Announcement
The new BIES Interactive Forum--Ross H.McLeod

SURVEY ARTICLE:
1) Survey of Recent Developments--Anton H. Gunawan and Reza Y. Siregar

OTHER ARTICLES:
1) Economic Policies of the Habibie Presidency: a Retrospective--Stephen V. Marks
2) Resolving Contradictions in Indonesian Fertility Estimates--Terence H. Hull and Wendy Hartanto
3) The Lapindo Mudflow Disaster: Environmental, Infrastructure and Economic Impact
4) Livelihood Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in Aceh--Craig Thorburn
5) Climate Change and Indonesia: in Honour of Panglaykim--Ross Garnaut

ABSTRACTS OF DOCTORAL THESES ON THE INDONESIAN ECONOMY
1) Equity and environmental policy in Indonesia--Arief Anshory Yusuf
2) Designing pension programs to strengthen formal labor markets in developing countries: The case of Indonesia--Muliadi Widjaja
3) Peasants and policymakers: Agriculture transformation in Java under Suharto--Tobias Axelsson
4) Political accountability, incentives and public service delivery: Theory with evidence from local governments in Indonesia--Sebastian Eckardt
5) A study of Indonesia fiscal equalisation mechanism in the early stages of decentralisation--Hefrizal Handra
6) Poverty incidence in Indonesia, 1987-2002: A utility-conistent approach based on a new survey of regional prices--Muhammad Nashihin

BOOK REVIEWS
1) Jesus Felipe and Rana Hasan (eds) (2006) Labor markets in Asia: Issues and perspective--Chris Manning
2) Lex Rieffel and Jaleswari Pramodhawardhani (2007) Out of business and on budget: The challenge of military financing in Indonesia--Bob Lowry
3) Greg Fealy and Sally White (eds) (2008) Expressing Islam: Religious life and politics in Indonesia--Elizabeth Collins
4) Organisation for economic Co-operation and Development (2008) Indonesia: Economic Assessment 2008--Peter Mc Cawley
5) Craig L.LaMay (2007) Exporting press freedom--Janet Steele