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This study examines how gender norms and social factors influence women’s participation as online motorcycle taxi drivers in Indonesia, while testing the effectiveness of role model–based interventions in overcoming the barriers they face.
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The manufacturing sector plays a pivotal role in Indonesia’s journey toward becoming a high-income country. To support this agenda, SMERU has conducted a study on the competitiveness and productivity of Indonesia’s manufacturing sector. This study aims to provide evidence-based inputs for policies to strengthen the sector in the years ahead.
This study investigates the evolving role of domestic workers (pekerja rumah tangga/PRT) in Indonesia's care economy. Their labor enables families to participate in paid employment, education, and public life.
The progressive development of new town projects, which has brought impacts on peri-urban transformations, has become a key element of post-suburbanization in the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA). One such transformation arises from the free-rider phenomenon, referring to the growth of small-scale housing around new town projects that is intentionally built to ride on the city-scale infrastructure they provide.
Parental involvement in children’s education is often constrained by limited information, low agency, and weak incentives. This study examines whether a government-led education system can address these barriers through a low-cost, low-touch intervention implemented by public schools and teachers in Kebumen, Indonesia, where teacher capacity is moderate but learning outcomes have stagnated.
