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He is President of Asian Population Association and an economist-demographer with a multidisciplinary perspective. His regional research interests include Indonesia, Brunei, Southeast Asia, and Asia. He is Professor at Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Indonesia, Visiting Professor at Centre for Advanced Research Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and Adjunct Researcher at Demographic Institute,  Universitas Indonesia. His undergraduate degree is  in economics, specializing in population economics, from Universitas Indonesia, in 1975; master degree in socio-economic statistics, majoring in population statistics, from George Washington University, in 1978; and Ph. D degree in economics majoring in population economics from Duke University, in 1983. He was inaugurated as Professor in Population Economics at the Universitas Indonesia in 1995. He was   Senior Fellow at Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, in 1999-2000;  Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore in  2001-2014; and Associate at Singapore University of Social Science in 2018- 2019.