The Indonesian Crisis: A Human Development Perspective

List of Contributors

List of Contributors ix© 2003 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore ix Adrian Panggabean is a Lecturer at the University of Indonesia. At the time his chapter was written, he was Vice-President of Equity Research and Southeast Asian Economist at Nomura Singapore Limited. His research covers public finance, institutional economics, and macroeconomics. Aris Ananta is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. His current works cover labour mobility in Southeast Asia and human development in Indonesia. He is also Professor in the University of Indonesia. Budi Utomo is the Country Director of the Population Council in Indonesia. He is also a Lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of Indonesia. His interests and research works cover broad topics of reproductive health issues, including child health and nutrition. He is also working on issues related to HIV risk behaviour and capacity building in a decentralized health programme. Daksini Kartowibowo is a Junior Researcher at the Demographic Institute, University of Indonesia. She has been working mainly on the welfare of population, including those related to labour, gender, and population mobility. Her research has mostly involved directly observing the society. m n List of Contributors x List of Contributors© 2003 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore David Djaelani Gordon is the Programme Director of Yayasan Harapan Permati Hati Kita, a drug addiction and treatment recovery community and foundation, based in Ciawi, Bogor, Indonesia. He has been closely associated with drug users and the addict community since 1957. His knowledge about addicts, his training as a transpersonal psychologist, and his intensive and cumulative experience with various recovery centres in the United States and other countries has served him well in working with addicts, in both the practical and theoretical senses. David Ehrmann is Consultant to the Central Independent Monitoring Unit (CIMU) of the Indonesian Scholarship and Grants Programme (SGP) in Jakarta. The SGP is one component of the Indonesia Social Safety Net programme. Djoko Hartono is Consultant to the Central Independent Monitoring Unit (CIMU) of the Indonesian Scholarship and Grants Programme (SGP) in Jakarta. Iwan J. Azis is Professor at Cornell University and the University of Indonesia. He has published on various subjects. The recent ones include modelling counterfactual policies during the crisis (MIT Press) and contrasting the IMF’s perspectives and alternative policies on the crisis. Josep Jelahat is Assistant Lecturer at the Nusa Cendana University in Kupang, the capital of East Nusa Tenggara in eastern Indonesia. He has been extensively involved in various government-sponsored research projects throughout the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Joyce Djaelani Gordon is a Psychologist, and founder of the Yayasan Harapan Permata Hati Kita (Yayasan KITA), a drug addiction and treatment recovery community based in Ciawi, Bogor, Indonesia. She has been actively involved in various health NGOs since 1984, including the Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association and Friends of Youth in Jakarta, as well as international NGOs such as Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Project Concern International (PCI), CARE, WHO, and John Snow. She also teaches Social Intervention at Atmajaya University in Jakarta. Linda Low is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Policy, National University of Singapore. Her research interests and List of Contributors xi© 2003 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore publications cover the political economy aspects in the Asia Pacific and ASEAN, on the subjects of trade, services, regionalism, human resource development, public sector economics, privatization, social security, and comparative economic development. Maribeth Erb is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. She has been doing research in western Flores since the early 1980s, and has been recently interested in the development of tourism there. Muhadjir Darwin is the Director of the Master’s Programme in Public Administration at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, and also a senior researcher at the Centre for Population and Policy Studies in the same university. His research interest focuses on violence against women and institutional improvement of local government. Muhammad Chatib Basri is Associate Director for Research at the Institute of Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia. He is also a Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia. He has research interests in the area of international trade, macroeconomics, and political economy. Nur Hadi Wiyono is Junior Researcher at the Demographic Institute, Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia. He is also the managing editor of Warta Demografi...