Aris Ananta
Universitas Indonesia
arisananta@gmail.com
Aris Ananta has been Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia since 1995 and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Advanced Research, Universiti Brunei Darussalam since 2020. He previously served as Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore (1999–2000), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2001–2014), and Associate Faculty at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (2018–2020). He was the President of Asian Population Association in 2019-2021.
An economist-demographer with a multidisciplinary approach, his research covers ageing, population mobility, family, welfare, and population projection. While Indonesia remains his core focus with interest in Southeast Asia and Asia, he has recently expanded his work to Brunei. He currently teaches Microeconomics in the Master’s Programme in Population and Labour Economics and Islamic Development Economics in the undergraduate programme in Islamic Economics at Universitas Indonesia.
Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Aris Ananta, and Chang-Yau Hoon]. “Quantifying Disability Using Washington Group Questionnaire: Prevalence, Trends and Patterns by Age and Sex in Indonesia”. Journal of Population Research, 2025.
Aris Ananta, Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato Musa, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, and Chang-Yau Hoon. “Identifying a Welfare Regime and Its Prospect in Hydrocarbon-Dependent Islamic Brunei Darussalam”, Contemporary Southeast Asia, 2024
Arifin, Evi Nurvidya, Aris Ananta, Siti Fatimahwati, and Chang-Yau Hoon. “A Pioneering Study on Measuring Poverty in the Oil-rich State of Brunei Darussalam”, Asian Population Studies, 2024
Aris Ananta and Evi Nurvidya Arifin. “Fully Funded Defined Contribution Pension System: Role in Old-age Financial Adequacy using Illustration from Indonesia”, a book chapter in Handbook of Aging, Health, and Public Policy. Edited by S. Rajan. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2023
Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Ari Purbowati, and Paul Carnegie. “Does diversity matter for development? New evidence of ethnic diversity’s mediation between internal migration and economic growth across Indonesia’s regions”, Journal of Population Research, 2023
President, Asian Population Association