Anwar Nasution graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia, in 1968. He obtained a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 1973, and a PhD in Economics from Tufts University in 1982. Anwar was a member of the International Policy Advisory Group (Shadow G-20) in 2013, under the Chairmanship of Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1988-2001) and the Sasakawa Distinguished Professor for the Chair in Development Economics at UNU/WIDER Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He was consultant to UN-ESCAP, UN-ECLAC, US-AID, ADB, the World Bank, IMF and MITI of Japan. He was a visiting research fellow at NBER in Cambridge, MA, USA, IDE in Tokyo, the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra and Kyoto University.
Macroeconomic Policies in Indonesia fills a tremendous gap in the literature of Indonesian studies. Although much has been written about Indonesia's economic miracle during the three decades of President Suharto's New Order, little has been written about macroeconomic policies in post-Suharto democratic, decentralized Indonesia. This book provides an insightful overview of monetary and fiscal policies in Indonesia since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, as well as a perceptive examination of Indonesia's financial and capital markets policies in this reformasi era. Macroeconomic Policies in Indonesia is an invaluable book for scholars of Indonesia's economic policies since the fall of Suharto. - Jay K. Rosengard, Faculty Chair, Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program