TY - BOOK AU - Alatas,Vivi AU - Aswicahyono,Haryo AU - Cameron,Lisa AU - Effendi,Tadjuddin Noer AU - Hannigan,Lisa AU - Harahap,Nida P. AU - Hayes,Adrian C. AU - Hill,Hal AU - Kong,Sherry Tao AU - Manning,Chris AU - Marbun,Deswanto AU - Maxwell,John AU - Miranti,Riyana AU - Narjoko,Dionisius AU - Olivia,Susan AU - Perdana,Ari AU - Permani,Risti AU - Pritchett,Lant AU - Purnamasari,Ririn AU - Raya,Umbu Reku AU - Sparrow,Robert AU - Sumadi,Pungky AU - Sumarto,Sudarno AU - Suryadarma,Daniel AU - Suryahadi,Asep AU - Wai-Po,Matthew AU - Warr,Peter AU - Yulaswati,Vivi AU - Yumna,Athia TI - Employment, Living Standards and Poverty in Contemporary Indonesia SN - 9789814345125 U1 - 330.9598 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Singapore : PB - ISEAS Publishing, KW - Education KW - Indonesia KW - Congresses KW - Education--Indonesia--Congresses KW - Industrialization KW - Industrialization--Indonesia--Congresses KW - Poverty KW - Government policy KW - Poverty--Government policy--Indonesia--Congresses KW - Poverty--Indonesia--Congresses KW - Public health KW - Public health--Indonesia--Congresses KW - SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Poverty & Homelessness KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Figures --; Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Glossary --; 1 Employment, Living Standards and Poverty: Trends, Policies and Interactions --; Part 1. Economic Transformation and Trends in Poverty: National and International Experience --; 2 How Good Are Good Transitions for Growth and Poverty? Indonesia since Suharto, for Instance ? --; 3 Poverty, Food Prices and Economic Growth in Southeast Asian Perspective --; 4 Accelerating Poverty and Vulnerability Reduction: Trends, Opportunities and Constraints --; 5 Regional Patterns of Poverty: Why Do Some Provinces Perform Better than Others? --; Part 2. Employment and Migration --; 6 Indonesian Industrialisation: Jobless Growth? --; 7 Occupational Choice and Mobility among Migrants to Four Cities --; Part 3. Education and Health --; 8 The Quality of Education: International Standing and Attempts at Improvement --; 9 Educational Challenges with Special Reference to Islamic Schooling --; 10 What Is Ailing the Health System? Governance, National Policy and the Poor --; 11 Social Health Insurance: Towards Universal Coverage for the Poor? --; 12 Sanitation and Health: The Past, the Future and Working Out What Works --; Part 4. Connecting with the Poor: Government Policies and Programs --; 13 The Evolution of Poverty Alleviation Policies: Ideas, Issues and Actors --; 14 Reducing Poverty by Increasing Community and Female Participation --; 15 Targeting of the Poor and Vulnerable --; 16 Social Assistance: Understanding the Gaps --; Index; restricted access N2 - Understanding the nexus between employment, living standards and poverty is a major challenge in Indonesia. Trends in poverty are heavily dependent on labour market opportunities and social spending in education and health. The question is how to create opportunities and spend money wisely - a subject of intense debate in Indonesia. The government has brought a renewed focus to poverty reduction since the end of the Asian financial crisis, especially under the current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. This book shows how Indonesia is travelling with regard to employment, social policy and poverty. It identifies promising new directions for strategies to alleviate poverty, some of which are already showing results UR - https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814345132 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789814345132 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789814345132/original ER -