late 1990s, the government of Indonesia has introduced a number of social protection programs to protect the poor and vulnerable. On Tuesday, 14 May [...]