My name is Krisna, some call me Imed. I am an advisor at the Indonesian National Economic Council. My research is about trade and investment policy and how it affects Indonesian firms. I use some structured equation such as GTAP model, but also do some empirics like gravity models.
I lecture at Universitas Indonesia. Additionally, I assume a senior fellow position at Center for Indonesian Policy Studies.
I contributed to several projects with Bank Indonesia, Bappenas, ADB, Prospera, and ERIA, among others. Occasional oped writer, typically at Kompas, Jakarta Post and East Asia Forum. Please see CV or contact me for more information.
A Policy Making Talks session for contestants of the Indonesia Economic Outlook 2027 competition. I share the four-step Regulatory Impact Assessment frame I have used since my CIPS days — problem definition, policy targets, policy assessment, alternatives — plus one step I only learned after working inside government: political and institutional analysis.
An in-house briefing on where Indonesia’s economy stands in mid-2026: growth at 5.61% but narrowly carried, a trade surplus thinning fast, inflation driven by supply rather than demand, and an interest bill that is now the binding fiscal constraint.
Plenary talk on global uncertainty: rising geopolitical risk, the return of industrial policy, trade fragmenting into blocs — and what Indonesia and Australia can build together.
Local content requirements (TKDN) in KRL procurement are often treated as a free industrial policy. The bill is actually paid by KRL commuters, in the form of too few trains and …
On 23 March 2026, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effectively banned foreign-made consumer routers from the American market. The ban targets Chinese manufacturers, …
Supplementing our Survey of Recent Developments in BIES with additional visualizations on government spending, primary expenditure, and revenue.
I am a gamer but I stick to the more casual/ez to play these days.
I did some cover videos with my friends. The collaboration is done completely online, which is very convinient since COVID-19 requires measures of physical distancing and we have no plan violating those measures. I mainly sing in these vids while also play some instruments. It is also fun to learn a bit of mixing although my mixing skill is really crappy.
Ok so I also play with this app called Smule which basically a karaoke app. In this app, I often sing japanese song such as L`arcenCiel and One Ok Rock, and I really love dueting with people! If you also play smule, let’s follow each other!
