Intelligence
for policy.
Evidence for progress.

A lab where rigorous economics, social sciences, and data meet artificial intelligence, for Indonesia and the Global South.

01 / What we do

A lab where rigorous economics, social sciences, and data meet artificial intelligence.

AIEPA generates evidence-based insights that support sustainable and inclusive development, for Indonesia and the Global South.

We sit at the intersection of three disciplines: applied statistics for causal rigor, data science and machine learning for scale, and social-science inquiry (political economy, geopolitics, and institutional analysis) for contextual depth. Our work serves ministries, businesses, multilateral agencies, civil society, and the next generation of economists and social scientists training at UIII.

01

Research & Data

AI-powered economic research on climate, trade, and sustainable finance, producing working papers, policy briefs, and open datasets.

02

Training

Capacity building for graduate students and professionals in AI, data science, and applied econometrics, through bootcamps and workshops.

03

Service

Evidence-based policy analytics for governments, NGOs, and the private sector. We also provide an affordable data platform for researchers.

02 / Mission & Vision
To become a leading interdisciplinary lab in Southeast Asia for AI-driven economics, social sciences, and policy research, bridging the gap between cutting-edge methods and real-world policy impact.
AIEPA · Mission & Vision

Values

Grounded in evidence and strong academic tradition.

Common Good

Research that serves society, not just academia.

Innovation

Pioneering AI methods for economics and policy.

03 / Research focus

Research domains.

01

Digital Society & AI

Platform regulationAI governanceDigital sovereigntyAlgorithmic accountabilityAI in economics pedagogyTeaching innovationComputational media analysis
02

Macroeconomics & Finance

Macroeconomic nowcasting & forecastingMacro-financial modeling & simulationFinancial stability & systemic riskMonetary policy analyticsCentral bank communicationFiscal policy & budget analytics
03

Climate & Environment

Climate risk modelingGreen transition pathwaysSpatial climate econometrics
04

Labor, Skills & the Future of Work

AI, automation & job displacementAI adoption & firm-level productivitySkills, training & human capital formationAI ethics, fairness & work governance
05

Political Economy & Governance

Elections & fiscal policyElite networksState-business relationsInstitutional analysisPublic goods provisionGovernance quality
04 / Key activities

What we work on, in practice.

Climate Risk Analytics

Climate risk, ETS, and transition

AI-powered climate risk assessment, emissions trading analysis, and green transition modeling for Indonesian policy.

Trade, Geopolitics & Fiscal

Tariffs, simulation, fiscal effect

Tariff impact analysis, trade policy simulation, export-control scenarios (IEEPA, supply-chain weaponization), and fiscal policy effectiveness studies.

Sustainable Finance

Green sukuk & ESG outlook

Green sukuk analysis, ESG data analytics, and sustainable investment outlook reports for emerging markets.

Impact Evaluation

Program evaluation at scale

Rigorous evaluation for development projects using difference-in-differences, RCTs, and quasi-experimental methods.

Text-as-Data & CSS

Computational social science

NLP on policy documents, parliamentary speeches, and media corpora; large language models for policy-relevant text, bridging AI methods and social-science questions.

Capacity Building

Bootcamps & workshops

Data science bootcamps, econometrics workshops, and hands-on AI training for graduate students and professionals.

05 / Publications

Evidence, in print.

Three tracks — quick snapshot analyses, policy-facing insights, and full working papers.

Snapshot Analysis

First looks from the lab

Early readouts and method demos we want to get into circulation quickly.

AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 07

Who cites Indonesia's top law journals?

A citation map of every Indonesian law journal indexed in Scopus, set against the global Q1 universe. 346 journals, 17.3 million reference records. The picture: dense intra-network clustering, with high-ranked Indonesian journals citing each other at high frequency.

Author
AIEPA Lab
Released
May 2026
Topics
Scholarly infrastructure · Citation networks · Bibliometrics
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AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 06

The map that was always there

Indonesia's KBJI 2014 catalogs 2,136 occupations and, scattered across its entries, hundreds of "related occupations" notations that no team has ever extracted. AI did. The result is a 433-node, 656-edge network of occupational relatedness — and a striking finding: Green Potential occupations concentrate where the network is thinnest.

Author
Rachmat Reksa Samudra
Released
May 2026
Topics
Labor classification · Network analysis · Green economy
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AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 05

The shape of Steam, and where to bet for 2027–2030

~95,000 games on the world's biggest PC marketplace, audited and analyzed. What wins, who plays where, and a 5-year forecast on platforms, prices, and play-modes — written for anyone curious about the gaming industry, not just insiders.

Author
Yusya' A. Fitrachman
Released
May 2026
Topics
Gaming industry · Platform forecasts · Inelastic markets
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AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 04

Trade Port — Indonesia's Maritime Trade Network

Indonesia is a coastline of 17,000 islands strung along the world's busiest maritime corridor, where roughly a third of all seaborne trade passes through the Malacca, Sunda, and Lombok straits each year. Trade Port is an interactive map of the network this geography produces — every international shipping connection between Indonesia's 70 active international ports and the 124 countries they serve.

Author
Teguh Yudo Wicaksono
Released
April 2026
Topics
Maritime trade · Port networks · Indonesia exposure
Open the live map
AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 03

Eighty years of Chinese capital, color-coded by what it heated

China's Overseas Power Investment, an interactive atlas. Maps every debt and equity flow from Chinese banks and state-owned enterprises into overseas power plants between 1948 and 2030: 592 projects across 90 countries, totaling over USD 137 billion in committed finance.

Author
Teguh Yudo Wicaksono
Released
April 2026
Topics
Energy finance · Belt and Road · Global South power mix
Open the live globe
AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 02

A Hormuz crisis, costed for Indonesia

One waterway carries a fifth of Indonesia's crude imports. We model what disruption does to the rupiah, the budget, and 2026 growth. Three numbers a finance ministry should be looking at this week.

Author
Rima Prama Artha
Released
April 2026
Topics
Macro shocks · Energy security · Indonesia fiscal exposure
Open the live briefing
AIEPA Lab Snapshot Analysis · No. 01

Do as I Say, Nine Months Later: Measuring Fed-to-BI Tone Transmission with Agentic AI

An agentic-AI pipeline scores FOMC and Bank Indonesia communications on a common hawkish–dovish scale, revealing a lead-lag of roughly nine months (ρ ≈ 0.70) in how BI's tone tracks the Fed's.

Author
Rachmat Reksa Samudra
Released
April 2026
Topics
Central bank communication · LLM text scoring
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Policy Insight

For the desks that decide

Notes pitched to ministries, regulators, and multilateral partners.

Coming soon.

Our first Policy Insights are in the pipeline and will land through 2026.

More releases on the way. Policy Insights and additional Working Papers will be published on a rolling basis through 2026.

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06 / News & Updates

What's happening at the lab.

Project · Bank Mandiri
April 2026 · Active engagement

Building the AI research stack for Indonesia's largest bank

AIEPA is working with Bank Mandiri's Office of the Chief Economist on a research engagement that rebuilds parts of an economist's daily workflow around AI. See the project →

News & Updates
27 April 2026 · No. 02

A diplomat's Raspberry Pi: NanoClaw, sovereign AI, and the Global South

Singapore's foreign minister open-sourced his personal AI assistant. We read it against ~25 comparator countries, lay out three risk registers, and propose a research agenda only AIEPA can run. Read analysis →

News & Updates
22 April 2026

Singapore wrote the AI governance playbook the region is quietly copying

A tour of the Model AI Governance Framework, its GenAI addendum, and what Indonesia should think hard about before borrowing wholesale. With a four-jurisdiction comparison chart. Read analysis →

News & Updates
15 April 2026 · No. 01

When Mythos reaches Jakarta

Anthropic's cybersecurity scare and the Glasswing coalition redrew the map of who gets to defend themselves. What that means for Indonesia and the Global South. Read analysis →

News & Updates
08 April 2026

The Claude personality, and the data problem underneath it

A model marketed as the ethical one still trains on the same scraped internet as the rest. What that means for anyone thinking carefully about AI use, with a look at the corpus composition. Read analysis →

News & Updates
03 April 2026

A million-token window just made half our pipelines obsolete

Long-context models are quietly rewriting the empirical workflow. Plus OpenAI structured outputs, DeepSeek V3.2, and a reasoning-plus-executor pattern for cutting costs. Read analysis →

Announcement
01 April 2026

AIEPA officially launches at Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia

The AI, Economics, and Policy Analytics Lab formally opens its doors, bringing together economists, data scientists, and policy researchers under one interdisciplinary roof.

07 / Playbook

Practical guides for AI-powered research.

Short, practitioner-focused notes from the lab on working with frontier AI tools: what to pick, how to price it, and how to prompt it. Written for economists, social scientists, and policy teams getting hands-on with the stack.

08 / Partners

Our Partners.

More partnerships coming soon.

09 / Who we serve

Evidence for those who shape decisions.

i.

Universities & Students

Hands-on training for UIII and other Indonesian universities in AI, data science, and applied econometrics, supporting thesis research, publications, and early-career pathways.

ii.

Government & Policymakers

Indonesian ministries, BAPPENAS, Bank Indonesia, OJK, and international bodies, delivering actionable analytics on trade, climate, and fiscal policy.

iii.

Private Sector & Development Partners

Corporations, financial institutions, multilateral agencies (World Bank, ADB, UNICEF), and NGOs seeking rigorous economic research and AI-powered insight.

10 / People

The economists, scientists, and scholars behind the lab.

Leadership
Teguh Yudo Wicaksono

Teguh Yudo Wicaksono

Co-founder & Executive Director

Rima Prama Artha

Rima Prama Artha

Co-Founder & Co-Director
Lecturer, FEB UIII

Core Research Team
Natanael Waraney

Natanael Waraney

Principal Scientist (Non-Resident)

Rachmat Reksa Samudra

Rachmat Reksa Samudra

Head of Research

Yusya' A. Fitrachman

Yusya' A. Fitrachman

Research Scientist

Muhammad Maulidan

Muhammad Maulidan

Research Scientist

Akmal Shalahuddin

Akmal Shalahuddin

Research Scientist

Dewita Nanda Prastiwi

Dewita Nanda Prastiwi

Research Scientist

Schalke Anindya Putri

Schalke Anindya Putri

Research Scientist

Senior Fellows
Aimatul Yumna

Aimatul Yumna

Senior Fellow

M. Al Atiqi

M. Al Atiqi

Senior Fellow

M. Luthfi Hamidi

M. Luthfi Hamidi

Senior Fellow

Philips J. Vermonte

Philips J. Vermonte

Senior Fellow

Rininta Nurrachmi

Rininta Nurrachmi

Senior Fellow

Sirojuddin Arif

Sirojuddin Arif

Senior Fellow

Taridi Kasbi Ridho

Taridi Kasbi Ridho

Senior Fellow

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