Policy Research
The objective of this study is to obtain a description of child well-being, caregiving arrangements, and child caregiving practices in both poor migrant and non-migrant families in two migrant sending districts, namely Kabupaten Banyumas and Kabupaten Lombok Tengah. This description is followed by an explanation of government and community support, especially for poor children who were left by their migrant mothers.
Early this year The SMERU Research Institute completed its research on food price volatility. The objective of this research was to document the experiences of the poor in facing sudden and uncertain changes in food price. The study was conducted in three villages, each in Kabupaten Bekasi, Kabupaten Cianjur, and Kabupaten Banjar, from 2012 to 2016.
Globally, 2015 was the final year of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the start of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new global development agenda. Nationally, 2015 was the start of the implementation of the Village Law, which mandates the central government to allocate a specific amount of funds to villages so that they can finance their own development programs.
This study aims to identify the contributing factors and root causes impacting child labour in tobacco-growing areas, and to provide a representative situation of children and/or youth working in agriculture and on small-scale tobacco farms in Indonesia.
Indonesia has seen an emergence of local health care financing schemes over the last decade, implemented and operated by district governments. Often motivated by the local political context and characterized by a large degree of heterogeneity in scope and design, the common objective of the district schemes is to address the coverage gaps for the informal sector left by national social health insurance programs.
