The Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES) is a peer-reviewed academic journal produced at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
[2] It was believed, however, that the establishment of a journal would help underpin the proposed work of the newly formed Indonesia Project in promoting international research on Indonesian economic developments.
The first issue of the BIES was published in June 1965, just a few months before the attempted coup in Jakarta on 30 September 1965 which initiated the series of political changes that led to the establishment of the New Order government under President Soeharto.
Emeritus Professor Jamie Mackie later recalled that:When Heinz launched the Indonesia Project and the BIES in 1964-65, the likelihood that either would succeed appeared bleak in the extreme.
A local copy edition of BIES is published in Indonesia and is distributed by the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.