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  Artikel  ini adalah artikel tanya jawab dalam Laporan Khusus (Lapsus) M ajalah Edents  bulan  No. 20/XXXVIII/2014  Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Diponegoro, E disi  “ Menerawang Indonesia Pasca MDGs ” yang kebetulan saya menjadi narasumbernya. Berikut kutipan tanya jawab tersebut; Agung Wasono adalah Program Manager di Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan), sebuah lembaga non-profit yang mendedikasikan usahanya untuk reformasi pemerintahan di Indonesia. Agung juga lama berkiprah mendorong percepatan pencapaian MDGs di Indonesia.  Gelar   Master of Economics  didapatnya  dari Universitas Indonesia . Agung  lahir di Magelang dan sekarang tinggal di Jakarta. Karena aktivitasnya dalam agenda-agenda MDGs, tahun lalu Agung menjadi salah satu perwakilan Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Indonesia untuk High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLPEP) Meeting untuk Agenda Pembangunan Pasca-2015 di Monrovia. Agung juga menjadi kontak pers...

  In his speech to the House of Representatives on Aug. 15, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono claimed that his administration had successfully implemented pro-poor policies and programs. He stressed the progress made in Indonesia’s development, citing a number of macro-economic indicators, especially the country’s resilience during the global economic crisis in 2008. He reminded the House that Indonesia’s economic growth rate in 2009-13 was higher than that of the United States, Europe and Japan during the same period, and in the first semester of 2014, Indonesia’s economic growth remained the highest after China among the members of the G-20. Also, Indonesia’s foreign debt-to-GDP ratio is very low at 23 percent, 2014 saw the highest state revenues in history, and per-capita income has more than tripled from Rp 10.5 million ($890) in 2004 to Rp 36.6 million ($3,100) in 2013. The president also pointed to Indonesia’s membership of the G-20, giving it a voice in global decision-maki...

A Critical Review of Decentralising Education in Indonesia; An article by Stein Kristiansen and Pratikno By: Agung Wasono Introduction Decentralising Education in Indonesia is an article published in 2006 by Stein Kristiansen and Pratikno. Kristiansen and Pratikno begin their article by giving the picture of Indonesia’s decentralisation reform which began in 2001 as an impact of multidimensional crisis in Indonesia in 1997 and 1998. In this article, Kristiansen and Pratikno (2006) explore the impact of the decentralisation era in Indonesia, especially on the quality of primary and secondary education. [1]  The article argues that the decentralisation of the education sector from central government to local governments ( Kabupaten/Kota ) was not successful in solving the problem of Indonesia’s education. There are three ultimate findings as conclusions of the article; the first is the lack of transparency and accountability of administration and services, the second is the increase ...

  Nutley, Walter and Davies (2009: 8) state that the scope and accuracy of research in policy is usually the subject of competing opinions [1]  and claims [2] , but the debate is often not so much about whether research has been used, but more about how it has been used. This is important to note that the argument given by the writers should be understood with the foundation that what constitutes the nature of research is broad and there is also no specific definition about research (Court, Hovland & Young 2005, cited in Nutley, Walter and Davis 2009: 2). In my evaluation, the argument given by Nutley, Walter and Davies above is true. I agree with the overall statement. However, we need to be more careful to define whether something is real public opinion or just merely interest groups’ opinion. Using another perspectives (for example political perspective) to understand the broad discussion on public policy is also important.        ...

  In designing applied social research by experiment, researcher can choose to use either randomised experiments or quasi-experiments (Hall 2008: 82). Randomised experiment – often called randomised control trials or RCT (Wade 1999 and Bryman 2008: 36) – was initially used in natural science research but know it becomes common research method use by social scientists (Bryman 2008: 35-37 and Hall 2008: 82). Stolberg, Norman and Trop (2004: 1539) state that the history of the RCT began long time ago in 600 B.C. by Daniel of Judah when he conducted clinical trial to assess the effect of vegetarian diet. The RCT is a study in which people or participants are allocated at random to receive one of several interventions or treatments (Stolberg et al 2004: 1539). Hall (2008: 83) distinguishes the RCT and observational studies in a very important respect because the observational study examines phenomenon in the normal course of events but in the RCT, the researcher controls the conditions ...