Browsing by Subject "Indonesia"

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    Effects of toll road construction on local road projects in Indonesia
    (Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2019) Ayu Andani, I. G.; La Paix Puello, Lissy; Geurs, Karst
    This study investigates the extent to which the construction of national toll roads in the Jakarta–Bandung region in Indonesia induces the development of local road projects nearby. In doing so, we disentangle the direct and indirect supply effects by considering the year of construction and urban development, respectively. We formulate four binary logit models to examine the direct and indirect relationships between toll road construction and local road projects. The dataset comprises 94 road projects planned or carried out between 2004 and 2016. We conduct interviews with local officials in the Jakarta–Bandung area to obtain data on the projects’ decision-making processes. Our modelling results show that existing and planned toll roads induce the development of local road projects both directly and indirectly. Local road projects tend to be developed in anticipation of the opening of a toll road. The changes in residential area and population around the toll roads also induce local road construction.
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    Non-Aligned Features: The Coincidence of Modernity and the Screen in Indonesia
    (2016-12) Yngvesson, Dag
    In Non-Aligned Features: The Coincidence of Modernity and the Screen in Indonesia, I deploy extensive archival, ethnographic, and participatory research on Indonesian mass media as a critical intervention in the study of cinema. Examining Indonesian cinema from independence in 1949 until the present, I focus in particular on complicating understandings of how Western technologies, techniques and ideas have functioned as catalysts or determinants for the development of both nationalism and national cinemas worldwide. I examine local cinematic canons that bear the imprint of centuries of engagement with various transnational networks and forces. In the view that emerges, the pervasive politics of left-right alignment specific to the Cold War appear radically shifted – not simply, however, to a place “between” the binary poles of the United States and the Soviet Union, or within the triad of classical, oppositional, and Third cinemas that articulate their struggle as an epic of superpowers. Instead, following many of the Indonesian cineastes and critics I study, I endeavor to open the reading, viewing, present to an older domain of aesthetics and commodity exchange in which the linear arrangement of events leading to and from the rise of capitalism in Europe is made to coincide with other probable causes of the modern. In this regard, I engage in particular with the discourses and modes of address of Javanese wayang – the conceptual-textual center of shadow play and a critical platform for Indonesian art, politics and historiography, whose narratives and screens are always positioned to “coincide” with the present state of affairs. Far from buried or brushed aside in contemporary geopolitics, I argue that the methods and perspectives underpinning media like wayang continue to act as filters that critically influence the circulation and absorption of aesthetic and political ideas. The lineage of cinema’s development in Indonesia thus defined a form and sphere of influence neither here nor there, then nor now in the broadest terms of film theory and practice.
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    Symbol and Community as Activism: Techniques from the Tradition of the Indonesian Shadow Play and Their Potential Application with At-Risk Youth on St. Paul’s East Side
    (2017-12) Markell, Melinda S.
    Minnesota has been struggling to find a solution which places both students of color and white students at the same level of success in their schooling. Empowering students to communicate their concerns and therefore invest in the quality of their own schooling is key. This can be accomplished through a proposed curriculum which combines Wayang or Indonesian shadow plays, the power of symbol, and citizen professionalism. Students learn how Indonesians have used symbol in their plays to communicate social concerns and through citizen professionalism create a play of their own. The process gives students the opportunity to build community amongst themselves with the ultimate goal of addressing social concerns in a way that leads to solutions-based discussion.
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    Three Essays on Child and Female Welfare in Indonesia
    (2017-12) Irhamni, Milda
    An extensive literature generally agrees that early childhood development can have lasting impacts on adulthood outcomes. Because skills are shaped by both genetic factors and choices, investments in the early years of childhood can be important determinants for adult outcomes. Furthermore, child development research also shows that there are sensitive periods in a child’s life for the development of their skills. This thesis examines factors that determine human capital accummulation during childhood. The first essay examines the underlying factors that led to the small impacts of Indonesia’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program on child health outcomes. This study develops a theory of change to provide a framework for understanding the poor performance of the Indonesia’s CCT program, and proposes seven different hypotheses that explains this performance of the CCT program. The second essay estimates the impact of the 1997 East Asian Financial Crisis on the cognitive skills of children in Indonesia. Due to the paucity of data, there have been few studies focusing on child cognitive skills in Indonesia. This essay tries to address this by using the rich data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The third, and last, essay attempts to estimate the causal impacts of religiosity on female autonomy. This essay is motivated by studies that have shown positive impacts of female bargaining power within household on child outcomes. Thus, understanding what determines women’s autonomy is important not only due to its direct benefit to the women, but also to its indirect benefit through the impacts on their children.
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    Three essays on decision-making under uncertainty in developing countries.
    (2012-08) Lim, Sung Soo
    People face substantial risk and uncertainty throughout most developing countries. Economists have provided an array of economic theories to explain how decision agents make choices under uncertainty. Decision theory distinguishes between risky prospects and uncertain prospects. Under the classical theory of decision under risk, the utility of each outcome is weighted by its probability of occurrence. Expected utility theory was developed to explain attitudes toward risk, namely risk aversion and risk loving. Experimental studies of decision under risk have shown that people often violate the expected utility model. This study has been prompted by two questions about decision making under uncertainty: (1) Do agents in developing countries conceptualize the uncertainty in a way that is consistent with expected utility theory? (2) How do agents cope with uncertainty that lasts a long period of time? The first question is motivated by a notion that studies in the field of development economics often confound the two concepts of risk and uncertainty under the paradigm of expected utility theory. The second question is motivated by another notion, which is that there are a limited number of studies that investigate coping strategies of households during a prolonged period of uncertainty, such as morbidity shocks. To address these two questions, the first essay revisits the neoclassical theory of migration. The second and the third essays examine the impact of prime-age adult morbidity on intrahousehold resource allocation.
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    Value Chain Analysis in Lampung Province, Indonesia
    (2019-09) Masterpole, Zoe C; Teleposky, Emily R; Thompson, Josh A; Zaghloul, Sara E