Indonesia

The IIASA Council approved the membership application of the Republic of Indonesia in June 2012, making the Indonesian National Committee for IIASA the 19^th IIASA NMO.

Key Relationships and Collaborations

• School of Business and Management, Bandung Institute of Technology (SBM ITB) as an academic institution managing the network of community of systems analysts and modellers from various universities and research institutions in Indonesia.
• Republic of Indonesia Presidential Delivery Unit (UKP4), Office of the President: Indonesian membership in IIASA is a matter of Government policy, established and approved in the Office of the President.
• Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Science and Technology
• Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources
• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): a CGIAR Consortium Research Center located in Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR has extensive interactions with the IIASA Ecosystem Services and Management (ESM) Program.

Select Research Highlights

In recent years, IIASA researchers have visited and worked with Indonesian scientists and organizations, and produced analyses that are directly relevant to Indonesia.  A few of these activities are described here.   

Systems Analysis for Development

• At the invitation of the UKP4 Director, IIASA Director and CEO Pavel Kabat delivered a Keynote Presentation at the 2nd International Workshop on Systems Analysis and Modelling for Policy Development on 28 April 2012, as part of a series of workshop in Systems Modelling organized by the School of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung.

Forests, Biofuels, Land Use and Climate Change

• IIASA’s Ecosystem Services and Management (ESM) Program is collaborating with the UKP4, the International Energy Agency (IEA), andthe Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) to explore opportunities of BioEnergy in combination with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) for Indonesia. Two BECCS expert meetings have been organized by IIASA, IEA, and the Indonesian government.
• A November 2011 BECCS workshop at IIASA offered a wide range of perspectives on BECCS, and formulated a series of recommendations on research and assessment needs, related to both technical and policy issues. A September 2012 follow-up BECCS workshop in Jakarta is designed to further explore the role that CCS, bioenergy, and BECCS could play in Indonesia’s energy and climate policy.
• IIASA researchers have collaborated with CIFOR, using IIASA’s GLOBIOM model to explore sustainable production of bioenergy as an alternative fuel; developing improved methods of including land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) activities in accounts of greenhouse gas mitigation efforts, and providing guidance for accounting for avoided deforestation in global climate change agreements.
• IIASA’s Global Agro-Ecological Zone (GAEZ) model and database, developed and maintained in collaboration with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is a powerful tool for assessing agricultural resources and potential. Rapid developments in information technology have produced increasingly detailed and manifold global databases that allow users to evaluate options for more widespread adoption of sustainable land and water management practices in agricultural systems at risk.

Demographic Trends   

• IIASA’s World Population Program (POP)works with the Demographic Institute in Jakarta through the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis, which IIASA helped to found in 2000.In addition, participants in recent Asian MetaCentre studies and conferences have come from Gajda Mada University and BPS Statistics in Indonesia.
• Indonesia’s population trends were analyzed in the IIASA POP Program’s Asian Demographic and Human Capital Data Sheet in 2008 (see Figure).  These projections, recently expanded to differentiate by age, sex, and level of education, can provide crucial input to government policies from education to pensions. Current research will make those national forecasts even more useful, further breaking down the projections by employment and health status.
• POP researchers have examined Indonesian demographic trends in the broader Southeast Asian context, including studies of future ageing trends, past and future human capital, and accuracy of past population projections.
  
  

  Population Projection for Indonesia in 2050 by age, sex, and level of education.

  
  Disaster Recovery
  
• Following the devastating impact of the 2004 Tsunami on Banda Aceh in Indonesia, IIASA’s ESM program worked with two partners in Indonesia (Spatial Information and Mapping Centre of the Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstrucksi, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and the Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Centre in Syiah-Kuala University) to analyze and quantify the value that earth observation data brings to the relief/reconstruction effort. Their analyses found significant benefits from in-situ, airborne and space observations, in terms of cost and time savings in identifying priorities for relief and reconstruction in the days and weeks after a disaster.  However, achieving that value can be limited by lack of training and data gaps and uneven quality.
  

Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Emission Control

• IIASA’s Greenhouse Gas-Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model, developed by the (MAG) Program, enables searches for sets of measures that simultaneously meet environmental targets on air quality and greenhouse gas reductions at least costs. An analysis using GAINS to project the emissions of major air pollutants to 2035 for 25 regions, including Indonesia, demonstrates the synergies between climate change and air pollution control policies. The results were published in the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2011.

Capacity Building and Academic Training

• The EU-sponsored Forestry Masters Program offers an opportunity for graduate students to spend a 3-month period at IIASA to advance their research. Ms. Januarti Tjajadi, an Indonesian studying at BOKU in Vienna,spent 3 months at IIASA in 2008 working with IIASA’s GLOBIOM model to analyze the competition for land use between agriculture, bioenergy, and forestry, specifically on the palm oil sector in Indonesia..

Last edited: 08 January 2013