Pemerintah telah menggulirkan Gerakan Literasi Nasional (GLN) sejak 2015. Salah satu sentra belajar di masyarakat yang mendukung GLN adalah pendirian Ceribel di Rusunawa Muara Baru, Pluit, Jakarta Utara. Tujuan kegiatan di Rusunawa Muara Baru ini adalah menggerakkan literasi baca-tulis melalui pelayanan kepada anak-anak untuk datang dan melakukan kegiatan positif dan kompetitif selama masa liburan sekolah.  Selain itu, anak-anak yang berkunjung juga dimintai umpan balik terhadap kegiatan yang telah dilakukan di Taman Ceribel untuk menindaklanjuti kegiatan literasi pada masa mendatang. Kegiatan dilakukan selama Juni-Juli 2019. Selama periode itu, Ceribel melayani pengunjung selama sepuluh hari. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini adalah pelayanan dalam peminjaman buku dan pendampingan dalam menulis, membaca, dan menggambar dalam rangka mengikuti lomba literasi. Pengamatan langsung juga dilakukan terhadap aktivitas pengunjung di Ceribel.  Hasil kuesioner tentang umpan balik kegiatan disajikan dalam bentuk persentase yang ditabulasikan dan dideskripsikan. Semua responden, yang berjumlah delapan belas anak, mengakui merasakan manfaat dengan adanya Ceribel sebagai sumber belajar untuk menjadikan mereka pintar. Mereka berharap Ceribel dapat membantu mereka dalam belajar membaca dan bimbingan belajar. Waktu buka pelayanan operasional Ceribel menurut responden sebaiknya setiap hari. Mereka mengakui akan datang kembali ke Ceribel dengan mengajak teman. Disimpulkan bahwa Ceribel telah menarik perhatian anak-anak Rusunawa Muara Baru sebagai tempat bermain, belajar, dan bersosialisasi. Untuk itu, kegiatan literasi ini harus berkesinambungan agar tumbuh minat dan budaya membaca di masyarakat. Disarankan agar Ceribel memiliki sukarelawan dari warga rusun sendiri yang dapat melayani dan mengembangkan Ceribel.

Expansionary Fiscal Policy in the form of Deficit Fiscal is still being debated due to differences in views regarding the effect of budget deficits. The Ricardian Equivalence disciple argues that Deficit Fiscal Policy has a neutral impact on consumption. In contrast, Non-Ricardians (Keynesian and Neoclassical) argue that Budget Deficit Policy affects Private Consumption. Government policies affect private consumption through deficit fiscal policies such as budget deficits, government spending, taxes, and government debt. This study analyzes the effect of the fiscal deficit on consumption and observes the existence of the Ricardian Equivalence View in Indonesia. The estimation model used is the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) through IRF and VD testing with time series data from 1980-2018. The results showed that the Budget Deficit Policy had a significant positive effect on private consumption, where the Fiscal Deficit shock was responded positively by Private Consumption. So that the Ricardian view does not apply in Indonesia and is more inclined to the Keynesian view. The positive response continues in the long term permanently, where 58.42% of the variation in the formation of the Private Consumption indicator (in period 10), is a Budget Deficit.

The Economic crisis has impacted the disruption of the stability of a country's financial system, including ASEAN countries. In Indonesia, there is a Financial System Stability Committee (KSSK) whose duties are to coordinate monitoring and maintaining financial system stability. KSSK has the authority to set the criteria and indicators for assessing financial system stability conditions concerning the financial system's stability. The second authority is to evaluate the condition of financial system stability based on input from each member of the Financial System Stability Committee, along with supporting data and information. As an economic area with history, ASEAN countries certainly have a relationship, either strong or weak. This study conducted calculations of the financial stability index (Aggregate Financial Stability Index) built from the Morris framework (2010) consisting of sub-index Financial Development Index, Financial Vulnerability Index, Financial Soundness Index, World Economic Climate Index. The calculation results showed that in ASEAN 6, there were fluctuations in financial stability, and there were variations in the correlation of financial stability. Therefore, improving the financial stability in Indonesia needs to consider the existence of financial stability in other countries.

The paper aims to examine how the growth impact of government spending in Indonesia, with a focus on several expenditure sectors, namely defense, education, health, agriculture, transport and communications, and manufacturing sectors. Based on the 17 sectors studied, only 6 sectors significantly influence economic growth, namely industrial sector, agriculture and irrigation sector, transportation and transportation sector, environment and spatial sector, political sector and mass media lighting, and security of order. Meanwhile, of the six sectors, only the security sector of order has a positive effect on economic growth, while the other five sectors negatively affect economic growth. If not paid attention to the level of significance, almost all sectors of development expenditure have a negative impact on economic growth, only 5 sectors that have a positive influence that is the labor sector, education sector, national culture, trust in God YME, youth and sports, housing and residential sector , the science and technology sector, as well as the security and order sectors. However, only the security sector of order has a significant effect, while the other four sectors have no significant effect. This result differs from previously conclusions, where their overall conclusion of the government development spending sector has a significant effect, the effect being positive. However, the same conclusions are generated for the security and order sectors, where the results are positive and significant.

Sustainable finance is one of the instruments that can be used to achieve sustainable development goals. Practices of sustainable finance are regulated in the Financial Services Authority Regulation No. 51 / POJK.03 / 2017 (“POJK 51”), where one of the requirements in its implementation is to publish a Sustainability Report annually. However, before being obliged to release a Sustainability Report, banks, particularly BUKU 4, had published the report. Seeing that the Sustainability Report has been prepared before reporting requirements, these banks are running a sustainable business. To measure the level of sustainability of a bank, we build a Sustainable Financial Index. The Sustainable Financial Index is compiled based on 42 indicators built on sustainable finance’s eight principles. Using Bank Mandiri, BCA, BNI, BRI, and Bank CIMB as the observed bank, the results show that the Sustainable Financial Index for each bank has increased from year to year. The increment indicates that the practice of sustainable finance is running well in BUKU 4. Besides, each bank has different characteristics; thus, the principles that stand out in implementing sustainable finance differ from one bank to another. However, the index has several limitations, so that further index development is required.Keywords: BUKU 4, Sustainable Financial Index, POJK 51, Sustainability Report