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.