Designing National Freight Maritime Network in Indonesia: A Supporting Study For Maritime Highway Policy (Kebijakan Tol Laut) in Some Future Scenarios

Indonesian new government (under new President from 2014 election) issues ‘Maritime-highway’ policy by developing 24 strategic ports to form mainline of national maritime transportation network (Indonesian Ministry of Development Planning, 2015). This policy aims to reduce transportation cost as well as economy (price) disparities between west...

Natural Gas Infrastructure in Indonesia: Modelling options from domestic supply and export

Development of Biofuel Technology in Indonesia

Indonesia has appeared to be an oil dependent society in the last four decades. However, Indonesia experienced a status change from oil net exporter to net importer in 2004. These factors created awareness in Indonesia to develop renewable energy sources. Biofuel is one of the most potential renewable resources in the country. The development of...

SaaS Adoption Factors among SMEs in Indonesian Manufacturing Industry

Benefits of cloud computing to Small Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) seem obvious: financial savings (e.g. infrastructure savings, maintenance savings, etc.) and resource management advantage (e.g. skilled IT labor and equipment, resource flexibility, etc.). Software as a Service (SaaS) is one of cloud service model that has been acknowledged as...

Water Governance and Policy Networks in Indonesia: The challenges of a decade of water sector reformation

In this research an attempt was made to map the Indonesian water policy network through Social Network Analysis (SNA). Furthermore, the role of the distribution of information and knowledge in this (policy) network with respect to its’ capacity to perform well has been investigated. This research has shown that there are there are some...

Evaluating Teachers' Quality Improvement Policy in Indonesia: To meet the UNESCO-EFA criteria

Indonesia as one of the state members of UNESCO committed to achieve main goal of Education for All (EFA) UNESCO which is to improve education quality in the world. The education quality is inseparable from the teacher quality. Therefore the UNESCO and Indonesia put high concern to improve the teacher quality. Since Indonesian Government put...

Stakeholders' Perspectives on Carbon Capture and Storage in Indonesia

Several potential and challenges on the technical and non-technical aspects of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Indonesia had been investigated by Indonesia CCS Study Working Group (CCS study group) in 2009. Yet, public acceptance on CCS is still less addressed in the CCS study group’s report and very little is known about the perspectives of...