Aryo Radityo Sawung works at the Ministry of National Education as an assistant manager for Reading Culture Development, under the Directorate General of Nonformal and Informal Education. He previously studied social welfare science at University of Indonesia and wrote his thesis on children of the streets.
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Triwayudi was born in South Lampung, attended the Bandung Institute of Technology, and is an employee of the South Lampung National Agency for Development Planning (Bappeda) on development policy and strategy for water and environmental sanitation. He sees that water and environmental sanitation infrastructure are basic needs for people in poor and underdeveloped areas.
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Fitri Slagi studied at the West Java STPDN (School of Local Administration) and now works for the Department of Home Affairs in Human Resources. She says that there are many difficult issues in the decentralization of government activities: political, administrative, and fiscal. The bureaucracy needs to be effective, efficient, and transparent, and to respond to the public interest. Most of the problems are rooted in human resource needs.
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Irfan Prasetyo’s job at the national level in the Ministry of National Education is to coordinate and manage education programs for high school . He writes that there are many complex problems in education in Indonesia, both in terms of access and quality of education. Irfan studied economics at the Islamic University of Indonesia and then finance at Gajah Mada University. Because his background is not in education, he needs to learn about the nature of education, education policy and education finance.
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Ivan Rahmatullah is a medical doctor who is a faculty member at Airlangga University in East Java. He did volunteer work in the areas of AIDS, child nutrition, reproductive health awareness, basic health care for orphans, and reproductive care for disaster management; and research in the areas of malaria transmission, voluntary counseling and testing, and avian influenza. As a result, he concluded that it is necessary to integrate modifying behavior and health systems with an international health perspective.
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Ruth Wompere is a staff member of the Language Service Unit of the University of Papua. She has administered the Community Language Service as well as being a teaching assistant for English classes for university students. She was born in Jayapura, her father is a retired bank worker, and she has a younger brother and sister.
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Although Akim Dharmawan already has his master’s degree from Padjadjaran University and bachelor’s from University in Indonesia in Public Health, he wants to continue his studies to learn how to face the challenges in Indonesia of serious health problems such as such as maternal mortality, infant mortality, low life expectancy, malnourished children, and infectious diseases.
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Mashuri is a USAID sponsored master’s student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU)-world renowned Center for Peace and Justice. The program is designed for studies within the peacebuilding field: conflict transformation, restorative justice, trauma healing, community and international development, and organizational leadership. The curriculum is combined with practice-based work grounded in current realities. Its alumni include 63 Fulbright scholars from 20 countries.
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The Indonesian Attorney General’s Office wants to strengthen its performance in investigating and combating corruption and to develop qualified cadre in this field. Working with the USAID Justice Sector Reform Program, they selected Andre Abraham, a public prosecutor with experience in investigation of corruption and transnational crimes, to undertake PhD studies. The USAID Human and Institutional Development Program (HICD) is supporting his studies at the University of Indonesia Law Faculty. More…

The Indonesian National Development Planning Agency needs to coordinate policy planning to support financial sector reform. It needs to analyze the behavior of the financial sector, and support the improvement of the functioning of bank and nonbank institutions as sources of financing to the economy. Senior staff are needed with an in-depth understanding of the importance of the functioning of the financial sector in Indonesia and the current problems that need to be addressed.
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