The second presidential debate was held on Sunday night (17 February) featuring just the two presidential candidates, President Jokowi and Prabowo Subianto. The themes of the debate included infrastructure, energy, natural resources, basic foodstuffs, and environment. Unlike the first debate, which was quite “narrated” by the moderators, this time the questions were unknown to the […]
Four key trends and milestones to watch in Indonesia’s economy in 2019
Despite some external pressures resulting from the US – China trade war, declining commodity prices and weakening demand in the global market, the outlook for the Indonesia’s economy in 2019 remains positive. After growing at approximately 5.1 percent last year, the world’s sixteenth largest economy is estimated to continue to grow at 5.1 percent this […]
Makassar–Yirrkala: An artist exchange taking pre-European contact into the future
The Makassar-Yirrkala Artist Exchange Program started with the artists spending 10 days together in December 2018, starting in South Sulawesi and making their way to Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land. Victorian College of the Arts Associate Director for Research Dr Danny Butt accompanied the artists and conducted interviews along the way. Trade between the […]
People and research for better health across the Timor Sea
Research is often thought of as happening in abstract, remotely in a lab or at desk overwhelmed with journal articles and books. Rather, like ocean navigators of old, our health research community chartered little known territory for the research and ideas they carried with them, connecting across the Timor Sea to explore and drive change […]
More incentive needed for ‘missing middle’ of Indonesia’s national health insurance
Low uptake amongst Indonesia’s informal sector is compromising the country’s new national health insurance scheme (JKN, Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional), introduced in 2014 by the health wing of the then newly formed social security agency, the BPJS. An AIC study has released a set of policy and service-provision recommendations that researchers hope will fix this, and […]
Governor Ridwan Kamil talks West Java, collaboration opportunities with Urban Water team
Last December’s Urban Water showcase and exhibition in Bogor was just one of several meetings through which researchers hope to maximise the reach and uptake of their 18 months’ work together. Another key encounter came two days after the Bogor event – a meeting with the famously innovative and happiness-focused governor of West Java, His […]
Health promotion: young people are here and ready to engage
Nada Alichiah Hasan-Viljakainen is a young Indonesian woman and an advocate for healthier living. She was a youth representative at the AIC’s ‘Youth are our Future’ forum in Jakarta in September 2018. As a young adult, I am passionate about better health and wellbeing for myself, my generation and today’s children. I am concerned about how […]
Indonesia Votes 2019: Presidential debate season kicks off
With exactly three months to go before polling day in Indonesia, the first of five debates between contending presidential teams took place on Thursday 17th January evening. The concept of candidate debates in Indonesia has been an evolving but growing part of the electoral process since early in the Reformasi era. Cynics have developed a […]
Showcase passes Bogor’s water sensitive future into the hands of local water champions
“In the future, I see a blue Bogor Regency – based around our 8 rivers, our 98 situ, and our two-and-a-half metres of rainfall, annually” – Dr Syarifah Sofiah, head, Bogor Regency Planning, Research & Development Agency (Bappeda-Litbang) It was not only 18 months of collaborative research and design on show at the AIC Urban Water […]