Indonesia Growth Pattern and Contemporary Policies

1. Compare Soeharto, SBY, and Jokowi economic growth strategy. Explain.

2. What is demographic bonus? Explain.
3. What are Jokowi economic growth strategies and policies to capitalize
Indonesia demographic bonus.? Explain.
4. What are the impacts of financial crisis 1997-1998 to Indonesian
Demographic Bonus? Explain.

Promoting Fair Competition

1. What are the problems of government focus to prevent collusive
agreements to industries while permitting cooperation between firms at
different positions in value chain? Explain.
2. There are companies that control strategic assets such as water,
electricity, railroads, ports, etc.
a. What period should government contract designed? For example,
project life 10 years. Should government create only 1 contract for
10 year or create 2 contracts for 5 year each. Explain.
b. Which incentive should government choose for themselves
concerning the contract above? Stronger incentive or weaker
incentive? Explain.
c. How should government let the companies choose price freely, or
force the price through rate of return regulation, price cap
regulation, or cost plus contract? Explain.

Rethinking Government Role

1. Indonesia government has embraced new modes of economic governance
that rely on public-private partnerships.
What is the optimal geographic scale for such institutional
arrangements? Local communities, entire province, or nationwide?
Explain.
Who among the many societal actors are recognized as legitimate
partners and invited to participate? Explain.
2. Indonesia seems to have a hard time pushing for efficient infrastructure
development.
Which public policy tools are most conducive to productive
interaction among the partners? Should the government rely on
exhortative measures to facilitate collaboration or should it be more
prescriptive in steering the process toward outcomes? Explain.
3. Should government cede economic governance power in managing
common pool resources, such as forest, rivers, etc., to multi stakeholder
governance? Explain.

Natural Disasters and Business Sustainability

1. There are two events: highly likely event and highly unlikely event. Can we
afford to develop strategic management that address highly unlikely
event? Can we afford not to? What are the implications? Explain.
2. Do natural disasters may help your company gain higher market shares
and higher profitability? Explain.
3. Which companies affected most by natural disasters? Small Size, Medium
Size, or Big Company? Explain.
4. Which companies should government help most? Small Size, Medium Size
Company, or Big Company? Explain.

Global Migration Implications to Economic Growth: Opportunity and

Threats
1. Should government treat voluntary migration and forced migration
differently? Explains.
2. Define the meaning of high and low quality immigrant.
5. Do we need only high quality immigrant as opposed to more balanced
immigrant that contain high quality and low quality immigrant? Explain.
What is the role of government to manage cultural diversity (including
ethnics, religions)? Should government have an active role or passive role?
Explain.
3. How to transform cultural diversity into inclusivity? Explain.
or
1. Should we nurture culture for romantic reasons or economic reasons?
Explain.
2. Do easterners better at understanding cross culture than westerners? Or
vice versa? Explain.
3. Whether government officials and legislators with a more balanced gender
composition can help reducing the negative effects of the cultural clash
within the scope of multiculturalism? Explain.
4. Whether government officials and legislators with a more balanced gender
composition can help increasing the positive effects of the cultural
diversity within the scope of multiculturalism? Explain.

Evaluating Indonesias Monetary and Fiscal Policy

1. There are different types of inflations such as demand pull inflation, cost
push inflation, and imported inflation. Explain the meaning of each types
of inflation.
2. Why central banker raising interest rates when there are cost push
inflation? As you know, raising interest rates will increase interest expense
that will push the cost higher. Explain.

3. Why central bankers have inflation target? Do inflation good? What is a

good inflation? Explain.
4. What are needed to ensure successful inflation targeting regime? Explain.
5. What are the implications of Indonesias labor remuneration formulas to
Bank Indonesia inflation targeting strategy? Explain.

Economic Malfunction or Business Cycle: An Analysis of Indonesia

Economy
1. Using Cobb Douglas formula, explain the main driver of Indonesia
Economic Growth. Explain.
2. Do Indonesia economic growth driver strategy sustainable or
unsustainable? Explain.
3. Do Jokowi-JK government actions follow rules or discretionary policies?
What are the implications to Indonesia economic growth and their relative
competitive position among countries? Explain.

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