Komitmen Indonesia untuk ikut berkontribusi dalam mengatasi ma-salah Perubahan iklim di dunia disampaikan secara eksplisit pada pidato Presiden Republik Indonesia, Soesilo Bambang Yudhonono, dalam Per...
Informasi dan klaim tentang berlangsungnya kegiatan pertambangan di hutan konservasi dapat dengan mudah kita jumpai. Salah satunya, Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) dalam presentasi tentang koordina...
The ASEAN wide economic cooperation under the ‘ASEAN umbrella principle' is fitting the ASEAN's ‘open and soft regionalism' character. It helps ASEAN to achieve a comprehensive trade and investment in...

I. Kadek Dian Sutrisna Artha
The recent financial crisis has spread to the rest of the world. The impact of the financial crisis on economic activity varies widely across countries, reflecting differences in vulnerability to fina...
Using three waves of survey data from fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia for 2005-2009, we examine the determinants of local volunteer labor after the tsunami. Pre-existing social capital and the for...
This study aims to examine the determinants of poverty dynamics in Indonesia. This study applies the spell approach of poverty experience and the ordered logit model to identify the poverty status of ...

Tiago Freire, Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro
Using survey data on fishermen and fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia from 2005 and 2007, this paper examines the effect of the December 2004 tsunami and resulting massive aid effort on local public ...

Teguh Dartanto
This research is conducted to quantitatively measure the relationship between corruption and public investment at municipalities' level in Indonesia. According to Nash Equilibrium derived from mixed s...

Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro
Indonesia has a tradition of corruption among local officials who harass and collect bribes from firms. Corruption flourished in the Suharto, pre-democracy era. This paper asks whether local democrati...
Bribes by firms in Indonesia arise principally from regulations –licenses and levies –imposed by local government officials. Regulations generate direct revenues (fees) plus indirect revenues in the f...
It has been more then four years since the economic crisis in Indonesia. While other Asian countries such as South Korea and Malaysia have shown significant improvement, Indonesia seems to have the sl...

Ari Kuncoro
The theoritical literature makes ambiguous predication about the relationship between the extent of rent extraction by private parties and its impact on economic activities. One view argues that after...
Using extensive data on 1970 and 1987 urban characteristics, the paper analyzes changes in employment in specific manufacturing industries in cities between 1970 and 1987. Two sets of questions are th...