In the past 15 years, the Government of Indonesia has implemented a variety of social assistance programmes intended to improve the lives of the poor and help them escape poverty. Many of these programmes are now operating at a national scale and cover millions of Indonesians. Using a new household survey dataset that covers the eastern areas of Indonesia (Indonesian Family Life Survey East …
Indonesia telah mengalami transisi demografis sejak tahun 1970-an yang membawa perubahanperubahan penting dalam hal struktur usia populasi negara ini. Angka harapan hidup pada saat lahir meningkat dari 45 tahun menjadi 67 tahun. Jumlah penduduk lanjut usia yang berusia 60 tahun lebih telah meningkat dari sekitar lima juta pada tahun 1970 menjadi 18 juta pada tahun 2010, dan diproyeksikan akan b…
Indonesia in 2013 was an ageing society with an elderly population (60+) of approximately 18 million or eight percent of the total population. Due to continuously low fertility levels, lower mortality and higher life expectancy rates, the number of elderly in the country is predicted to increase to more than 80 million individuals by 2050 who will by then constitute about 25 percent of the tota…
Poverty and the Labour Market in Indonesia: Employment Trends across the Wealth Distribution', is among Indonesia's first papers on the relationship between poverty and the labour market. It provides a detailed analysis of employment indicators (labour force participation rates, hours worked, and type and sector of employment) for the period 2000-2012 across the entire wealth distribution, by l…
Indonesia telah mengalami transisi demografis sejak tahun 1970-an yang membawa perubahanperubahan penting dalam hal struktur usia populasi negara ini. Angka harapan hidup pada saat lahir meningkat dari 45 tahun menjadi 67 tahun. Jumlah penduduk lanjut usia yang berusia 60 tahun lebih telah meningkat dari sekitar lima juta pada tahun 1970 menjadi 18 juta pada tahun 2010, dan diproyeksikan akan b…
In the past few decades, the Government of Indonesia has passed and signed a substantial number of domestic laws and international conventions/treaties that deal with the rights and opportunities of persons with disabilities (PWDs). Disability is a cross-cutting issue and requires an extensive review and monitoring of multiple pieces of legislation that have already been passed in or ratified b…
The health benefits to mothers and children in adopting optimal breastfeeding practices are well recognized. However, despite many efforts to promote optimal breastfeeding practices in developing countries, only modest progress has been achieved in past decades. This paper attempts to fill several important research gaps on the socioeconomic determinants of optimal breastfeeding. In contrast…
The first round of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) East was conducted in Eastern Indonesia in 2012. This paper is intended to provide researchers and policy makers alike an introduction to and brief overview of this new dataset. Topics covered include technical details of survey implementation (sampling procedure, calculation of weights, and field implementation) and a socioeconomic ove…
Little is known about public health-care supply in Eastern Indonesia, a region that shows worse health outcomes than the rest of the country. Drawing on a new dataset (IFLS East 2012), this paper examines the availability and quality of public health-care facilities (puskesmas and posyandu) in Eastern Indonesia. Our findings suggest that public health-care supply plays a larger and more impo…