Bondan Sikoki

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of the 1998 economic and financial crisis in Indonesia on education of the next generation and found that on average, household spending on education declined, most dramatically among the poorest households, while there was a tendency to protect education spending in poor households with more older children.

TL;DR: Using longitudinal population-representative survey data collected in two provinces on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, changes in a broad array of indicators of well-being of adults are examined.

TL;DR: Characteristics of both the interviewers and the interview that predict attrition in later waves are described, pointing to possible strategies that may reduce levels of attrition and may also reduce the impact of attrition on the interpretation of behavioral models estimated with longitudinal data.

TL;DR: The tsunami produced posttraumatic stress reactions across a wide region of Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia, and public health will be enhanced by the provision of counseling services that reach not only people directly affected by the tsunami but also those living beyond the area of immediate impact.

TL;DR: The first wave (IFLS1) was administered in 1993 to individuals living in 7,224 households and the second wave was conducted in 1998 with 25% of the sample to measure the immediate impact of the economic and political crisis in Indonesia as mentioned in this paper.