My research interests are mainly on the topics of spatial methods and regional economics. Below is a summary of my research activity.

Publications

Working Papers

Pekerti, I.S. & Fitrianto, G. (2026) Examination of Indonesian Interprovincial Development Inequality Through Network Analysis. Working Paper.

Fitrianto, G. & Pekerti, I.S. (2025) Enabling Million-Cell Spatial Econometrics: Sparse Matrix Methods for National-Scale Analysis. Submitted to Journal.

Journal Articles

Asyahid, E.A. & Pekerti, I.S. (2022) Economic Impact of Natural Disasters, Spillovers, and Role of Human Development: Case of Indonesia, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 15, 493–506. DOI: 10.1007/s12076-022-00307-7

Pekerti, I.S. (2021) Impact of Socio-economic Vulnerability towards Covid-19 Force of Infection in Jakarta, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2021.1914321

Book Chapters

Maiorino, S., Michelangeli, A., Pekerti, I.S., Scardino, R. (2025) Porre fine ad ogni forma di povertà nel mondo, in: Vignali, R. et al. (Eds.), Rapporto Lombardia 2025: Intelligenza Artificiale per La Sostenibilità. Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli, pp. 19–38.

Pekerti, I.S. (2021) Preliminary Evaluation of PSBB and Transitional PSBB Effectiveness in DKI Jakarta, IRSA Book Series on Regional Development No. 19. IRSA Press. Google Books: Available for free

Grants and Awards

  • PhD Research Fellowship – Assessing Policy Impacts at Sub-regional Level (2023–2026) Funded by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), Mission 4 – Education and Research, Decreto Ministeriale 118/2023 (“Dottorato per la Pubblica Amministrazione”). Politecnico di Milano.

  • Collaborative Research Grant, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Nov–Dec 2024) Project: “Utilization of Huge Sparse Spatial W Matrix: Unravel Gridded Agglomeration Pattern Across Indonesia”. Role: Co-Investigator.

  • LPDP Scholarship (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) (2022–2023) Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia. Competitive national scholarship for postgraduate study abroad – University of Groningen, MSc Economic Geography.

Research Projects

  • Research Visit, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University (Aug 2025 – Jan 2026) Works under the guidance of Prof. Robert Huggins on the cultural aspect of family policy in the Italian labour policy landscape, contributing to the PhD thesis on the Ex-Ante Labour Supply Response Estimation of Childcare Expansion Plan.

  • Research Project with QuaRCS Lab, GSID Nagoya University (Jul 2021 – Mar 2023) Collaboration with Prof. Carlos Mendez and Harry Aginta on “Regional luminosity through the lens of the spatial Solow model: Evidence from Java, Indonesia”.

Conferences and Seminars

  • 2025 IDE School on Spatial Economics for Young Economists, Chiba, Japan (Oct 2025). Hosted by IDE-JETRO. Presented ongoing PhD research on ex-ante policy impact assessment integrating spatial microsimulation, economic behavioural modelling, and digital twin simulation. Link
  • 20th IRSA International Conference 2025, Semarang, Indonesia (Jul 2025). Presented work on the use of sparse matrix in building the W-matrix within spatial quantitative methods.
  • Workshop on ‘Advances in Spatial and Network Modelling for Policy Making’, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (May 2025).
  • RSAI BIS Early Career Colloquium 2025, Online (Jan 2025).
  • AISRe XLV Annual Scientific Conference, Turin, Italy (Sep 2024). Presented research on archipelagic inequality in Indonesia.
  • 5th AISRe Summer School on Policy Evaluation in Regional Science, Rome, Italy (May 2024).
  • 18th IRSA International Conference 2023, Bogor, Indonesia (Jul 2023). Presented “SimJogja: A Spatial Microsimulation Application to Local Labour Market Impact Assessment of COVID-19”. Link
  • 16th IRSA International Conference 2021, Yogyakarta, Indonesia – Online (Jul 2021). Presented “District-Level Income Convergence Analysis in Java, 2014-2018: A Spatial Econometrics Approach”. Link