Policy Research
When President Jokowi took the office at the end of 2014, Indonesia was facing the problem of stagnating poverty and inequality reduction. He quickly introduced several initiatives to address these problems, mainly in the form of cards which gave the poor access to education and health services as well as food and cash transfer, and grants for villages as mandated by the Village Law.
The Indonesia Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) has run for four years and entered in July 2017 its second phase. Against this backdrop, KSI commissioned this research to inform its design and delivery. It aimed to explore what specific factors and actors shape the policy process? Whose and what type of knowledge tends to be influential in shaping policy and why?
The primary objectives of the research is to deepen the understanding of the current context with relation to GESI.
This chapter’s contribution is the first effort to reveal the pattern of employment transformation using a long-term longitudinal survey, the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS).1 Utilizing this dataset, we have generated matrixes of employment transformation for a 17-year period.
Redistribution program in developing countries often "leak" because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted beneficiaries increase the subsidy they receive from a subsidized rice program.
