Latest Publications

Public Policy Towards the Elderly in Indonesia: Current Policy and Future Directions

March, 2006 | Alex Arifianto
The paper concludes with some recommendations on what Indonesia could do to create a comprehensive aging policy that would protect its elderly population from old age insecurity in the coming decades.

The Implementation of Direct Cash Transfer in Indonesia

March, 2006 | Wenefrida Dwi Widyanti, Robert Justin Sodo, Syaikhu Usman, Hastuti , Sudarno Sumarto, Mimin Rukmini, Sad Dian Utomo

Predicting Consumption Poverty Using Non-consumption Indicators: Experiments Using Indonesian Data

February, 2006 | Sudarno Sumarto, Daniel Suryadarma, Asep Suryahadi
In this study, we experiment with three approaches to predict consumption expenditure and poverty at household and aggregate level as simpler alternatives to using consumption expenditure.

Objective Measures of Family Welfare for Individual Targeting: Results from Pilot Project on Community Based Monitoring System in Indonesia

December, 2005 | Daniel Suryadarma, Akhmadi , Hastuti , Nina Toyamah

Inequality: An Old Issue of New Relevance

December, 2005 | Asep Suryahadi, Daniel Suryadarma, Sri Budiyati, Akhmadi , M. Sulton Mawardi, Armida S. Alisjahbana, Noer Fauzi, Usep Setiawan
The present-day relevance of inequality has encouraged SMERU to present this issue as the focus of discussion in this issue of our newsletter.