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• Rasita E. Purba is currently a Phd student at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research project is about Indonesia, investigating the impact of decentralisation on education policies at district level. She graduated from Gadjah Mada Univ...More

  Rasita E. Purba is currently a Phd student at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research project is about Indonesia, investigating the impact of decentralisation on education policies at district level. She graduated from Gadjah Mada University and the University of Western Australia. Her professional experience in managing development project spans over 10 years with ACCESS-AusAID and Plan International. ACCESS is an AusAID project in promoting good governance by strengthening civil society organizations and promoting state-public engagement through participatory approach; and Plan International is a non-profit organization, deals with complex issues of poverty, with emphasis on disadvantaged children. Her main interest is public policy, in particular such policies that promote the best interest of the poor and promoting gender perspective. Her papers have been presented at several conferences, for instance the Indonesian Council Open Conference (Canberra 2003), Asian Studies Association of Australia (Canberra 2004 and Adelaide 2010), and Global Social Work (Adelaide 2004). Less

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