Knowledge, Politics and Policymaking in Indonesia (PDF)

hasworked for over 12 years on governance and governance reform, environmental policy reforms, development planning and programme management with multilateral and bilateral organisations, NGOs, governments and research institutions. She has an undergraduate degree in urban and regional planning from Bandung Institute of Technology, a Master's in Public Policy and Administration from the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands and a Ph.D. in Coastal and Marine Resources Management from Bogor Agricultural University.


Kharisma Nugroho was a Programme Lead at the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy: The Knowledge Sector Initiative from 2015 to 2017 when he managed the knowledge production and intermediary component, working with 16 key Indonesian policy research institutes to address the problems constraining effective knowledge-to-policy processes. He is now a Research Associate at the Indonesian Alliance for Policy Research. His professional background includes accounting and sociology, with a specialisation in research and evaluation of development programmes in Indonesia in the areas of health sector policy reform, public sector reform and disaster risk reduction. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Indonesia and is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. In 2016, he co-authored an article on the political economy of Indonesia's universal health coverage programme ("Indonesia's Road to Universal Health Coverage: A Political Journey"), published in the Oxford journal Health Policy and Planning. Through his research and advisory work, Kharisma has promoted and advocated for fair-minded international research collaborations between international and subnational research institutes in Indonesia.


Elisabeth Jackson is a Programme Lead at the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy: The Knowledge Sector Initiative. She has lived and worked for over seven years in Jakarta in various projects and programmes with international NGOs and bilateral donors managing development programmes in education, democratic governance and civil society capacity building. Most recently, she was responsible for overseeing the Knowledge Sector Initiative for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has worked in higher education and development for over 12 years and has conducted research and published in academic journals on a range of issues, including state accountability, student politics, civic education and democracy, Islamic education, private schooling, civil society development and approaches to policy reform in Indonesia. She has a Master's degree in Development Studies and a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies, both from the Australian National University.


Fred Carden holds a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal. He is the Principal at Using Evidence Inc., a research and evaluation consultancy firm that focuses on improving the use of evidence in policymaking. From 2013 to 2016 he was based in Jakarta with the Australia-Indonesia Partnership for Pro-Poor Policy: The Knowledge Sector Initiative. Prior to that, he was director of evaluation at the International Development Research Centre in Canada, where a primary focus of his work was the influence of research on public policy. Among other publications he is the author of Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research (Sage, 2009) and co-author of Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programs (IDRC, 2001) and Organizational Assessment: A Framework for Improving Performance (IDB & IDRC, 2002), and Local Knowledge Matters: Power, Context and Policy Making in Indonesia (Policy Press, 2018). He serves on the Board of the global Partnership for Economic Policy network.