Community

This page highlights my recent and upcoming engagements with policy communities, broadly defined. Please email me to explore potential collaborations in related research areas.

This term (May-June 2026), I’m also teaching a graduate course on Public Sector Reform that includes elements of both theory and practice. I welcome (1) scholars working on relevant papers and (2) policy practitioners with direct reform experience who are willing to share their work with my students, either in person (if you’re in Jakarta) or virtually (if you’re based elsewhere). In the past, my courses have featured guest lectures by experts from the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and other institutions.

Upcoming

Deadline by May 31, 2026
I am organizing a panel on public investment, fiscal management, and financial governance in Southeast Asia for submission to the upcoming Annual Conference of the Asian Association for Public Administration at NTU, Singapore. If you have a working paper on relevant topics and are interested in presenting, let’s get in touch so we can discuss the possibility of submitting a panel proposal together.

July 8-10, 2026
Anyone in Singapore? I’ll be presenting preliminary findings from a project titled “Budgetary Politics in Malaysia and Indonesia” at the 6th SEASIA Biennial Conference at the School of Social Sciences, NTU. This article will appear as a book chapter in an upcoming international volume edited by Phil Joyce.

Past year

April 28-29, 2026
Together with colleagues at Monash Indonesia, I led a workshop for senior officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs as part of their national leadership training. This workshop examined disaster response and mitigation from multiple perspectives, and my session focused on the financial dimensions. Download my presentation slides here.

April 8-9, 2026
I visited several factories and recycling centers in Indonesia, including Nike, KMK, and RCI. The visits were organized by colleagues from Monash Australia as part of their circular economy project.

January 30, 2026
Judging panelist for an international business idea competition for high school students addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, such as climate change.

January 22, 2026
Co-chair (with Thomas Hilde) of the Monash–UMD joint workshop “Exploring the Interface Between Bottom-Up Sustainability and Top-Down Policy.” Read the news coverage here.

January 7, 2026
External examiner for a dissertation prospectus at the Department of Economics, Universitas Indonesia.

November 14, 2025
Speaker at the public dialogue “Suara Selatan Selatan: Ekonomi Restoratif sebagai Solusi,” organized by Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari, as part of the Jakarta International Literary Festival.

September 6, 2025
Speaker at the public discussion “Understanding and engaging with Indonesia’s crisis,” organized by the Indonesian Association at Cornell (IAC).

August 30, 2025
Speaker at the public discussion “Polemik Tunjangan Wakil Rakyat,” co-organized by PERMIAS and PERMIKA. Watch the recording here.