Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are critical for emerging economies like Indonesia but simultaneously challenging for policymakers looking to support their growth. Including micro firms, SMEs are responsible for more than 97 percent of total employment in Indonesia and represent 99 percent of all firms. The Indonesian government has tried to assist SMEs through programmes, such as sub…
Program Raskin merupakan program penting dalam melindungi kesejahteraan masyarakat miskin dan rentan, mengingat nilai konsumsi beras merupakan komponen pengeluaran terbesar dalam pengeluaran rumah tangga miskin. Namun, walaupun penting, hasil temuan dari beberapa studi menunjukkan bahwa program Raskin tampaknya belum seefektif yang diharapkan. Belum optimalnya efektivitas Raskin ditunjukkan den…
This paper presents one of the first randomized evaluations of collective pay-for-performance payments for ecosystem services. We test whether community-level fiscal incentives can curtail the use of land-clearing fire, a major source of emissions and negative health externalities. The program was implemented over the 2018 fire season in Indonesia with three parts: (a) awareness raising and…
We evaluate household participation in the Indonesian Raskin program, a national rice price subsidy program for the poor. Using a household panel from the 2000 and 2007 rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), we evaluate program participation over the duration of the year prior to the 2007 survey using four different measures of participation. We find that although the poor as a who…
We investigate the impact of behavioural interventions on asset misreporting in the context of welfare benefits in Indonesia. Benefiting from a policy change allowing households to self-report their assets, we employ a series of framed field experiments with 599 welfare benefit applicants in 26 Indonesian villages to test whether two text stimuli interventions discourage dishonest asset self-re…
Should government service delivery be outsourced to the private sector? If so, how? We conduct the first randomized field experiment on these issues, spread across 572 Indonesian localities. We show that allowing for outsourcing the last mile of a subsidized food delivery program reduced operating costs without sacrificing quality. However, prices paid by citizens were lower only where we exoge…
A new World Bank Group report, entitled "Teacher Reform in Indonesia: The Role of Politics and Evidence in Policy Making", assesses the impact of the Teacher Law and its reforms, on teacher knowledge, skills, and motivations. Equally importantly, the study looks at student learning outcomes. It also explores the bill’s impact on the financing of education, and on the distribution of teachers …
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Pedoman Umum Pelaksanaan Program Keluarga Harapan (PPA-PKH) Tahun 2014 merupakan dokumen panduan yang menyusun kerangka kerja dan tata laksana dari Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) di Indonesia. PKH adalah salah satu upaya pemerintah dalam rangka mengurangi kemiskinan dan meningkatkan kualitas sumber daya manusia melalui pemberian bantuan tunai bersyarat kepada keluarga miskin yang memenuhi krite…
n the last 15 years, Indonesia has introduced a comprehensive package of education reforms designed to expand access and improve quality. A key component of the reform process has been the devolution of responsibility for basic education services to local governments and schools. These reforms, coupled with an unprecedented increase in government investment in education have resulted in signifi…