Latest Publications

The Preemployment Card Program amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Assessment from the Perspective of the Program Participants

July, 2020 | Palmira Permata Bachtiar, Luhur Bima, Michelle Andrina, Nila Warda, Asri Yusrina
COVID-19

Recovering Learning Losses as Schools Reopen in Indonesia: Guidance for Policymakers

July, 2020 | Daniel Suryadarma, Menno Pradhan, Amanda Beatty, Goldy Fariz Dharmawan, Florischa Ayu Tresnatri
This note contains: (i) guidelines for recovering learning losses; (ii) aspects that should be monitored as schools reopen; (iii) list of educational practices for learning catch up for all students.
COVID-19

Learning from Home: A Portrait of Teaching and Learning Inequalities in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

July, 2020 | Luhur Bima, Ulfah Alifia, Rezanti Putri Pramana, Arjuni Rahmi Barasa, Florischa Ayu Tresnatri, Shintia Revina
Highly varied learning facilities and support from parents among students, even in a class taught by the same teacher, leads to equally varied practices of learning from home. This widens even further learning inequalities among students.
COVID-19

The (Lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia

July, 2020 | Sudarno Sumarto, Benjamin A Olken, Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna
We ran a nationwide experiment in Indonesia where, in randomly selected provinces, the government added questions on flat-screen televisions and cell-phone SIM cards to the targeting census administered to 25 million households.

The Struggle to Recruit Good Teachers in Indonesia: Institutional and Social Dysfunctions

June, 2020 | Akhmadi , Rizki Fillaili, Aris Huang, Shintia Revina
Why is it so hard for Indonesia to recruit good teachers? We argue that the struggle to recruit good teachers are due to institutional, political economy, and social dynamics of the recruitment process. We will discuss three factors that underpin this issue