Professor Peter McDonald, Dr Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo and Professor Terence Hull have been successful in gaining an ARC Discovery grant of $349,000 over 3 years for the project, Transition to adulthood in greater Jakarta: A longitudinal perspective.

Interviewing 3,000 young adult Indonesians at two points in time, this project examines whether their economic and social outcomes change across time or whether early experience determines longer-term outcomes. What are the factors involved in transition to adulthood among young people in a rapidly developing metropolis of a developing country?