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This report serves as the final report of the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility research project in Indonesia. Results discussed in this report are based on the third year research activities focused on changing food habits and people’s perspectives towards processed and unsafe food.
Local health financing scheme in Indonesia has been a continuing debate over the last decade. These local initiatives were mainly motivated by local political contexts in the decentralization era that stipulates roles of local governments in public spending and service delivery in various sectors, including health.
From this study we found that, while JKN indeed protects the insured, poor pregnant mothers and newborns from direct medical cost, they still experience significant indirect costs to access the MNCH services.
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.
This research is a part of a four-year longitudinal study from 2014–2020 which aims to analyze the impact of the fixed fuel subsidy policy on the livelihood of poor women, particularly on the livelihood aspects that are the working themes of MAMPU.
