Annual Report Book 2021

Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia (ARC UI) is an inter-disciplinary research centre that aims to strengthen social resilience, be it global, regional, national, or local, through comparative analysis developed from collaborative research excellence.

The organization was established with a clear purpose because of the challenges posed by the pandemic to society. In 2020, it is agreed that Indonesia was in dire need of an inter-disciplinary research centre able to think comparatively and respond to current as well upcoming crises in ways that are grounded in and informed by rigorous academic work. A mere six months later, ARC UI was formed by the university.

Established in July 2020, ARC UI carried out in its first year an 11-country study on the mobilisation of social sciences during the pandemic in Southeast Asia, supported by the Global Development Network (GDN) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Through this collaboration, we were able to produce a series of responsive research-based popular articles, reports, and online engagements with regional policy makers, science communities and university leaders in the Southeast Asian and Asia Pacific region. Also in 2021, ARC UI kicked off its first multi-year study about Asian state responses to the pandemic (2021 to 2024). It was the first study in the social sciences and humanities to be funded by the Indonesian Education Endowment Fund (LPDP) through the RISPRO mandatory scheme.

This annual report tells the journey of ARC UI’s first year in 2021.

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