Seminar | Putting multidimensional poverty indicators into the government’s radar: Leaving no one behind in 2045 Indonesia’s vision | Putu Natih

A few weeks ago, LPEM-FEBUI, an Indonesian leading economic research institute under the Department of Economics, University of Indonesia, launched a white paper – a compilation of 14 papers written by the younger generation of Indonesian economists –, a sobering and critical evaluation on the challenges and prospects of Indonesia in meeting its goal of reaching high-income country status by 2045 (Indonesia Emas 2045).

In this seminar, Putu Geniki Lavinia Natih will present her chapter contribution to that Paper. She will discuss her findings that, among others, despite significant consumption-based poverty reduction in Indonesia, other indicators of deprivations, especially assets ownerships and access to housing and sanitation, remain problematic. In addition, broadening the set of government’s targets in reducing deprivations is required to match the desired profile of Indonesia as an aspiring high-income country.

Speaker

Putu Natih is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia. She is also a remote researcher at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the University of Oxford. Before FEB UI, Putu was a researcher at OPHI, working on multidimensional poverty across different countries using large scale survey data, research assistant at the Blavatnik School working on digital inequality and was a statistics tutor at St John’s and Keble Colleges, Oxford. Putu was a Jardine-Oxford Scholar at Trinity College Oxford University, where she completed her DPhil and MPhil. Her research interests include multidimensional poverty, inequality, statistics and measurement.

Moderator

Rizal Shidiq is a lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is an economist by training with primary fields in development economics and monetary theory, and secondary field public choice. His current research topics are on political connections in developing countries, religious intolerance, and democratic vulnerabilities. He has extensive knowledge on Indonesian economy and politics.

Format, date, time & venue

This seminar is a hybrid event and will be held in the conference room of KITLV (room 1.68) and online via Zoom, on Friday 17 November,  from 14.00 – 15.30 PM (CET).

Registration

If you want to join this seminar on location, please register via: [email protected].

If you wish to join this webinar online, please register here.

Organizers

This seminar is organized by the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and KITLV.

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Activities of crowded riverbank inhabitants in Kebon Kacang, Jakarta, vicinity, May 30, 2023. Photographer: TEMPO/Tony Hartawan.