Aichiro Suryo Prabowo

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Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Management

E: aichiro@monash.edu

Aichiro Suryo Prabowo is an Assistant Professor at Monash University, Indonesia. His research integrates sustainability principles into public budgeting and finance. Specifically, his intellectual inquiry explores mechanisms through which the government can address environmental sustainability without sacrificing fiscal sustainability. Beyond academia, he has consulted for the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC on fiscal and climate policies in Nigeria and the EU, and previously served as an Associate Director at Indonesia's Presidential Office (UKP4).

At Monash, Dr. Suryo Prabowo teaches courses in the Master of Public Policy and Management and the Master of Sustainability programs. Prior to this, he was a Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University, where he developed and taught a graduate course on Sustainable Finance at the Brooks School of Public Policy. He received his PhD in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland-College Park, where he also taught Public Economics and Public Budgeting and Financial Management, and his MPP from the University of Chicago. His publications can be found on his personal website.

More information

  1. Suryo Prabowo, A. and Thomas Luke Spreen. Forthcoming. "Strategic Investment of Public Funds: State Responses to Federal R&D Grants." Journal of Public Policy.
  2. Suryo Prabowo, A. 2022. "Budget Process and Budget Structure under the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia.", In Giovanna Dabbicco et al. (Eds), Public Sector Accounting, Financial Accountability and Viability in Times of Crisis, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04745-9_2.
  3. Joyce, P.G. and Aichiro Suryo Prabowo. 2020. "Government responses to the coronavirus in the United States: immediate remedial actions, rising debt levels and budgetary hangovers", Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, Vol. 32 No. 5, pp. 745-758. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-07-2020-0111.
  4. Suryo Prabowo, A. 2019. "Performance Budgeting in Indonesia: Brief History, Progress, and Lessons Learned." In Ho, Alfred T., Maarten de Jong, and Zaozao Zhao (Eds.), Performance Budgeting Reforms: Theories and International Practices, ch. 11. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351055307-11.
  • Public Budgeting and Finance
  • Tax Policy
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Disaster Finance
  • Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship (USD 15,000), 2022
  • University of Maryland, Summer Research Fellowship (USD 5,000), 2020
  • University of Maryland, Graduate School Dean’s Fellowship (USD 30,000), 2019
  • Joseph W. Rogers Fellowship (USD 3,420), 2019
  • New Mandala Indonesia Correspondent Fellowship (AUD 12,000), 2019
  • "Perpajakan dalam Pilpres," Kompas, September 26, 2023.
  • "Rigid bureaucracy hampers new ministers", The Jakarta Post, November 4, 2019.
  • "How Jokowi spends money better in a second term," New Mandala, July 23, 2019.
  • "Building a better infrastructure policy after Indonesia’s elections," New Mandala, March 7, 2019.
  • "Indonesia’s real infrastructure challenge: getting people out of their cars," New Mandala, April 16, 2019.
  • "A note for the second presidential debate," The Jakarta Post, February 19, 2019.
  • "Why does unqualified opinion matter?", The Jakarta Post, September 7, 2018.
  • IARC Summer Course Scholarship 2025, International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO) – Awarded full funding to attend the Summer Course on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection, Lyon, France (July 2025)
  • Gold Awards in ASEAN Digital Awards 2025 for Public Sector Category: Sehat IndonesiaKu (ASIK) MoH (January 2025)
  • Women in Govtech 2024, GovInsider (December 2024)
  • Top Downloaded Article 2022 in Journal of Zoonoses and Public Health (March 2024)
  • Runner Up Winner in the 2023 National ICT Product Selection Competition for Public Sector Category: Sehat IndonesiaKu (ASIK) Indonesian Ministry of Health (October 2023)
  • 50 Persona Femina – Inspirational Figure (April 2023)
  • 2022 Public Service Innovation Awards Competition: Ministry of Health: Innovators – Peduli Lindungi Application as Top 45 Public Service Innovations in 2022 (December 2022)
  • 1st Place in the 2023 National ICT Product Selection Competition Public Sector Category: SATUSEHAT Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia (November 2022)
  • One Health World Congress Travel Awards 2022, Singapore (November 2022)
  • Halal Trip: 40 Inspiring Muslim Influencers – The Creators (August 2022)
  • Special Visit Program - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia (June 2022)
  • IPEMI Awards: Indonesia Inspirational Women 2021 (December 2021)
  • Gatra Awards: Appreciation for People with Huge Contribution in Pandemic (December 2021)
  • Women of the Year 2020, Her World Indonesia (October 2020)
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Young Investigator Award, 19th International Congress of Infectious Disease (June 2020)
  • Poster of Distinction Award in International Digestive Disease Forum, Hong Kong      (June 2019)
  • Top Downloaded Article 2017-2018 in Journal of Viral Hepatitis (June 2019)
  • International Digestive Disease Forum Travel Grant, Hong Kong (June 2019)
  • Inspirational Female Young Scientist – TEMPO (May 2019)
  • Asia Pacific Digestive Week Travel Award, Seoul Korea (November 2018)
  • ESCAIDE Funding Initiative, Stockholm (November 2017)
  • Best abstract at International Liver Congress, Amsterdam 2017 (April 2017)
  • Young Investigator Award on APASL Annual Meeting (Feb 2017)
  • Finalist Poster Competition on UCL Populations & Lifelong Health Domain Symposium (Jan 2017)
  • Young Investigator Travel Award from EASL Special Conference (Sept 2016)
  • National Winner of Imagine Cup Student Competition in World Citizenship Category: TB DeCare (Tuberculosis Detect and Care) (April 2016)
  • Indonesia Presidential Scholarship from Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (Oct 2014)
  • Master Program studentship from Ministry of Higher Education (Sept 2014)
  • The Most Outstanding Student in Public Health Faculty, Universitas Indonesia (April 2009)
  • Finalist of Imagine Cup Student Competition in Design for Development Category (July 2009)
  • Altech Young Scientist Award (May 2009)
  • 1st winner Scientific Writing Competition in Student Scientific Olympiad UI 2008