Sebagai lembaga penelitian yang telah sejak 1971 aktif dalam perdebatan publik, baik secara nasional maupun internasional, dan seringkali menjadi sumber referensi bagi masyarakat dan pemangku kebijakan, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), khususnya melalui Disaster Management Research Unit (DMRU), mengompilasi beberapa tulisan CSIS Commentaries terkait Indonesia dan COVID-19 yang mengupas tuntas perkembangan upaya penanganan COVID-19 di Indonesia dari berbagai aspek. Dalam buku ini, terdapat sebelas aspek yang dianalisis dalam kaitannya dengan Indonesia dan COVID-19, di antaranya aspek hubungan internasional dan perbandingan politik, kebijakan sektor digital dan pendataan, pertahanan dan tata kelola keamanan, manajemen kebencanaan dan lingkungan, ekonomi dan ketenagakerjaan, politik, kebijakan publik dan kepemerintahan, hukum dan sejarah, keagamaan dan kebudayaan, perkotaan, serta aspek kelompok rentan dan inklusi sosial.
Fajar B. Hirawan is a Researcher at the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He has joined CSIS since November 2006. His research mainly focuses on how to improve the economy in the global world, including related to the issue of food security, international trade, creative/digital economy, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), rural-urban poverty, and any issues in development economics. He is active in several research networks nationally, regionally, and globally.
Since 2010, he has been active teaching in several universities in Indonesia, such as University of Indonesia, Prasetiya Mulya Business School, University of Multimedia Nusantara, and School of Government and Public Policy. As a Faculty Member at School of Government and Public Policy, he teaches several courses, such as Macroeconomics, Policies for Economic Development, and Indonesia and its Interconnected World. Besides research and teaching activities, he is also very active in public debate related to economic issues through the seminar, workshop, papers/articles, and media interviews.
Fajar received his Bachelor degree in Economics at Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia (2006) and Master in Development Studies at University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy (2009). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from School of Economics, University of Sydney, Australia (2017).