Sudarno Sumarto is an economist and academic, currently an Honorary Senior Fellow at the SMERU Research Institute and formerly a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Development and at Stanford University's Shorenstein APARC. He has taught at leading Indonesian institutions, including Bogor Agricultural University and the University of Indonesia. Sumarto's research focuses on poverty, labor, and social protection, with over 60 publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Development Economics.

02/02/2026

• Introduction 1: Two and a Half Decades of the Indonesian Social Protection System 2: Reforming Regressive Fuel Subsidies 3: The Arts and Crafts of Program Targeting 4: Reforming Rice Transfer Policy, Feeding the Country 5: Spending More, Spending Better: Reforming Education in a Fragmented System 6: When Healthcare Is a Right: Taking the Right Steps 7: Localizing Power: A Reflection of Indonesia's Decentralization Project and Development at the Village Level 8: Weathering the Storm: Indonesian Social Policy amid the Covid-19 Pandemic 9: Redrawing the Poverty Line Lessons From Indonesia

Sudarno Sumarto is an economist and academic, currently an Honorary Senior Fellow at the SMERU Research Institute and formerly a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Development and at Stanford University's Shorenstein APARC. He has taught at leading Indonesian institutions, including Bogor Agricultural University and the University of Indonesia. Sumarto's research focuses on poverty, labor, and social protection, with over 60 publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Development Economics.

02/02/2026

• Introduction 1: Two and a Half Decades of the Indonesian Social Protection System 2: Reforming Regressive Fuel Subsidies 3: The Arts and Crafts of Program Targeting 4: Reforming Rice Transfer Policy, Feeding the Country 5: Spending More, Spending Better: Reforming Education in a Fragmented System 6: When Healthcare Is a Right: Taking the Right Steps 7: Localizing Power: A Reflection of Indonesia's Decentralization Project and Development at the Village Level 8: Weathering the Storm: Indonesian Social Policy amid the Covid-19 Pandemic 9: Redrawing the Poverty Line Lessons From Indonesia

Sudarno Sumarto is an economist and academic, currently an Honorary Senior Fellow at the SMERU Research Institute and formerly a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Development and at Stanford University's Shorenstein APARC. He has taught at leading Indonesian institutions, including Bogor Agricultural University and the University of Indonesia. Sumarto's research focuses on poverty, labor, and social protection, with over 60 publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Development Economics.

02/02/2026

• Introduction 1: Two and a Half Decades of the Indonesian Social Protection System 2: Reforming Regressive Fuel Subsidies 3: The Arts and Crafts of Program Targeting 4: Reforming Rice Transfer Policy, Feeding the Country 5: Spending More, Spending Better: Reforming Education in a Fragmented System 6: When Healthcare Is a Right: Taking the Right Steps 7: Localizing Power: A Reflection of Indonesia's Decentralization Project and Development at the Village Level 8: Weathering the Storm: Indonesian Social Policy amid the Covid-19 Pandemic 9: Redrawing the Poverty Line Lessons From Indonesia