By Elan Satriawan & Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)

The Program Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) stands as one of President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship policies under his Asta Cita vision for Indonesia Emas 2045.

By: Prof. Dr. R. Agus Sartono, M.B.A.
Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University
Deputy for Education and Religion, Coordinating Ministry for People’s Welfare/Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia 2010-2014

Providing free nutritious meals, as seen in MBG, is actually a good idea, learned from the experiences of developed countries.

By Muhammad Edhie Purnawan, S.E., M.A., Ph.D
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)

Amid increasingly stringent U.S.

By: Wisnu Setiadi Nugroho

Department of Economics, FEB UGM

Head of  Equitable Transformation for Alleviating Poverty and Inequality Working Group (EQUITAS)

As Indonesia progresses toward upper-middle-income status, one critical metric remains stuck in the past: our poverty line.

West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi plans to make vasectomy a requirement for receiving social assistance (bansos).

By: Muhammad Edhie Purnawan (Department of Economics, FEB UGM)

Prolog
Trump and Powell have been friends in the past.

By: Muhammad Edhie Purnawan, Ph.D. Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Gadjah Mada University

Prologue
It is on a stage—where Donald Trump is standing tall—with his usual style of speech: enthusiastic and confident, holding a big hammer that reads “Reciprocal Tariffs,” ready to hit any country that does not agree with his vision.

On April 8, 2025, at an economic workshop in Jakarta, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati looked at Trump’s stage with pensive eyes.

Since the end of 2019, the world community has been surprised by the presence of the Covid-19 virus which continues until now and has become one of the largest pandemics in the history of mankind.

Nowadays, the world is facing various socio-economic problems that are increasingly complex.

Research on anthropomorphism in the business world was conducted by Lecturer of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (FEB UGM) Widya Paramita, Ph.D.