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Managing Productivity in the Infrastructure Sector: A Case Study from Indonesia
Authors: Knight Eric R. W. , Meade James D. 
Published: March 2018

This paper considers the nature of assessing productivity and effectiveness in infrastructure investment in the context of governments’ increasing investment in new infrastructure. Taking the case of energy infrastructure investment within Indonesia, this paper makes three contributions: (i) develops a model for assessing infrastructure productivity based on landscape, regime and niche-level changes, (ii) suggests the interconnection between these levels based on sequencing multi-level changes over time, and (iii) shows the role of supply and demand side initiatives in enabling new infrastructure investment is evaluated. AbstrakArtikel ini mempertimbangkan sifat dari penilaian produktivitas dan efektivitas pada investasi infrastruktur dalam rangka peningkatan investasi pemerintah pada infrastruktur baru. Dengan menggunakan kasus investasi infrastruktur energi di Indonesia, artikel ini menghasilkan tiga hal: (i) nembangun model untuk menilai produktivitas infrastruktur berdasarkan perubahan dari lanskap, rezim, dan perubahan di level yang tepat, (ii) menunjukkan interkoneksi antar level-level tersebut berdasarkan perubahan multi-level yang berurutan dari waktu ke waktu, dan (iii) menunjukkan peran dari inisiatif sisi penawaran dan permintaan yang memungkinkan investasi infrastruktur baru untuk dievaluasi.Kata kunci: Infrastruktur; Investasi; Produktivitas; Kerangka Perspektif Multi-Level; InovasiJEL classifications: O25; O33; O38
Determination of Competition Conventional Bank in Banking Industry in Indonesia
Authors: Qori’ah Ciplis Gema , Ridwan G. Mochammad , Wardhono Adhitya , Nurjannah Ika 
Published: March 2018

The aim of this study is to determine the level of concentration and competition behavior of conventional commercial banks in the national banking industry. This study focuses on descriptive analysis and quantitative analysis using panel data regression for 9 conventional commercial banks during 2003–2014. Results of eclectic analysis are supposed that behavior of banks is less competitive due to high levels of concentration in the banking industry. While the results of panel data regression show that the variables of bank interest expense, operating expense, other operating incomes and variable of loanable funds significantly affect the income of conventional banks.AbstrakTujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tingkat konsentrasi dan perilaku persaingan bank umum konvensional yang terdapat di industri perbankan nasional. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada analisis deskriptif dan analisis kuantitatif dengan menggunakan regresi data panel dengan sampel 9 bank umum konvensional selama 2003–2014. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa perilaku bank kurang kompetitif karena tingkat konsentrasi yang tinggi di industri perbankan. Sedangkan hasil menunjukkan regresi data panel bahwa variabel beban bunga bank, beban operasional, pendapatan operasional lainnya, dan dana pinjaman signifikan berpengaruh pada pendapatan bank konvensional. Kata kunci: Kompetisi Bank; Regresi Data Panel; Industri PerbankanJEL classifications: B21; C23; L80
The Impact of Lagging-Region Status on District Poverty in Indonesia
Authors: Nasrudin Rus’an 
Published: March 2018

Reducing subnational imbalances of development progress is unquestionable policy for heterogeneous Indonesia. This paper examines the impact of policy that assigns a lagging-region status namely status daerah tertinggal (DT) on poverty rate and poverty gap among districts in Indonesia in the two period of SBY presidency. The panel data fixed effect combined with propensity score matching is used to tackle the selection bias due to the nature of the policy, unobserved heterogeneity and omitted variable bias. The results show that the lagging-region status that was aimed to mainstream central and district’s budget toward lagging regions statistically significant reduces poverty rate and poverty gap in the period. The DT status, on average is associated with 0.75 percentage point of reduction in the poverty rate and 7% reduction in the poverty gap index. AbstrakMenurunkan ketimpangan antar-daerah adalah sebuah agenda kebijakan yang niscaya untuk Indonesia yang majemuk dalam kemajuan ekonomi. Artikel ini berusaha mengukur dampak dari sebuah kebijakan penetapan daerah tertinggal terhadap dua ukuran kemiskinan, yaitu tingkat kemiskinan dan kedalaman kemiskinan pada dua periode masa jabatan Presiden SBY. Metode yang dipergunakan adalah panel data fixed-effect dikombinasikan dengan propensity score matching untuk mengatasi permasalah endogen pada variabel utama yaitu bias dalam seleksi terhadap kebijakan, keragaman daerah yang tidak dapat diukur, dan potensi bias karena ketiadaan variabel-variabel yang berpengaruh terhadap dua ukuran kemiskinan. Hasil pendugaan regresi tersebut menunjukkan bahwa penetapan daerah tertinggal yang ditujukan untuk mengarusutamakan dana pembangunan secara statistik signifikan dan menyebabkan penurunan tingkat kemiskinan dan kedalaman kemiskinan di masa tersebut. Daerah tertinggal secara rata-rata memiliki tingkat kemiskinan lebih rendah sebesar 0.75 (persentase) dan memiliki indeks kedalaman kemiskinan 7% lebih rendah.Kata kunci: Daerah Tertinggal; Kemiskinan; IndonesiaJEL classifications: I32, P48
Financial Integration in ASEAN-5
Authors: Gabriella Laura Grace , Suryanarayana Revathy , Esady Vania 
Published: March 2018

The financial integration in South East Asia has varied over time. This paper focuses on three periods: before, during, and after the global financial crisis in 2008. This paper finds that ASEAN-5 countries have indeed taken a step towards financial integration. While we do not observe any (cointegrating) long-run relationships between the ASEAN-5 countries, we find that there has been a significant increase in the volatility spillovers between them. This is particularly true in the recovery period following the global financial crisis. AbstrakIntegrasi keuangan di Asia Tenggara telah mengalami perubahan dari waktu ke waktu. Penelitian ini berfokus pada tiga periode waktu, yaitu pada sebelum, saat, dan setelah Krisis Keuangan Global tahun 2008. Hasil penelitian ini menemukan bahwa negara ASEAN-5 memiliki kecenderungan kearah integrasi keuangan. Walaupun kami belum melihat adanya hubungan jangka panjang dari kelima negara tersebut, namun kami menemukan adanya peningkatan signifikan dari volatility spillover diantara mereka. Hal ini khususnya benar terjadi sepanjang periode pemulihan dari Krisis Keuangan Global.Kata kunci: Integrasi Keuangan; Krisis Keuangan Global; ASEAN; GARCHJEL classifications: F21; F33
Is Inflation Target Announced by Bank Indonesia the Most Accurate Inflation Forecast?
Authors: Rachman Faisal 
Published: March 2018

This article investigates whether following Bank Indonesia’s explicit inflation targets (forward-looking) is a more accurate method of predicting inflation rate in Indonesia than forecast methods utilizing past information of macroeconomic data (backward-looking). The analysis is conducted by performing naive, univariate, and multivariate time-series models with an out-of-sample forecast evaluation period of January 2014–December 2016. It is found that the backward-looking approach outperforms the forward-looking approach at all forecast horizons, indicating that Bank Indonesia still does not succeed to anchor inflation expectation towards the desired level.AbstrakArtikel ini mencoba untuk meneliti apakah mengikuti target inflasi yang dikeluarkan oleh Bank Indonesia (forward-looking) adalah metode yang lebih akurat untuk memprediksi tingkat inflasi suatu periode tertentu di Indonesia ketimbang metode peramalan inflasi dengan menggunakan data informasi makroekonomi lampau (backward-looking). Analisa dilakukan dengan membandingkan model runtun waktu naif, satu peubah, dan peubah ganda dengan periode Januari 2014–Desember 2016 digunakan sebagai periode evaluasi sampel peramalan. Tulisan ini menyimpulkan bahwa performa peramalan metode backward-looking lebih unggul dari pada metode forward-looking untuk setiap jangka waktu peramalan yang mengindikasikan bahwa Bank Indonesia masih belum berhasil dalam mengendalikan ekspektasi publik terhadap inflasi ketingkat yang diinginkan.Kata kunci: Inflasi; Forward-Looking; Backward-Looking; ARMA; VARJEL classifications: C22; C32; E31; E37; E52
Indebtedness and Subjective Financial Wellbeing of Households in Indonesia
Authors: Handayani Dwini , Salamah Ummu , Yusacc Restananda Nabilla 
Published: March 2018

Indebtedness is an element to foresee household financial wellbeing. This vulnerability could be determined objectively and subjectively. Objective financial vulnerability is the objective ability to make ends meet that is analyzed using household income and characteristics. Measurement in subjective welbeing is determined by household perceptions in their ability to make ends meet. Household behavior with different perceptions will behave differently. Indebtedness is analyzed using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 5 with the Ordinary Least Square method. The inferential shows that both objective and subjective financial wellbeing influence household indebtedness. AbstrakKedalaman hutang merupakan elemen untuk mengetahui kesejahteraan finansial rumah tangga. Kerentanan ini dapat dilihat secara objektif maupun subjektif. Kerentanan finansial objektif adalah kemampuan objektif dalam memenuhi kebutuhan sehari-hari menggunakan pendapatan rumah tangga dan karakteristiknya. Ukuran dari kesejahteraan subjektif ditentukan oleh persepsi rumah tangga dalam kemampuannya untuk memenuhi kebutuhan sehari-hari. Rumah tangga dengan persepsi berbeda akan memiliki perilaku yang berbeda pula. Kedalaman rumah tangga dianalisis menggunakan Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 5 dengan metode Ordinary Least Square. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa, baik kesejahteraan rumah tangga objektif maupun kesejahteraan rumah tangga subjektif memengaruhi kedalaman hutang rumah tangga.Kata kunci: Perilaku Rumah Tangga; Ekonomi Keluarga; Kedalaman Rumah Tangga; Kesejahteraan SubjektifJEL classifications: D10; D31
Local Government Forestry Expenditure and Forest Land Cover: A Preliminary Lesson from Decentralized Indonesia
Authors: Hidayati Firda , Vidyattama Yogi , Gordon Cameron 
Published: March 2018

Even though government of Indonesia invests billions of rupiah to tackle deforestation, its effectiveness has been questionable. This study analyses changes in rates of forest cover in Indonesia and their association with forestry expenditures (FE) spent by the provincial governments. Based on 2007 to 2010 data, linear multiple regression results indicate that FE is not enough to tackle the negative change in forest land cover that could represent deforestation. Moreover, it was found that FE have negative association with forest land cover and therefore, can be associated to deforestation. This negative association remains when other factors that affect forest land cover such as wood extraction, agriculture outcome, forestry outcome, population growth and population density and initial environmental conditions have been controlled.AbstrakWalaupun pemerintah Indonesia telah menginvestasikan trilyunan rupiah untuk mengurangi deforestasi, akan tetapi efektifitasnya dipertanyakan. Penelitian ini menganalisa tingkat perubahan luasan tutupan hutan di Indonesia and asosiasinya dengan Pengeluaran Sektor Kehutanan (PSK) yang dibelanjakan oleh pemerintah provinsi. Berdasar data tahun 2007 sampai 2010, hasil regresi multiple linier mengindikasikan bahwa PSK tidak cukup untuk mengurangi akibat negatif dalam perubahan hutan dan lahan yang dapat mngakibatkan deforestasi. Lebih lanjut, ditemukan bahwa PSK berhubungan erat pengurangan luasan hutan, yang dapat dikaitkan dengan deforestasi. Asososiasi yang negatif ini tetap terjadi walaupun faktor lain yang memengaruhi tutupan hutan seperti penebangan kayu, hasil pertanian, hasil kehutanan, pertumbuhan populasi dan kepadatan populasi dan kondisi awal lingkungan telah dikontrol.Kata kunci: Deforestasi, Hutan Tropis; Populasi Penduduk; Tutupan Hutan; Pengeluaran untuk Reboisasi HutanJEL classifications: E62; Q58; H76
Accelerating Financial Inclusion through Non-cash Assistance: Exploring Factor Affecting Beneficiaries Perception
Authors: Djamaluddin Sartika 
Published: March 2018

Distribution of social assistance through a non-cash system is a new government breakthrough to increase transfer effectiveness and promote financial inclusion. After the pilot project in 2014, the recent study found that there is a number of beneficiaries who feel the non-cash system is difficult. Therefore they use non-cash facilities to get the transfer only and do not want to use for other financial services. This fact could become an obstacle to financial inclusion. This study aims to investigate what factors influence beneficiaries perception to use non-cash system. We conducted a survey of 139 non-cash beneficiaries in Kabupaten Cirebon, West Java and Kabupaten Pasuruan, East Java. The results showed that accessibility such as queue time, travel time and transportation cost had a significant effect on perception of non-cash system. Perceptions also vary according to beneficiary characteristics. AbstrakDistribusi bantuan sosial melalui sistem non-tunai merupakan terobosan baru yang dilakukan pemerintah untuk meningkatkan efektivitas bantuan dan mempromosikan inklusi keuangan. Penelitian terbaru menyatakan bahwa, pada uji coba sistem non-tunai di tahun 2014, sejumlah penerima bantuan merasa kesulitan mencairkan bantuan dengan sistem tersebut. Mereka hanya menggunakan fasilitas non-tunai untuk mencairkan bantuan saja dan tidak ingin menggunakan sistem tersebut untuk layanan keuangan lainnya. Fakta tersebut dapat menjadi hambatan tercapainya inklusif keuangan. Studi ini bertujuan menyelidiki faktor-faktor apa saja yang memengaruhi persepsi penerima bantuan untuk menggunakan sistem non-tunai. Kami melakukan survei pada 139 penerima bantuan non-tunai di Kabupaten Cirebon, Jawa Barat dan Kabupaten Pasuruan, Jawa Timur. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa aksesibilitas seperti waktu antrian, waktu perjalanan dan biaya transportasi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap persepsi sistem non-tunai. Persepsi juga bervariasi menurut karakteristik penerima bantuan.Kata kunci: Bantuan Non-tunai; Transfer; Inklusi Keuangan; Persepsi; Penerima BantuanJEL classifications: H31; H55
Export Stimuli, Export Stages and Internationalization Pathways: The Case of Indonesian SMEs
Authors: Revindo Mohamad Dian , Gan Christopher 
Published: March 2018

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries are still constrained to seize the opportunity of trade liberalization as compared to their large counterparts. It has been argued that effective efforts to foster SME export require clear understanding of the factors that stimulate them to export. This study investigates the export stimuli of 385 Indonesian SMEs at different export stages (pre-exporting and exporting) and different internationalization pathways (domestically established exporter and born-global SMEs). Three types of export stimuli are consistently identified as the most important in all sub-samples: the presence of foreign buyers, the confidence in the products and the aspiration to find alternative markets. By contrast, two types of export stimuli are consistently found as the least important in all sub-samples: government support and Indonesian diaspora communities. The academic and policy implications of the findings are discussed. AbstrakKontribusi Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (UKM) terhadap ekspor di negara berkembang masih sangat terbatas. Hasil studi sebelumnya menunjukkan bahwa upaya meningkatkan ekspor UKM memerlukan pemahaman akan faktor-faktor yang mendorong ekspor (pemicu ekspor). Studi ini meneliti pemicu ekspor pada 385 UKM di Indonesia, meliputi UKM pada tahapan pra-ekspor dan eksportir serta meliputi UKM dengan jalur internasionalisasi yang berbeda. Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat tiga jenis pemicu utama ekspor: kontak dari calon pembeli luar negeri, rasa percaya diri atas produk dan keinginan untuk memperluas pasar. Sebaliknya, dukungan pemerintah dan komunitas diaspora Indonesia belum menjadi pemicu utama ekspor. Temuan ini memiliki implikasi bagi diskursus akademis dan pengambil kebijakan di bidang pengembangan UKM.Kata kunci: Pemicu Ekspor; Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (UKM); Tahapan Ekspor; Jalur Internasionalisasi; Perusahaan Born-Global; IndonesiaJEL classifications: F23; L25; M13; M16; O17
Linking influenza epidemic onsets to covariates at different scales using a dynamical model
Authors: Roussel Marion , Pontier Dominique , Cohen Jean-Marie , Lina Bruno , Fouchet David 
Published: March 2018

Background
Evaluating the factors favoring the onset of influenza epidemics is a critical public health issue for surveillance, prevention and control. While past outbreaks provide important insights for understanding epidemic onsets, their statistical analysis is challenging since the impact of a factor can be viewed at different scales. Indeed, the same factor can explain why epidemics are more likely to begin (i) during particular weeks of the year (global scale); (ii) earlier in particular regions (spatial scale) or years (annual scale) than others and (iii) earlier in some years than others within a region (spatiotemporal scale).

Methods
Here, we present a statistical approach based on dynamical modeling of infectious diseases to study epidemic onsets. We propose a method to disentangle the role of covariates at different scales and use a permutation procedure to assess their significance. Epidemic data gathered from 18 French regions over six epidemic years were provided by the Regional Influenza Surveillance Group (GROG) sentinel network.

Results
Our results failed to highlight a significant impact of mobility flows on epidemic onset dates. Absolute humidity had a significant impact, but only at the spatial scale. No link between demographic covariates and influenza epidemic onset dates could be established.

Discussion
Dynamical modeling presents an interesting basis to analyze spatiotemporal variations in the outcome of epidemic onsets and how they are related to various types of covariates. The use of these models is quite complex however, due to their mathematical complexity. Furthermore, because they attempt to integrate migration processes of the virus, such models have to be much more explicit than pure statistical approaches. We discuss the relation of this approach to survival analysis, which present significant differences but may constitute an interesting alternative for non-methodologists.
Validation and application of the Chinese version of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (C-PSQ) in nursing students
Authors: Luo Yi , Gong Boxiong , Meng Runtang , Cao Xiaoping , Tang Shuang , Fang Hongzhi , Zhao Xing , Liu Bing 
Published: March 2018

ObjectiveTo translate the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) into Chinese, validate its reliability and validity in nursing students and investigate the perceived stress level of nursing students.MethodForward- and back-translation combined with expert assessment and cross-cultural adaptations were used to construct the Chinese version of the PSQ (C-PSQ). This research adopted a stratified sampling method among 1,519 nursing students in 30 classes of Ningbo College of Health Sciences to assess the reliability and validity of the C-PSQ. Among them, we used the Recent C-PSQ (only the last month).ResultsThe C-PSQ retained all 30 items of the original scale. Principal component analysis extracted five factors that explained 52.136% of the total variance. The S-CVI/Ave was 0.913. Concurrent validity was 0.525 and 0.567 for anxiety and depression respectively. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis were as follows: χ2/df= 4.376, RMR = 0.023, GFI = 0.921, AGFI = 0.907, CFI = 0.916, RMSEA = 0.048, PNFI = 0.832, PGFI = 0.782, CN = 342 and AIC/CAIC = 0.809. The scale’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.922, and Cronbach’s α of each dimension was 0.899 (worries/tension), 0.821 (joy), 0.688 (overload), 0.703 (conflict), 0.523 (self-realization). The correlation coefficient between the first and second test, the first and third test and the second and third test was 0.725, 0.787 and 0.731, respectively. Mean values and distribution of overall PSQ index in nursing students was 0.399 ± 0.138. Different demographic factors were significantly associated with the perceived stress of nursing students.ConclusionThe C-PSQ has an appropriate reliability and validity, which means that the scale can be used as a universal tool for psychosomatic studies. The perceived stress of nursing students was relatively high. Further studies are needed.
Implementation of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State in Pediatric Rheumatology Care: The Role of the Visual Analog Scale
Authors: Ogbu Ekemini A. , Sagcal‐Gironella Anna Carmela P. , Eberhard B. Anne , Huggins Jennifer M. , Klein‐Gitelman Marisa S. , Onel Karen , Chen Chen , Huang Bin , Brunner Hermine I. 
Published: October 2024

ObjectiveWe compared the measurement properties of a traditional physician global assessment of disease activity (PhGA) 10‐cm visual analog scale (PhGA0–10) with that of the three‐point numeric scale (PhGA0–3) in childhood‐onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) as part of the childhood Lupus Low Disease Activity State (cLLDAS).MethodsWe used a secondary data analysis from a convenience sample of 100 patients with cSLE followed every three months for up to seven visits. Ratings of PhGA0–10, PhGA0–3, parent assessment of patient well‐being (ParGA) (range: 0= very poorly, 10 = very well), disease activity as measured by the SLE disease activity index 2000 (SLEDAI‐2k), Safety of Estrogens in Lupus Erythematosus National Assessment (SELENA) SLEDAI, and the British Isles International Lupus Activity Group index (BILAG; A = 9, B = 3, C = 1, D/E = 0) were compared. After linear transformation of PhGA0–10 to a 0 to 3 range (tPhGA0–10), the frequency of PhGA0–3 ≤1 was assessed to estimate the impact of scale type on the scoring of the cLLDAS.ResultsIn 600 visits, the median (range) scores of PhGA0–10, PhGA0–3, SLEDAI‐2k, SELENA‐SLEDAI, and BILAG were 2 (0–10), 1(0–3), 4 (0–28), 4 (0–32), and 2 (0–28), respectively. PhGA0–10 and PhGA0–3 ratings were strong to moderately correlated with (r = 0.73; P < 0.0001) and with more variability for PhGA0–3 ≥2. SELENA‐SLEDAI and SLEDAI‐2k scores were moderately correlated with PhGA0–10 (r = 0.56/0.54; P < 0.0001). ParGA values were weakly correlated with all other measures considered (all r = −0.19 to −0.34). There were 490 of 600 visits with PhGA0−3 ≤1 and 497 of 600 visits with tPhGA0−10 ≤1 (κ (SE) =0.59 (0.04), McNemar P = 0.4).ConclusionPhGA0–3 and PhGA0–10 have comparable measurement properties and yield almost identical cLLDAS rates when used in cSLE.