Indonesia Update Conference 2004
Natural Resources in Indonesia: The Economic, Political and Environmental Challenges
24–25 September 2004
About the speakers
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is a senior lecturer and researcher at Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia. She received a Bachelor of Economics (1985) from the University of Indonesia, an MA in Economics (1987) from Northwestern University, and a PhD in Economics (1994) from the University of Washington. Her research interests include the economics of education, green accounting and sustainable development measurement, household economics, public economics, decentralisation, poverty and income inequality. She has been involved in various research projects, among others with the UN University/Institute for Advanced Studies, the World Bank, and Bank Indonesia, and has been a consultant with the ADB, the World Bank, AusAID, JBIC and the European Commission. She has written extensively in national and international economic journals, and is currently a member of the International Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES).
Edward Aspinall is a Lecturer in Southeast Asian Studies and History at the University of Sydney. Before joining the University of Sydney, Dr Aspinall was a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. He co-edited the book that resulted from the 2002 Indonesia Update conference, Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Decentralisation and Democratisation. His book, Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia, will be published by Stanford University Press in 2005. He is currently writing a further book on Acehnese nationalism.
Iwan Jaya Azis is Professor of Regional Science and Economics at Cornell University. His publications have addressed the topics of macro–micro linkages, economic forecasting and financial economics. He has conducted research and consulting work for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations, the UN University, USAID, the ADB Institute, the Research Triangle Institute, as well as some government agencies. In early 1998, he was invited to speak before the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the US Congress on the Asian financial crisis, along with the deputy prime ministers of Thailand and Korea. His work on impact analysis has been adopted as one of the tools by the UN General Assembly (the 53rd session) for the implementation of provisions of the charter related to assistance to third states affected by the application of sanctions, UN report A/53/312, August 1998. Professor Azis has recently completed three years of policy research for the Institute of Advance Studies at the UN University on sustainable development within the framework of the economic–social–environmental nexus: assessing performance and future scenarios for Indonesia.
Ian Coxhead is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a PhD in Economics from the ANU. He teaches and conducts research on development economics. His work concentrates on trade, resource allocation, growth and the environment in the developing countries of Southeast Asia, and on policy issues related to these subjects. He is author, with Sisira Jayasuriya, of The Open Economy and the Environment: Development, Resources and Trade in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2003).
Ian Dutton is Director of the Conservation Measures Group of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) where he leads the development of global performance monitoring and evaluation systems. He was formerly the Indonesia Country Program Director for TNC. From 1996–2001, he was Chief of Party of Proyek Pesisir, the USAID coastal resources management project. In the early 1990s, he was seconded to UNDIP, IPB and various Provincial Government agencies in Eastern Indonesia to develop marine planning and science capacity. In those roles, he was instrumental in developing some of the first local regulations and management plans for coral reefs and fisheries and provided national marine policy and academic curriculum guidance. Ian has worked for government, academic, non-profit and private sector organisations throughout Asia, Australia and the USA. He holds a BSc from the University of Canberra, an MSc from Griffith University and a PhD from the University of Queensland. He has authored some 150 papers on various aspects of natural resources management and is a founding editor of Jurnal Pesisir dan Lautan.
Erwiza Erman is a researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Science. She received a PhD from the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam with the title of her dissertation is 'Miners, Managers and the State: Socio-Political History of the Ombilin Coal Mines, West Sumatra, 1892–1996'. She has been a visiting researcher at IIAS–Clara–IISG, the Netherlands (2001); GSID, Nagoya University, Japan (2003), KITLV–Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Carribean Studies, the Netherlands (2004). For the last ten years her research activities have focussed on the historical, political and social aspects of mining activities in the Western part of Sumatra, Bangka–Belitung, South and East Kalimantan. She published the book Kesenjangan Buruh–Majikan: Pengusaha, Koeli, dan Penguasa. Industri Timah Belitung, 1852–1940. Articles published among others are: 'Generalized Violence, A Case Study of the Ombilin Coal Mines, 1892–1996' in Roots of violence in Indonesia: Contemporary violence in historical perspective edited by Freek Colombijn and Thomas Lindblad (KITLV Press, 2002); 'Hidden Histories: Gender, Family and Community in the Ombilin Coalmines 1892–1965' in Labour in Southeast Asia: Local processes in a globalised World edited by Becky Elmhirst and Ratna Saptari (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
James Fox is a Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Before joining the ANU, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor at Harvard University (1969–75). He has been a Visiting Professor at various institutions, including Nusa Cendana University, Duke, Cornell, Bielefeld, Chicago, Leiden, and the National University of Singapore. For a long time Professor Fox has conducted research on the history and anthropology of Indonesia, rural development and resource management, social organisation and symbolic systems, linguistic anthropology and comparative Austronesian ethnology. His publications include Harvest of the Palm: Ecological Change in Eastern Indonesia; The Flow of Life: Essays on Eastern Indonesia; To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia; Religion and Ritual: Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia Vol. 9; and The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality.
Paul Gellert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Development Sociology and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, USA. He received MSc and PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During 2004–05, he is a visiting researcher at CIFOR in Bogor, Indonesia, and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, to conduct research under an Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council on 'Globalization or Regionalization? Japan, Indonesia, the United States and the Political Economy of Timber'. His articles 'Renegotiating a Timber Commodity Chain: Lessons from Indonesia on the Political Construction of Global Commodity Chains', appeared in Sociological Forum (2003) and 'A Brief History and Analysis of Indonesia's Forest Fire Crisis', in the journal Indonesia (1998).
Anton Hermanto Gunawan is a country Economist in the Economic and Market Analysis Department at Citibank Jakarta as well as a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia. He received a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Indonesia, an MA in Economics from the University of Chicago, and a MPhil in Economics from Columbia University. Prior to joining Citibank in November 2000, he was the Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for Economic and Social Research at the University of Indonesia. He published the book Anggaran Pemerintah dan Inflasi di Indonesia (Government Budget and Inflation in Indonesia) (Gramedia, 1991), edited the book Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting in Emerging Economies (BI and IMF, 2000), wrote many short articles, and is frequently quoted in foreign and domestic news media.
Joan Hardjono is a human geographer who has written extensively on environmental issues as well as on transmigration, poverty and rural conditions in Indonesia. She works as a social assessment consultant and has undertaken studies for various international institutions that include the World Bank, ADB, UNDP, AusAID and ILO. She edited Indonesia: Resources, Ecology, and Environment (1991) and co-edited Labour: Sharing in the Benefits of Growth? (1993) and Development in Eastern Indonesia (1996). More recently she co-authored People, Poverty and Livelihoods: Links for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Indonesia (2002). She is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies.
Ariel Heryanto is a Senior Lecturer with the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne. He received an MA in Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Anthropology from Monash University. His recent publications include "The Debris of Post-Authoritarianism in Indonesia", in Democracy and Civil Society in Asia (vol. 2) , F. Quadir & J. Lele (eds), Palgrave and Macmillan, London: pp. 65-85 (2004); "Public Intellectuals, Media and Democratization", in A. Heryanto and S.K. Mandal (eds) Challenging Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: comparing Indonesia and Malaysia, London: Routledge Curzon, pp. 24-59 (2003); "Can There be Southeast Asians in Southeast Asian Studies?" Moussons, 5 (2002): 3-30
Isna Marifa holds an MSc in Technology and Policy (1987) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor degree in Geology (1985) from Bryn Mawr College (USA). Her professional career started at the US Agency for International Development in Jakarta, where she was involved in natural resource management. Following that, she worked as an advisor at the Ministry of Environment under CIDA's Environment and Development in Indonesia Project. She then moved to Mobil Oil Indonesia, as environmental advisor. In 1995, she and several colleagues established a private firm providing environmental consultancy and training services. Through various activities, Isna Marifa conducts policy studies and provides inputs to the government, and in turn observes the impact of policies at the local level and on the private sector.
Ross McLeod is a Fellow in the Indonesia Project, Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, at the ANU. He has been working in and on Indonesia—as postgraduate student, consultant and academic researcher—since 1978, and is a fluent Indonesian speaker. Since October 1998 he has been Editor of the University's Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, a journal that has provided continuous commentary and research on the Indonesian economy for the last four decades. Prior to joining the Indonesia Project in 1992, he worked as a private consultant based in Canberra, but focusing primarily on banking and finance in Indonesia.
Warwick McKibbin is Professor of International Economics and Director of the Centre of Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Economics Department, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Professor McKibbin spent 16 years at the Reserve Bank of Australia and has been a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance and the US Congressional Budget Office. He has been a consultant for international agencies including the United Nations, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and for the governments of Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States on issues of macroeconomic policy, international trade and finance and greenhouse policy issues. Professor McKibbin has published widely in technical journals and the popular press. His books include Global Linkages: Macroeconomic Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy, written with Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University, and Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach, with Professor Peter Wilcoxen of the University of Texas.
Krystof Obidzinski is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Forestry Research. He received a PhD from the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. In the last five years, the socio-economic aspect of illegal logging in Kalimantan has been his main research interest.
Jason Patlis has more than 12 years' experience as a lawyer. He received a JD from Cornell Law School in May 1992. His experience has focused on natural resource law and governance, but also includes legislative and administrative law, federal civil procedure, international and comparative law, particularly as they relate to emerging democracies and developing countries. For the last decade, he has specialized in the drafting and development of laws for a wide variety of governments in the US and overseas, at the international, national and subnational levels.
Emil Salim is a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia. From 1973 until 1978, he was the Minister of Transportation. From 1978 until 1993, he was the Minister of Population and Environment. Professor Salim has also played an important role in many international and national non-government organisations including the United Nations High Level Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. He was chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. He was co-chairman of the World Commission on Forestry and Sustainable Development. He serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees for a number of leading Indonesian environmental organisations, such as the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation, the Foundation for Sustainable Development and the Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute. Professor Salim is the most prominent Indonesian figure in the field of environmental studies.
Mas Achmad Santosa is the founder of and a Senior Researcher at the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL). Previously, he was the Executive Director of ICEL (1993-2000). Currently, he is also the Legal Advisor for the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia. He received a Sarjana degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Indonesia and an LLM from the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Mas Achmad Santosa has been actively involved in the development of Law No. 23/1999 on Environmental Management and in the construction of the draft law on natural resources. In 2001, he received the Satya Lencana National Development Award (Tanda Kehormatan Satya Lencana Pembangunan Nasional) from the Indonesian government.
Francisia Saveria Sika Ery Seda is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology-University of Indonesia. She received an MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University in 1989 and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Her main research interests are the investigation of the role of women in a multicultural society such as Indonesia, and the politics of natural resources and development. She is currently the director of the Women and Election Departments at the Center for Electoral Reform.
Andrew Wilson is the President Director of BHP Billiton Indonesia.