Clara Siagian
Nationality
Indonesia
Qualifications
Doctoral candidate from from the Australian National University (expected 2024)
Master of Public Policy from the Australian National University (2012)
Bachelor of Arts (Sarjana 1) in International Relations from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia (2009)
I’m a PhD candidate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and a Senior Researcher at Center on Child Protection and Wellbeing (PUSKAPA), Universitas Indonesia with a decade worth of experience in designing and conducting social research on topics such as childhood policy, poverty, civil registration, urban youth and children, eviction, and housing both in Indonesia and in Australia.
PhD programme
Supervisor(s) and panel members
Topic title
Topic description
My topic is broadly about the social and political lives of residents who were removed from informal settlements in Jakarta and were relocated to public rental walk-up flats (rusunawa). I’m interested to understand how eviction and relocation to rusunawa shape the ways residents view and engage with the state.
Publications
[academic publication selected] Siagian, C (forthcoming), Housing at an impasse: Living in a state of protracted transit in rental social housing in Jakarta, in E. Aspinall & A. Savirani (eds), Governing Urban Indonesia, 40th Indonesian Update, Australian National University.
Siagian, C (2024), Paternalistic State Care: The dynamic of COVID-19 pandemic governance in Jakarta’s rental social housing and the elusive possibility of the state care. Cities 150: 105031.
Siagian, C, Utomo, A, Muhammad, K, Cook, B (2023), Unravelled homes: forced evictions and home remaking in Jakarta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 47(3): 386-404).
Siagian, C. (2022, December 6). Housed but unhomed: For Jakarta’s evicted women, social housing is a mixed blessing [Online]. The Sociological Review Magazine.
Kusumaningrum, S., C, Siagian, and H, Beazley (2021). “Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Children and Young People’s Vulnerability and Wellbeing in Indonesia.” Children’s Geographies, 20(4), 437-447.
Kusumaningrum, S., A. Patunru, C. Siagian, and C. Bennouna (2021), A Child’s Growth is a Nation’s Growth: Children’s Wellbeing and Inequality in Indonesia, in R. Barichello, R. Schwindt, and A. Patunru (eds), Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality: Insights from Indonesia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press
Siagian, C., Habib, M, & Bennouna, C, Agastya, N.L.P., Arifiani, S.D., 2021, “Handbook on Child Participatory Research in Indonesia”, PUSKAPA and CPC Learning Network, Columbia University
Bessell, S, C, Siagian, and A, Bexley (2020). “Towards Child-Inclusive Concepts of Childhood Poverty: The Contribution and Potential of Research with Children.” Children and Youth Services Review 116 (September): 105118.
Siagian, C (2020). Book Review: Research handbook on child migration. Children’s Geographies, 18(6), 741-3.
Siagian, C., Wandasari, W., Sahputra, F, Kusumaningrum, S (2019) “Strategic yet Delicate: The Dilemma of Involving Health Workers in Facilitating Birth Registration in Indonesia.” BMC Health Services Research 19 (1): 889.
Siagian, C., Arifani, S, Amanda, P, Kusumaningrum, S (2019) “Supporting Children, Blaming Parents: Frontliners’ Perception of Childhood Adversity and Parenthood in Indonesia”, Social Sciences 8(2): 64 DOI: 10.3390/socsci8020064.
[Research reports selected] Siagian, C, Adhi, A, Medha, A, Fitriani, I, Liem, W, Amanda, P, Irdiana, N, Jati, H and Kusumaningrum, S. 2022. “Living and Thriving in Cities: Making Cities Work for Young People. Insights from Indonesia.” PUSKAPA, UNICEF, and Ministry of Home Affairs Indonesia
Kusumaningrum, S., Siagian, C., Sari, W. L., Adhi, A. A., Wandasari, W., Febrianto, R., Tieken, S., 2021. Situasi Anak-Anak dan Kaum Muda di Kota-Kota di Indonesia/The Situation of Children and Young People in Cities in Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia: PUSKAPA, UNICEF, dan BAPPENAS
Siagian, C, Arifiani, S.D., Bessell, S., & Przybyszewski, E., 2020. “Survey Respondents’ Experiences of Being Asked about Voice, Violence, and Other Potentially Sensitive Issues: Report of the Qualitative Follow-up Study to the Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) Survey in Indonesia.” Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University.
Bennouna C, Kusumaningrum S, Siagian C, et al. (2018) Social Accountability in Health in Indonesia: Lessons from Programs. Knowledge Brief. Washington, DC: World Bank (Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice).
Kusumaningrum S, Siagian C, Bennouna C, et al. (2018) Social Accountability in Health in Indonesia: An Overview of Legislation. Knowledge Brief. Washington, DC: World Bank (Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice).
[public outlet] Siagian, C., Habib, M., & Kusumaningrum, S. (2021, August 6). How to design appropriate methods for research involving children. The Conversation Indonesia.
Siagian, C, Adam, C, Sahputra, F, Kusumaningrum, S. (2021, May 21) Keroposnya perlindungan data kependudukan dan ketimpangan layanan public/The fragility of data protection and the inequality of access to public service. The Conversation Indonesia
Siagian, C. (2018, November 28). Playing the marriage card in Indonesia. New Mandala.
Siagian, C. (2018, March 29). Criminal code bill will leave Indonesian Migrants’ children in Malaysia in legal limbo. The Conversation Indonesia.
Nanwani, S, Siagian, C. (2017, February 12). Falling through the cracks: How Indonesia’s health insurance is failing the most vulnerable. Inside Indonesia.
Siagian, C. (2016, July 7). Saving street kids under Duterte’s Philippines. New Mandala.
Employment history
Research Assistant for Childhood Poverty Research (PI Prof. Sharon Bessell), an ARC Discovery Project, ANU.
Senior Researcher, Center on Child Protection and Wellbeing (PUSKAPA), University of Indonesia
Mailing address
Crawford School of Public Policy
ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
J.G. Crawford Building No. 132
Lennox Crossing
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
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