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Indonesia Project
The Indonesia Project is a center of research and graduate training on the Indonesian economy at the Australian National University (ANU). It is located in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, part of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra. It was established in 1965 with an initial grant from the Ford Foundation. History In 1963, when he became head of the Department of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies, Professor Heinz W. Arndt decided to devote substantial resources from the new department to the study of the Indonesian economy. He worked to recruit research fellows and doctoral students, built up relationships with numerous Indonesian institutions and international academics and initiated a publication program. These initiatives quickly matured into the ''Indonesia Project''. As part of the activities of the project, the academic journal the ''Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies'' (''BIES'') was estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indonesian Economy
The economy of Indonesia is the largest in Southeast Asia and is one of the emerging market economies. As a middle-income country and member of the G20, Indonesia is classified as a newly industrialized country. It is the 17th largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the 7th largest in terms of GDP (PPP). Estimated at US$40 billion in 2019, Indonesia's Internet economy is expected to cross the US$130 billion mark by 2025. Indonesia depends on the domestic market and government budget spending and its ownership of state-owned enterprises (the central government owns 141 enterprises). The administration of prices of a range of basic goods (including rice and electricity) also plays a significant role in Indonesia's market economy. However, since the 1990s, the majority of the economy has been controlled by individual Indonesians and foreign companies. In the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the government took custody of a significant portion of private sect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadi Soesastro
Hadi Soesastro (Born Tan Yueh Ming 30 April 1945 – 4 May 2010, widely known as Hadi or "Mingkie") was an Indonesian economist, academic and public intellectual. Hadi was one of the founders of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a think tank founded in 1971, where he served as an executive director and economist. The ''Jakarta Post'' referred to Soesastro as "one of Indonesia’s foremost economists." Soesastro was born in the city of Malang, East Java, Indonesia. Soesastro graduated with an aeronautical engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule in Aachen, Germany. Aside from his studies, Hadi was active in the Indonesian students association, becoming chairman of the West German branch. Soesastro obtained his doctorate from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California. He worked as an economist at the CSIS, which he helped to found. He worked as an advisor to both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic Research Institutes
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use, and management of scarce resources'. A given economy is a set of processes that involves its culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organization, political structure, legal systems, and natural resources as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions. In other words, the economic domain is a social domain of interrelated human practices and transactions that does not stand alone. Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two groups or parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Foreign Affairs And Trade (Australia)
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is the department of the Australian federal government responsible for foreign policy and relations, international aid (using the branding Australian Aid), consular services and trade and investment (including trade and investment promotion Austrade). In 2021, DFAT allocated USD 3.4 billion of official development assistance, equivalent to 0.22% of gross national income. The head of the department is its secretary, presently Jan Adams. She reports to the Penny Wong, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. History The department finds its origins in two of the seven original Commonwealth Departments established following Federation in 1901: the Department of Trade and Customs and the Department of External Affairs (DEA), headed by Harry Wollaston and Atlee Hunt respectively. The first DEA was abolished on 14 November 1916 and its responsibilities were undertaken by the Prime Minister's Department and the Department of Home and Ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AusAID
Australian Aid is the brand name used to identify projects in developing countries supported by the Australian Government. As of 2014 the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has been responsible for Australia's official development assistance ( foreign aid) to developing countries. The Australian Development Assistance Agency (ADAA) was founded in 1974 under the Whitlam Government, renamed the Australian Development Assistance Bureau (ADAB) in 1976, then the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) in 1987, before becoming the Australian Agency for International Development, known as AusAID, in 1995. It was merged into DFAT without prior consultation by the Abbott Government in 2014, with aid slashed to most regions apart from the Pacific region. History Organisational changes The agency saw a variety of names and formats. It was founded in 1974 under the Whitlam Labor government as the Australian Development Assistance Agency (ADAA) to fulf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budy P Resosudarmo
Budy P. Resosudarmo (born 1961) is a professor in development and environmental economics at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, at the Australian National University (ANU). He is the head of the ANU Indonesia Project and the deputy director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Centre. He was the education director of the Crawford School for the 2021-2022 period. Since 2022, he has been a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International. Budy has been mostly working on development and environmental issues in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. In conducting his research, he implements, among others, impact evaluation, spatial and inter-regional modelling techniques. He has been active and significantly contributing in the development of academic associations in the field of regional science and environmental economics in Southeast Asia. List of his publication can be seen atthe ANU [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thee Kian Wie
Thee Kian Wie (; April 20, 1935 – February 8, 2014) was an Indonesian economist, academic and senior member of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). ''The Jakarta Post'' has called him "one of Indonesia’s most respected economists." He was also a long time lecturer at the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Economics. Thee, a Chinese Indonesian, was born in present-day Jakarta (then known as Batavia) on April 20, 1935. He obtained a ''doctorandus'' degree from the University of Indonesia in 1959. Thee then received both his master's degree and his doctorate (1969) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral dissertation on the topic of Plantation Agriculture and Export Growth: An Economic History of East Sumatra 1863-1942' was a first step in establishing him as a professional economic historian of the Indonesian economy. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Australian National University in 2004, the Habibie Award in 2006, and the Sarwono Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Sri Mulyani Indrawati (born 26 August 1962) is an Indonesian economist who has been Minister of Finance of Indonesia since 2016; previously she served in the same post from 2005 to 2010. In June 2010 she was appointed as Managing Director of the World Bank Group and resigned as Minister of Finance. On July 27, 2016, Sri Mulyani was reappointed as Minister of Finance in a cabinet reshuffle by President Joko Widodo, replacing Bambang Brodjonegoro. As finance minister from 2005 to 2010, Sri Mulyani was known as a tough reformist and was largely credited with strengthening Indonesia's economy, increasing investments and steering Southeast Asia's largest economy through the 2007–10 financial crisis. However, Sri Mulyani was widely criticized during the Bank Century scandal in 2008 when she supported the financial bail out of 6,7 trillion rupiah, and she was later summoned to the court as a witness in 2014. In the same year, she was ranked as the 38th most powerful woman in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mubyarto
Mubyarto (3 September 1938 – 24 May 2005) was an Indonesian economist. He was born in Sleman, in Yogyakarta, and became a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta specialising in agricultural economics. He frequently wrote and spoke about challenges of agricultural development in Indonesia.Howard Dick and Peter McCawley. 2005. 'Professor Mubyarto, 1938-2005', ''Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies''. Later in his career he became known for his interest in Pancasila economics and ''ekonomi rakyat'' (people's economics).Boediono. 2005. 'Professor Mubyarto, 1938-2005', ''Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies''. Early career Mubyarto grew up in the town of Yogyakarta. He first studied economics as a student in the Economics Faculty (''Fakultas Ekonomi'') at Gadjah Mada University and he was appointed as a promising junior lecturer on graduation in 1959. Mubyarto pursued his graduate work in the United States, first earning a Master of Arts degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Pangestu
Mari Elka Pangestu (; born 23 October 1956), is an Indonesian economist who has been managing director of Development Policy and Partnerships in the World Bank since 2020. The President of the World Bank, David Malpass, announced her appointment on 9 January 2020 saying that she would be responsible for development policy and partnerships in her role in the bank. Previously she served as Minister of Trade in Indonesia from October 2004 to October 2011. Pangestu has had extensive policy-making experience in Indonesia. Following her period as Minister for Trade, in a cabinet reshuffle in October 2011 she was appointed to the newly created position of minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, a post she held until the term of the administration of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono finished on 20 October 2014. Early life and education Born in Jakarta, Pangestu obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from the Australian National University, and her Doctorate in economics from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhamad Chatib Basri
Muhamad Chatib "Dede" Basri is an Indonesian economist and was the Minister of Finance in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet between 21 May 2013 and 20 October 2014 when the term of the administration of the Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was completed. Before his appointment as Minister of Finance he was chair of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board (''Badan Kordinasi Penanaman Modal'', or BKPM). He served in a number of senior economic advisory positions before being appointed as chair of the Investment Coordinating Board in 2011. He was, amongst other things, an advisor to the former Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Deputy Chair of the president's Economic National Committee (''Komite Ekonomi Nasional'', or KEN) and was Sherpa to the president of Indonesia for G-20 meetings Basri has a PhD from the Australian National University. He also teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (FEUI) and was Director of the Lembaga Penye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boediono
Boediono ( EYD: Budiono, pronounced ; born 25 February 1943) is an Indonesian economist and statesman. He was the 11th vice president of Indonesia, in office from 2009 to 2014. He became vice president after winning the 2009 presidential election together with the then-incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Prior to this he had been the Governor of the Indonesian Central Bank and a professor of economics at Gadjah Mada University. Education Boediono received his early education in primary school in Blitar, East Java. In the early 1960s he began university studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta before winning a scholarship to study at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 1967 he graduated from the University of Western Australia with an economics degree and continued his studies for a master's degree in economics at Monash University in Melbourne which he completed in 1972. Later, he undertook further studies towards his doctorate degree from the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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