Graduate School of Asia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION:  CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE
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a country of 240 million (as of 2008). an archipelago strung 5000 kilometers along the equator.  more than 13,000 islands, 5,000 are inhabited.  more than 200 ethnic groups and 350 languages and dialects.  85 to 90% are Muslims.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Old Order 1965/ 1966 Chaos New Order Economic Miss-management Political Instability Communist Vs Non Communist Confrontation International Conflicts Development Political  Stability Economic  Growth Equity Globalization  of Ideas Political  Opposition Fragile  Economic  Structure 1998 Crisis Reform Democratization 2008 Crisis Global Financial Meltdown Political Economic Impact Response
THE 1997 ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS AFFECTED A NUMBER OF THE SO-CALLED ASIAN TIGERS BUT RESERVED ITS STRONGEST, AND MOST LASTING, IMPACT FOR INDONESIA. THAT COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC IMPLOSION CAUGHT OBSERVERS AND ANALYSTS BY SURPRISE BECAUSE FEW THOUGHT THAT THE INDONESIAN ECONOMY WAS PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO A FINANCIAL COLLAPSE.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ADMITTEDLY, INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE DID NOT MATCH THAT OF THE EARLY EAST ASIAN DEVELOPERS SUCH AS SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, TAIWAN AND ESPECIALLY KOREA, BUT ITS ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS, PARTICULARLY IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE 1980S AND THROUGH THE EARLY 1990S, EARNED INDONESIA INCREASING RESPECT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY . Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
INDEED, DURING THE PERIOD FROM MID-1985, WHEN A NUMBER OF MAJOR POLICY REFORMS WERE PUT INTO PLACE, TO MID-1997, WHEN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS TOOK ITS TOLL, INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE SUGGESTED THAT IT WAS WELL ON ITS WAY TO JOINING THE RANKS OF THE “ASIAN TIGERS.”  INDONESIA’S REAL GDP/CAPITA INCOME, GREW AT A RATE THAT MATCHED THAT OF THE RAPIDLY GROWING ASIAN ECONOMIES, ESPECIALLY MALAYSIA AND KOREA, ALTHOUGH INDONESIA’S GROWTH BEGAN FROM A LOWER ABSOLUTE PER CAPITA INCOME LEVEL. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IT IS PERHAPS NOT SURPRISING THEN THAT MANY ANALYSTS, ENCOURAGED BY THE IMPROVEMENTS THEY OBSERVED IN INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND THE RESULTS ACHIEVED IN TERMS OF RAPID GROWTH, STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION, PRAISED INDONESIA AS ONE OF ASIA’S SUCCESS STORIES.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE 1997  GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT  POINTED OUT THAT  BRAZIL ,  CHINA ,  INDIA  AND  INDONESIA , THE “ GOLIATH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ,” HAD “TAKEN IMPORTANT STRIDES IN ECONOMIC REFORM IN THE PAST DECADE, AND ALL EXCEPT INDIA ADVANCED IN … THE COMPETITIVENESS RANKING” THE REPORT SHOWED THAT INDONESIA’S GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING ROSE FROM THIRTIETH PLACE IN 1995 TO FIFTEENTH PLACE IN 1996, PLACING IT IMMEDIATELY BEHIND JAPAN. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IT WAS ALSO DURING THE 1990s, WHEN INDONESIA SEEMED ON A FAST DEVELOPMENT TRACK, THAT ITS ECONOMIC POLICIES WERE HELD UP AS AN OBJECT LESSON FOR OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. INDONESIA, WHICH HAD PUT INTO PLACE MANY OF THE POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS THAT CLOSELY RESEMBLED THE “WASHINGTON CONSENSUS,” WAS CONSIDERED AN APPROPRIATE ROLE MODEL BECAUSE IT HAD MANAGED TO SHIFT FROM A RELATIVELY CLOSED ECONOMY WITH STRONG PROTECTION FOR NEARLY ALL DOMESTIC SECTORS TO A MORE OPEN ECONOMY THAT WAS INCREASINGLY ABLE TO COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Source: World Bank Development Indicator * Economies that have reached industrialized countries per capita income level. **  Period in which GDP growth was 7 percent per year or more. ***  In constant US$ of 2000. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Economy Period of high growth ** Per capita income at the  beginning and 2005 *** Botswana 1960-2005 210 3,800 Brazil 1950-1980 960 4,000 China 1961-2005 105 1,400 Hong Kong, China * 1960-1997 3,100 29,900 Indonesia 1966-1997 200 900 Japan * 1960-1983 3,500 39,600 Korea, Rep. of * 1960-2001 1,100 13,200 Malaysia 1967-1997 790 4,400 Malta * 1963-1994 1,100 9,600 Oman 1960-1999 950 9,000 Singapore 1967-2002 2,200 25,400 Taiwan, China * 1965-2002 1,500 16,400 Thailand 1960-1997 330 2,400
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Success Story Political Stability High Economic  Growth Accelerated  Poverty Reduction Old Order 1965/1966 Chaos New Order “ Law & Order” Tight Political Control Market Economy Rice Self Sufficiency 6 year Compulsory Education Health; Family Planning Public Health Social Service Open Capital Account Trade Deregulation Financial Deregulation Infrastructure Development Support of Western Countries
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POLITICAL STABILITY THE NEW ORDER GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESIDENT SUHARTO GOVERNNED INDONESIA FOR 32 YEARS (1966-1998) FROM THE BEGINNING POLITICAL STABILITY WAS RELENTLESSLY PURSUED AND  SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAINED THE MILITARY, THE BUREAUCRACY AND GOLKAR (THE GOVERNMENT’S PARTY) CONSTITUTED THE POLITICAL PILLARS OF THE NEW ORDER THE FLOATING MASS DEPOLITICIZING OF THE MASSES,  CONSTITUTED AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE POLITICAL STRATEGY TO SUSTAIN LONG-TERM POLITICAL STABILITY.  THE POLITICAL SYSTEM HAD PRODUCED THE INTENDED RESULT: POLITICAL STABILITY THAT HAD ENDURED FOR THREE DECADES, SUSTAINING ECONOMIC GROWTH WHICH IN TURN FURTHER REINFORCED ITS CLAIM TO LEGITIMACY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL STABILITY ASSURED, AND WITH UNIFORMITY OF PURPOSE AND METHOD THE NEW ORDER EARNESTLY EMBARKED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS WIDELY CONSIDERED AS SUCCESSFUL USING VARIOUS STANDARD OF MEASUREMENTS  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION IN THE EARLY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT, INDONESIA DEPENDED ON OIL INCOME AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE. 1980: INDONESIA EMBARKED ON VARIOUS ECONOMIC REFORMS TO EMBRACE GLOBALIZATION.  ELEMENTS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION PRE-1980. ADOPTION OF AN OPEN CAPITAL ACCOUNT. THE BALANCED BUDGET POLICY. COMPETITIVE REAL EXCHANGE RATE WITH PERIODIC ADJUSTMENTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ELEMENTS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION POST-1980: DEREGULATION OF FOREIGN TRADE. REDUCTION AND REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT. LIBERALIZATION OF FINANCIAL SECTOR. ADOPTION OF A MODERN, SIMPLIFIED TAX SYSTEM. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
RISING PER CAPITA INCOME OVER THE PERIOD 1965-95 REAL GDP PER CAPITA GREW AT AN ANNUAL AVERAGE RATE OF 7 %.  IN THE MID 1960 ’ S INDONESIA WAS POORER THAN INDIA.  BY MID 1995, INDONESIA ’ S GDP PER CAPITA EXCEEDED $ 1,000, OVER 3 TIMES INDIA ’ S  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
SHARPLY DECLINING LEVELS OF POVERTY   THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION LIVING BELOW THE NATIONAL POVERTY LINE FELL FROM AROUND 60% IN 1970 TO 40% IN 1976 TO 15% IN 1990 AND TO 11.5% IN 1996  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
RISING SHARE OF MANUFACTURING OUTPUT IN GDP THE SHARE OF THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN GDP ROSE FROM 7.6% IN 1973 TO NEARLY 25% IN 1995.  THIS WAS DRIVEN BY THE RAPID GROWTH OF MANUFACTURED EXPORTS NON-OIL EXPORTS, WHICH WERE PREDOMINANTLY MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS, GREW BY ROUGHLY 22% PER ANNUM OVER THE DECADE FROM 1985, WHEN TRADE LIBERALIZATION WAS FIRST IMPLEMENTED, TO 1995; A RATE FOUR TIMES FASTER THAN THE GROWTH OF WORLD TRADE  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EQUITY INDONESIA’S BROAD BASED, LABOR-ORIENTED GROWTH STRATEGY, BACKED BY A STRONG RECORD IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, BROUGHT ABOUT ONE OF THE SHARPEST REDUCTIONS IN POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.  AT THE SAME TIME, THIS STRATEGY RESULTED IN REAL WAGES RISING ABOUT AS FAST AS PER-CAPITA GDP AND, AMONG OTHERS, BENEFITED WOMEN BY PROVIDING THEM WITH RAPIDLY GROWING PAID EMPLOYMENT IN THE FORMAL SECTOR, THAT ALLOWED THEM TO SWITCH OUT OF UNPAID WORK IN THE RURAL SECTOR.  SOCIAL INDICATORS, SUCH AS INFANT MORTALITY, FERTILITY AND SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS, ALSO SHOWED SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT. WORLD BANK DOCUMENT (1997) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
LIFE EXPECTANCY ROSE AND INFANT MORTALITY DECLINED DRAMATICALLY. EIGHT OUT OF TEN OF THE POPULATION HAD ACCESST TO HEALTH CARE AND TWO OUT OF THREE TO SAFE DRINKING WATER.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
BUT BY THE END OF THE DECADE A VERY DIFFERENT VIEW EMERGED. ALTHOUGH A NUMBER OF THE ASIAN MIRACLE ECONOMIES WERE SEVERELY AFFECTED BY THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, INDONESIA FARED WORST, QUICKLY TURNING FROM A  “STAR PERFORMER”  TO THE  “SICK MAN” OF EAST ASIA .  ITS ECONOMY PROVED LESS RESILIENT TO THE ASIAN FINANCIAL TURMOIL THAN OTHER ASIAN ECONOMIES AND ITS RECOVERY HAS BEEN SLOWER AND MORE HESITANT THAN THAT OF THE OTHER AFFECTED ASIAN COUNTRIES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
GIVEN INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC TRACK RECORD OVER THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1985 AND 1997, SOME OBSERVERS THOUGHT IT PUZZLING THAT THE ECONOMY WOULD SUFFER SUCH A SEVERE AND SUDDEN COLLAPSE WHEN FACED WITH AN EXTERNAL SHOCK. A NUMBER OF STYLIZED MODELS HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD TO EXPLAIN THE DEPTH AND SPREAD OF THE ASIAN CRISIS, PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO INDONESIA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
DESPITE THE DIFFERING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ORIGINS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THE CORE OF MANY EXPLANATIONS IS THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM WAS LESS WELL MANAGED THAN THE MAJOR ECONOMIC INDICATORS SUGGESTED. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
RATHER THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED IS THAT BASIC MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS OFTEN FAIL TO REFLECT THE GROWING WEAKNESSES (OR STRENGTHS) OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT PROVIDE THE ESSENTIAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE COLLAPSE OF THE INDONESIAN ECONOMY ILLUSTRATES THE NEED FOR COMBINING MEASURES OF GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION WITH A CONCERTED EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS, SUCH AS AN INDEPENDENT AND REASONABLY COMPETENT JUDICIARY, STRENGTHENED CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BANKING SECTOR OVERSIGHT, AS WELL AS A POLITICAL SYSTEM OPEN TO CHANGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHAT APPEARED TO MANY TO BE AN ECONOMY THAT HAD A REASONABLE RECORD OF SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT WAS IN FACT A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM WHOSE STRENGTHS AND INSTITUTIONAL BASE HAD BEEN WEAK AND PROGRESSIVELY WEAKENED BY THE CRISIS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ON 2 JULY 1997, THE CENTRAL BANK OF THAILAND WAS FORCED TO ABANDON ITS FIXED EXCHANGE RATE REGIME AND THE BAHT IMMEDIATELY DEPRECIATED BY ALMOST 20%. AS QUESTIONS BEGAN TO BE RAISED ABOUT THE STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS OF THE EAST ASIAN ECONOMIES THERE WAS A SUDDEN AND DRAMATIC REVERSAL OF CAPITAL FLOWS AS INFLOWS TURNED INTO MASSIVE CAPITAL OUTFLOWS AND BANKS THAT WERE ONCE EAGER TO LEND TO NEARLY ANY ASIAN INVESTOR SUDDENLY REFUSED TO RENEW SHORT-TERM CREDIT LINES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
DURING THE THREE MONTHS BETWEEN JULY AND SEPTEMBER 1997, THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS GATHERED FULL FORCE AND BEGAN TO AFFECT INDONESIA DESPITE CONTINUED EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE THAT THE SOUNDNESS OF ITS ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS AND MANAGEMENT WOULD SEE IT THROUGH WITH LITTLE DAMAGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE EXCHANGE RATE DROPS FROM  2,400  RP/$ (JULY 1997) TO 16,000 RP/$ (JUNE 1998).  1998: GDP GROWTH: -13.6% INFLATION: 77.6%. COLLAPSE OF THE BANKING SYSTEM: COST OF RESTRUCTURING THE BANKING SYSTEM: RP. 650 TRILLION (US$65 BILLION) TOTAL EXTERNAL DEBT (1999):  $148 BILLION, OR 104% GDP HALF OF IT PRIVATE SECTOR’S + $ 30 BILLION SHORT TERM Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
NON-OIL EXPORTS GROWTH: 1998: + 9,9% 1999:  - 7,2% MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS LOST THEIR JOBS CHILDREN LEFT SCHOOL POVERTY INCREASED Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
LOSING THE SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY, THE CABINET, AND THE PARLIAMENT ON MAY 21ST 1998 PRESIDENT SUHARTO RESIGNED HIS PRESIDENCY VICE PRESIDENT BJ HABIBIE ASSUMED THE PRESIDENCY THUS ENDED THE ERA OF THE NEW ORDER. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
HUNTINGTON (1991: 54-55) MAKES THE POINT THAT THE LEGITIMACY OF AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME MIGHT BE UNDERMINED EVEN IF IT DOES DELIVER ON ITS PROMISES.  “ BY ACHIEVING ITS PURPOSE, IT LOST ITS PURPOSE. THIS REDUCED THE REASONS WHY THE PUBLIC SHOULD SUPPORT THE REGIME, GIVEN OTHER COSTS (E.G. LACK OF FREEDOM) CONNECTED WITH THE REGIME”(1991: 55).  HE POSITS THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROVIDED THE BASIS FOR DEMOCRACY.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
HE CITES THE FAMOUS—ALBEIT MUCH CONTESTED-- LIPSET HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: THE WEALTHY COUNTRIES ARE DEMOCRATIC AND THE MOST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES ARE WEALTHY. HE ARGUES THAT: “IN POOR COUNTRIES DEMOCRATIZATION IS UNLIKELY; IN RICH COUNTRIES IT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.”  IN BETWEEN THERE IS A POLITICAL TRANSITION ZONE; COUNTRIES IN THAT PARTICULAR ECONOMIC STRATUM ARE MOST LIKELY TO TRANSIT TO DEMOCRACY AND MOST COUNTRIES THAT TRANSIT TO DEMOCRACY WILL BE IN THAT STRATUM.” (1991: 60). Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
HE MAINTAINS THAT A SOCIAL SCIENTIST WHO WISHED TO PREDICT FUTURE DEMOCRATIZATION “WOULD HAVE DONE REASONABLY WELL IF HE SIMPLY FINGERED THE NON-DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES IN THE $1,000-$3,000 (GNP PER CAPITA) TRANSITION ZONE” (1991: 63). FURTHER STUDIES, IN PARTICULAR AN EXTENSIVE QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS DONE BY PRZEWORSKY ET.AL. (2000: 92) HAS LENT SUPPORT TO HUNTINGTON’S THRESHOLD ARGUMENT.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IN 1996, THE YEAR BEFORE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS SWEPT INDONESIA, ITS GNP PER CAPITA HAD REACHED $1,155.  ACCORDING TO HUNTINGTON’S THEORY, AT THAT STAGE INDONESIA HAD ENTERED THE TRANSITION ZONE, WHICH MEANT THAT IT WAS SENSITIVE TO PRESSURE FOR POLITICAL CHANGE.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Setting For Change Fall of Global  Communism Democratization Human Rights 1998 Crisis Internal Dynamics Fall of Information  Barrier Rise of Middle Class Social Awareness Enlightened Public Political Islam Disparity : Income Sectoral Regional Ethnic Opportunity Closed System Cronyism Corruption Nepotism Dysfunctional Bureaucracy Overheated Economy Lack of Banking  Oversight Aggressive  Foreign (Short Term)  Lending Collapse of the Economy Breakdown of Social Compact Abandonment of International Support Role of Student Political Elite Mlitary Reform Movement External Forces :
THREE DECADES OF DEVELOPMENT HAD SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE LEVEL AND REACH OF EDUCATION ACROSS THE NATION AND SOCIAL CLASSES.  WITH EDUCATION CAME ENLIGHTENMENT AND EMANCIPATION FROM CULTURAL RESTRICTION, FREEING PEOPLE FROM THE SHACKLES OF OLD INHIBITIONS AND TRADITIONS.  WITH EDUCATION PEOPLE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE WERE MORE NEEDS THAN JUST PRIMARY NEEDS OF FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THOUSANDS OF INDONESIANS WHO STUDIED AT FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES, MOST OF THEM IN WESTERN COUNTRIES, LEARNED FIRST HAND THE SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES THAT HAS BEEN THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THAT RESULTED IN THE AFFLUENCE OF THE WESTERN SOCIETIES.  THEY RETURNED HOME IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM, WHICH WAS A POTENT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION TO CHANGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE SUPPOSED ULTIMATE VICTORY OF DEMOCRACY AGAINST ALL OTHER SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT (SEE FUKUYAMA, 1992) HAS CHANGED THE PEOPLE’S POLITICAL ATTITUDES, OR AT LEAST THE ELITE’S PERCEPTION, OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AS AN EVIL SYSTEM.  INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE BROUGHT ABOUT THE OPENING UP NOT OF ONLY THE INDONESIAN MARKET TO FOREIGN GOODS BUT ALSO THE INDONESIAN SOCIETY TO FOREIGN IDEAS.  WITH GLOBALIZATION CAME NOT ONLY THE INTEGRATION OF MARKETS BUT ALSO THE INTRODUCTION AND EVENTUAL INTEGRATION OF IDEAS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE BREAKDOWN OF BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION, THE MAIN FORCE BEHIND GLOBALIZATION AND THE DRIVE TOWARD A HIGHER DEGREE OF CIVILIZATION, SWEPT INDONESIA WITH READILY AVAILABLE AND UP TO DATE INFORMATION.  IT FREED THE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CONSTRAINTS OF TIME AND SPACE. CENSORSHIP WAS NO LONGER RELEVANT, BECAUSE ONE COULD ACCESS INFORMATION THROUGH THE INTERNET, CNN OR CABLE TV, OR JUST TRAVEL.  THE DIFFUSION OF DEMOCRATIC IDEALS BY THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY WAS UNSTOPPABLE. THE INFORMATION BERLIN WALL WAS CRUMBLING DOWN. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT CLOSED DOWN THE POPULAR INDONESIA MAGAZINE, TEMPO, BECAUSE OF IT CRITICAL TONE, IT SIMPLY RESURFACED AS AN INTERNET WEBSITE.  PEOPLE CLOSELY FOLLOWED THE FALL OF NON-DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES AND IN A COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE PHILIPPINES AND KOREA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
STUDENTS   ACTIVISM AMONG THE SOCIAL FORCES THAT WERE POISED AGAINST THE NEW ORDER, THE MOST CONSISTENT AND MILITANT WERE THE STUDENTS.  IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATION, EVEN BEFORE INDEPENDENCE, THE INDONESIAN YOUTH AND STUDENTS PLAYED PIVOTAL ROLE.  THEY PARTICIPATED IN EVERY IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE NATION COURSE OF HISTORY. THERE IS NO MAJOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA THAT HAS NOT INVOLVED THE YOUTH AND STUDENTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
STUDENT ACTIVISM WAS VERY MUCH ACTIVE IN 1970s, AND CONTINUED INTO THE 1980s AND 1990s; TAKING UP NATIONAL ISSUES LIKE CORRUPTION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY, AND LOCAL ISSUES, SUCH AS EVICTION OF PEOPLE FROM AREAS DESIGNATED FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND LABOR ISSUES RELATED TO THEIR AREA.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ALTHOUGH THE STUDENT MOVEMENTS MOST OF THE TIME WERE WIDELY SCATTERED, UNFOCUSED AND UN-COORDINATED AND WERE ISOLATED FROM BROAD POPULAR SUPPORT, THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL IN GALVANIZING THE SILENT MAJORITY TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT CURRENT POLITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING THE NATION.  UHLIN NOTES THAT THE STUDENT ACTIVISM OF THE LATE 1980S AND EARLY 1990S HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A RADICALIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION IN INDONESIA.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
RISE OF  THE MIDLE CLASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GAVE BIRTH TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. URBAN MIDDLE CLASS IS A PRODUCT OF WIDER AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. IN AGRARIAN INDONESIA THE NASCENT MIDDLE CLASS HAD GROWN IN NUMBER AND INFLUENCE WITH THE ADVANCE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
AT THAT STAGE THE INDONESIAN MIDDLE CLASS POLITICAL ATTITUDE WAS NOT NECESSARILY ANTIGOVERNMENT; IN FACT UNTIL THE END OF THE 1980S THE MAJORITY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS WHO OWED THEIR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT’S DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS BELIEVED IN THE GOVERNMENT’S DEVELOPMENT CREED AND STRONGLY FAVORED POLITICAL STABILITY.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IN COUNTRY AFTER COUNTRY THE RISING URBAN MIDDLE CLASS HAD BEEN THE FORCE OFMODERNIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION. IN THE PHILIPPINES, KOREA, THAILAND THEY HAD PLAYED CRUCIAL ROLE BEHIND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHEN THIS RESOURCEFUL BUT RATIONAL PART OF SOCIETY JOINED FORCES WITH THE DYNAMIC PART OF SOCIETY SUCH AS THE STUDENTS OR URBAN WORKERS, THE COMBINATION COULD BE EXPLOSIVE.  INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS HAD THUS SPELLED THE DIFFUSION OF POWER, AND THE EDUCATED MIDDLE CLASS TENDED TO BECOME INCREASINGLY VOCAL IN DEFENSE OF ITS INTERESTS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
BY THE MID-1990s THE INDONESIAN MIDDLE CLASS HAD REACHED THE “CRITICAL MASS” IN NUMBER AS WELL AS IN RESOURCES TO PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE AT POLITICAL CHANGE.  AND THEY HAD INCREASINGLY BECOME CRITICAL OF THE GOVERNMENT; THEIR WRITINGS, PLAYS AND DISCOURSES HAD PROVIDED FOR INTELLECTUAL INSPIRATION TOWARDS DEMOCRATIZATION. MANY OF THEM FORMED NGO’S THAT WERE ACTIVELY PROMOTING AGENDA OF REFORMS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY IN INDONESIA HAS HAD ONLY  RECENT HISTORY, SO THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE COUNTRY ’ S IMPORTANT POLITICAL EVENTS IS STILL MINIMAL. BUT WITH THE WEAKENING OF THE NEW ORDER GOVERNMENT IN THE WAKE OF ECONOMIC CRISIS, AND THE ONGOING PROCESS OF POLITICAL REFORMS AND DEMOCRATIZATION THAT IS GAINING MOMENTUM IN THE COUNTRY, THE ROLE OF THE NGO IS GROWING.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
INEQUALITY WHILE, AS MENTIONED ABOVE INDONESIA’S DEVELOPMENT HAD A WIDESPREAD EFFECT ON THE POPULATION IN GENERAL AS INDICATED BY DECLINING POVERTY INCIDENCES AND VARIOUS SOCIAL INDICATORS, THERE WAS GROWING AWARENESS OF THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN INCOME GROUPS, BETWEEN REGIONS, AND BETWEEN ETHNICS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PRAISE FOR THE NEW ORDER ACHIEVEMENT, MANY INDONESIAN SCHOLARS AND CRITICS NOTED THE LACK OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AS ONE OF THE MAJOR CRITICISM OF THE NEW ORDER. THEY ARGUED THAT THE INDONESIAN ECONOMIC SUCCESS HAD BENEFITED THE URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL SECTOR WHILE (RELATIVELY) MARGINALIZING THE RURAL AND TRADITIONAL SECTORS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IT IS POSSIBLE AN INCREASE IN THE POLARIZATION OF THE INCOME DISTRIBUTION OCCURRED IN INDONESIA AS THE ECONOMY GREW AND THAT THIS CONTRIBUTED TO THE PERSISTENT FEELING IN INDONESIA THAT THE MANY ECONOMIC REFORMS LED NOT TO AN IMPROVEMENT IN GENERAL WELFARE, BUT ONLY AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE WELFARE OF THE RICH. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
CORRUPTION DESPITE THE LIBERALIZATION MEASURES UNDERTAKEN IN RESPONSE TO THE WAVE OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE MID-1980S, CONTROL OF THE ECONOMY CONTINUED TO BE DIRECT, THROUGH MONOPOLIES IN KEY INDUSTRIES (ENERGY, PAPER, STEEL, COMMODITIES, TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS), OR THROUGH THE CREDIT-ALLOCATION POWERS OF FINANCIAL AGENCIES THAT WERE CONTROLLED BY OR PREJUDICED IN FAVOR OF PRIVILEGED AND POLITICALLY CONNECTED BUSINESS GROUPS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
PRIVATIZATION IN THE 1980s OFTEN MEANT THE TRANSFER OF INDUSTRIES FROM DIRECT STATE MONOPOLY TO HANDS THAT WERE ONLY NOMINALLY PRIVATE BUT REALLY HIGHLY DIVERSIFIED CONGLOMERATES WHO ENJOYED PROTECTION FROM OPEN COMPETITION AND GUARANTEED ACCESS TO STATE FUNDS AND FACILITIES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
MEANWHILE THE PRESIDENT’S FAMILY AND THE ECONOMIC CRONIES ALIGNED THEMSELVES TO PURSUE  POORLY CONCEIVED ECONOMIC PROGRAMS.  CORRUPTION HAD BECOME AN ISSUE AND HAD TAINTED THE GOVERNMENT’S CREDIBILITY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Source: Transparency international, (taken from haggard, 2000).  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
REGIONAL DISPARITY CENTRALIZED POWER AND UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH CREATED DISSATISFACTION AMONG PEOPLE IN THE OUTLYING REGIONS. WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INDUSTRIALIZATION, JAVA AND SOME PROVINCES PROGRESSED FASTER THAN THE REST OF THE REGIONS, ESPECIALLY THE EASTERN PART THE COUNTRY.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THESE PROVINCES, RICH IN NATURAL RESOURCES, WERE RESENTFUL OF THE RETURNS THAT THEY RECEIVED FROM THEIR REGIONS’ CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. THE WIDENING DISPARITY BETWEEN REGIONS WAS ANOTHER SOURCE OF CRITICISM AGAINST THE NEW ORDER.  TO A SIGNIFICANT EXTENT THIS PROBLEM STILL PERSISTS TODAY, AND IS ONE FACTOR DRIVING THE SOVEREIGNTY CONFLICTS IN ACEH AND PAPUA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ROLE OF THE MILITARY EVEN WITHIN THE MILITARY THERE WAS A GROWING UNEASINESS WITH THE UNFOLDING EVENTS. WHILE ACTIVE MILITARY OFFICERS TRUE TO THEIR SOLDIERS’ OATH REMAINED LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT, THERE WAS GROWING OPPOSITION AMONG THE RETIRED MILITARY OFFICERS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
SHIRAISHI (1999: 78) ARGUES THAT ALTHOUGH THE MILITARY REMAINED LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT TO THE LAST MINUTE, “THE STRUGGLE WITHIN THE UPPER ECHELONS OF THE MILITARY HAD A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL PROCESS AND ON EVENTS IN THE COUNTRY MORE GENERALLY.” NO LONGER COULD THE MILITARY BE COUNTED TO BE IN THE POSITION TO DEFEND THE REGIME AT ANY COST. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
POLITICAL ISLAM THE EMERGING ROLE OF ISLAM AS A FORCE OF CHANGE SHOULD ALSO NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED.  UHLIN (1997:82) AGUES THAT MANY INDONESIAN PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS ARE MORE THAN NOMINALLY MUSLIM AND THEY OFTEN USE ISLAMIC DISCOURSES TO MOTIVATE THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
LEADERSHIP CRISIS IN ADDITION TO HIGH LEVELS OF CORRUPTION, WHEN THE CRISIS HIT, THE LEADERSHIP HAD A LIMITED RESERVOIR OF POPULAR SUPPORT TO CALL UPON.  TWO FACTORS ARE NOTABLE. INDONESIA HAD, BY FAR, THE LONGEST-SERVING LEADER OF ANY OF THE COUNTRIES IMPACTED BY THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, AS WELL AS THE MOST CENTRALIZED DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHILE THE OTHER COUNTRIES IMPACTED BY THE CRISIS—THAILAND, SOUTH KOREA, AND MALAYSIA—HAD DEVELOPED AT LEAST PARTIALLY INCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS DURING THE 1980S AND 1990S, THE INDONESIAN STATE CONTINUED DOWN AN AUTHORITARIAN PATH, WITH REAL POWER CONTINUING TO BE CONCENTRATED IN THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY AND SELECTED CRONIES.  (WORLD BANK, 2006) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHILE IN BETTER TIMES THE REGIME HAD THE POWER TO CREATE AND ENFORCE MANY POLICIES ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY, WHEN COLLECTIVE NATIONAL SACRIFICE WAS NECESSARY THERE WERE FEW RESERVOIRS OF GOODWILL TO CALL UPON FROM A DISENFRANCHISED CITIZENRY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE CRACKS IN THE RANKS OF THE NEW ORDER HAD COME TO THE SURFACE, AS THE NEW ORDER SUPPORTERS WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THOSE IN THE MILITARY AND THE CABINET HAD GROWN ALIENATED BY THE WAY PRESIDENT SOEHARTO HANDLED THE CRISIS, AND BY HIS INABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE WEAKNESSES IN THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS AND THE URGENT NEED TO EMBARK ON REFORMS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE CATALYST MANY OF THE OPPOSING FORCES IDENTIFIED ABOVE WERE LONG PRESENT, ALBEIT LATENT IN THE UNDERCURRENT OF INDONESIAN POLITICS FOR YEARS.  BY THEMSELVES HOWEVER, THEY DID NOT PRESENT A SUFFICIENT CHALLENGE CAPABLE OF ENDING SUHARTO’S RULE. THE NEW ORDER’S CENTRALIZED POWER STRUCTURE AND CAREFUL CONTROL OF POLITICAL COMPETITION WOULD HAVE ENSURED THE SECURITY OF THE PRESIDENT POSITION.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS LED HUNTINGTON (1991) TO BELIEVE THAT CRISES PRODUCED BY EITHER RAPID GROWTH OR ECONOMIC RECESSION WEAKENED AUTHORITARIANISM.  IT WOULD, HOWEVER, STILL NEED A CATALYST TO QUICKEN THE PACE OF CHANGE.  THE ECONOMIC CRISIS WAS THE TRIGGER THAT WOULD SET THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE POLITICAL CHANGE.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
AND THE MUCH TOUTED AND INTERNATIONALLY PRAISED NEW ORDER DID FINALLY FALL.  MANY OBSERVERS AGREE THAT FOR PRESIDENT SUHARTO, WHO RESTED HIS CLAIM TO RULE ON HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER ECONOMIC GROWTH, THE ECONOMIC CRISIS DEEPLY UNDERMINED HIS LEGITIMACY AND LEFT HIM AFTER SO MANY YEARS IN POWER, AT LAST, VULNERABLE TO CREDIBLE CHALLENGE FOR POWER.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
CONCLUSION IN CONCLUSION, THE EXCEPTIONAL SEVERITY OF THE INDONESIAN CRISIS WAS A REFLECTION OF THE CONFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISES, AND IT SERVES TO ILLUSTRATE WELL HOW ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FORCES CAN REINFORCE EACH OTHER IN TIME OF CRISIS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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INDONESIA IS EMERGING FROM LONG PERIOD OF AUTHORITARIAN RULE TO CONSOLIDATE ITS STATUS AS THE THIRD  LARGEST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
INDONESIA REMAINS VULNERABLE TO EXTERNAL SHOCKS SUCH AS THE CURRENT GLOBAL DOWNTURN.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHAT INDONESIA HAS ACHIEVED, SINCE THE 1998 CRISIS, IN TERMS OF MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL STABILITY IS TRULY REMARKABLE…  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
In 2005 per-capita real GDP for the first time exceeded the high that had been reached in 1997, before the peak of the crisis. … .and, in 2007, growth accelerated to 10 year high of 6.3%, despite a slowing global economy. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 2008 (f) 16% 12% 8% 4% 0% -4% -8% -12% -16% 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 85 80 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003   2004 2005 2006 2007   Real GDP Growth rate (LHS) GDP per capita Index (RHS) 4.7% -13.1% 0.8% 5.4% 3.8% 4.4% 4.7% 5.0% 5.7% 5.5% 6.3% 6.1%
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TRANSITION INITIALLY TUMULTOUS BUT A GROWING SENSE OF STABILITY AS THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS HAS DEEPENED AND ACHIEVED WIDER ACCEPTANCE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS MANDATING DIRECT ELECTIONS TO ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT HAVE CREATED GREATER ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN 2004, INDONESIA CONDUCTED ITS FIRST EVER DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND ITS THIRD PEACEFUL PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION SINCE THE CRISIS IN 2009, THE SECOND GENERAL AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HAVE CONSOLIDATED INDONESIA’S DEMOCRACY A PROFOUND AND REMARKABLY STABLE POLITICAL TRANSITION FROM A CENTRALIZED AUTHORITARIAN REGIME TO A DECENTRALIZED DEMOCRATIC POLITY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ALTHOUGH INDONESIA HAS NOT BEEN ON "THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY," FOR LONG, THERE IS MUCH THAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. THE DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS IN INDONESIA, ALTHOUGH TRIGGERED BY THE 1997/1998 ECONOMIC CRISIS, HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN RELATIVELY PEACEFULLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE REFORM OF THE CONSTITUTION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
AMONG THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION SEVERAL STAND OUT AS MOST SIGNIFICANT SUCH AS IMPROVEMENT OF CHECKS AND BALANCES SYSTEM, DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL AND REGIONAL EXECUTIVES ELECTIONS, LEGAL REFORM AND DECENTRALIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, BIGGER ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DECADE MAKES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Issue 1998 2008 Presidential selection Selected indirectly by the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) every five years Directly elected through universal suffrage every five years National parliament  Unicameral legislature 500 members, with 20 percent of seats reserved for the military (reduced to 15 percent in 1995). Dominated by Golkar. Bicameral legislature (DPR and DPD). DPR members (550) elected directly in multi-member constituencies through proportional representation. Each province elects four members to the national DPD, for total of 128 members. Political parties Only three parties legally allowed to contest elections—Golkar, the United Development Party (PPP), Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI). 24 parties competed in the 2004 general election, and five parties put up serious parties for the presidency. Presidential-legislative relations De facto, a rubber stamp body for the president’s policy decisions. The president’s party (the Democrat Party, PD) holds only 56 of 550 seats in DPR.  DPR is now a serious check on presidential authority.
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Issue  1998 2008 Role of military Reserved seats at all three levels of parliament. About 6,000 military staff seconded to government positions (as of 1995). Territorial command system enables military self-financing. No reserved seats in parliament Provincial and district executives Appointed by Ministry of Home Affairs (under tight supervision of the president).  Directly elected. Provincial and district legislatures Only three parties legally allowed to contest elections. 15 percent of seats reserved for the military. Dominated by Golkar. Directly elected in multi-member constituencies in a proportional representation system.  Civil society Tight restrictions on the press and NGOs.  Free press and proliferation of NGOs.
May 1998-October 1999 Accountability Speech Rejected Declined to run for President August 1945 - March 1968 Elected by the PPKI Impeached by MPRS October 1999 – July 2001 Elected by MPR Impeached by MPR Sukarno B.J. Habibie Abdurrahman Wahid October 2004 – 2009 Directly elected Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono July 2001  –  October 2004 Elected by MPR  Lost election to SBY Megawati March 1968 - May 1998 Elected by MPRS Resigned under pressure Suharto REELECTED 2009-2014 Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Reform Multi Party Freedom of Speech Human Rights Rule of Law Good Governance 1999 Election 2004 Election Democratic Government International Acknowledgement Strong  Parliament Constitutional  Court Robust Civil  Society Free Press Early Stage of Economic Recovery Regional Autonomy Peace in Aceh Papua Constitutional Amendments Return of Poverty Reduction Fall of New Order Decentralization Release of Political Prisoners Fight Against Corruption Return of Growth Return of Economic Stability Early Stage of Economic Recovery Foundation for Sustainable Economic Growth Independence of Monetary Authority Dismantling Monopolies Free and Fair Competition Good Corporate Governance Reversed Economic Downturn Political Economic Habibie Gus Dur Megawati SBY
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BY 2008 INDONESIA’S ECONOMY WAS STABLE AND DYNAMIC. BUT IT REMAINED VULNERABLE TO EXTERNAL SHOCKS SUCH AS THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHAT IT HAS MEANT AND IS LIKELY TO MEAN FOR INDONESIA'S ECONOMIC  PROSPECTS DECLINING OECD IMPORTS IMPLY LOWER INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION PARTICULARLY IN EXPORT-ORIENTED MANUFACTURING PLUNGING COMMODITY PRICES IMPLY LOWER EXPORT PRICES, REVERSING RECENT TERMS OF TRADE GAINS ...BUT LOWER INFLATION AS WELL ...TRANSLATING INTO LOWER GROWTH PROSPECTS ...HEIGHTENED RISK OF DISRUPTIVE CAPITAL OUTFLOWS AND ASSOCIATED BOP PRESSURES ...AND WORSE POVERTY AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES THAN MIGHT HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN ACHIEVABLE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
…  IMPLIES LOWER GROWTH FOR INDONESIA IN THE SHORT-RUN. …  AND NEGATIVE EXPORT GROWTH… Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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Exports value contracted  by  28 percent  (y o y), the worst contraction ever since 2000. Signs of recovery, exports value bounced back by 17 percent in the 2 nd  quarter 2009 (q o q) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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Indonesia Export Ratio is low, ....so do FDI Institutional reform such as Inpres 5/2008, together with other programs such as improvement in education sector expenditure, are some efforts to promote Indonesia competitiveness in the global market Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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ALREADY AMONG THE 20 LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD (G-20) MEDIUM TO HIGH ECONOMIC GROWTH PROJECTION  SOON TO JOIN BRIC AS BRIIC Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com TARGET ECONOMIC GROWTH 6.3 – 6.8% *7% BY 2014 UNEMPLOYMENT 5-6% POVERTY 8-10% INFLATION 4-6 %
ACCELERATING GROWTH MAKING GROWTH INCLUSIVE ENSURING GROWTH IS SUSTAINABLE BUILDING RESILIENCY CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACY AND STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
MAKING THE MOST OF INDONESIA'S RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS ...WHILE DEVELOPING GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE CLUSTERS ELSEWHERE ...BY RELIEVING INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECKS ...AND REMEDYING WEAKNESSES AND INCONSISTENCIES AND REDUCING UNCERTAINTY IN THE REGULATORY AND POLICY ENVIRONMENT THE CHALLENGES... Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Indonesia has the potential to achieve the rates of growth it achieved prior to the crisis THE POTENTIAL Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
MAKING THE MOST OF INDONESIA’S RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS... Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 100 100 50 60 40 20 40 20 60 80 Note: Size of bubble indicates amount of spending (US$ 20 million) Low High Mineral potential index (Prospectively) Australia Canada USA Brazil Chile Peru South Africa Indonesia
OIL EXPLORATION ACTIVITY HAS DECLINED STEADILY SINCE 2000 Sources : Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 0 20 40 60 80 2000 2001 2002 2003   2004 2005 100 120 Oil discovered 2006 2007 No. of exploratory wells drilled
...AND DEVELOPING GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE CLUSTERS Developing globally competitive clusters hinges on a process of "export discovery"-identifying new areas of competitive advantage which Indonesia has not been very successful at in the last decade ...though there are a few promising cases, for Instance, transport related equipment (e.g. automotive components), exports of which have been growing rapidly (37% in 2007) Facilitating the market-led development of other such globally competitive clusters Is needed to accelerate growth Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Products that were "undiscovered" In 1997 Products "discovered"  between 1997 and 2001 Year Share of all exports Share of all exports Share of mfg. exports 1997 0.00% 2001 0.29% 1.17% 1.65% 2007 1.26% 3.12% 6.05%
… BY RELIEVING INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECK Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Infrastructure indicator Indonesia’s performance Indonesia’s rank In EAP Electrification (% of households) 53 11th out of 12 Fixed telephone lines (per 1000 people) 47 10th out of 12 Mobile phones (per 1000 inhabitant) 146 9th out of 12 Access to improved sanitation (% of population) 55 8th out of 12 Access to improved water (% of population) 78 7th out of 12 Road network (kms. Per 1000 people) 1.7 6th out of 12 WEF Global competitiveness Report Infrastructure Index 2.74 (out of 7) 5th out of 12
… BY RELIEVING INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECK Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003   2004 2005 0 2 4 6 8 6.1 4.5 3.7 2.1 2.8 3.0 3.6 3.2 3.2 Infrastructure Investment (% of GDP)
SOME REAL MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN PUBLIC SECTOR SPENDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE HAS GROWN ESPECIALLY RECENTLY AND A NEW REGULATORY FRAMEWORK PUT IN PLACE THE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE INFRASTRUCTURE A PRIORITY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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… BY REDUCING REGULATORY UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE. A RENEWED LAW ON INVESTMENT PROVIDING EQUAL TREATMENT TO FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INVESTMENT. ECONOMIC POLICY PACKAGES COVERING INVESTMENT CLIMATE, INFRASTRUCTURE, FINANCIAL SECTORS REFORMS IN EACH OF THE LAST THREE YEARS. GOVERNMENT HAS MADE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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Sectoral Contribution to GDP Growth (Sectoral Growth – weight by sector’s share in value  added ) Sectoral Contribution to Labor Income Growth (Sectoral growth – weighted by sector’s labor intensity) EVEN WHEN PRIMARY SECTORS CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICES CONTRIBUTED MOST TO LABOR INCOME GROWTH  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Per-worker productivity in Indonesia is low, regardless of sector and not increasing very rapidly RAISING THE RETURNS TO THE MAIN ASSET OF THE POOR-THEIR LABOR Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
… while the movement of workers out of agriculture, the lowest productivity sectors, has stalled in Indonesia since the crisis FACILITATING THE TRANSFER OF WORKERS OUT OF LOW-PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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MDGs: Goals  for education sector have been accomplished and already  on  the right  track  for 2015 . Challenge :  how to utilize bigger amount of budget to promote human resource quality . IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WORKING TOWARDS A GREENER INDONESIA BY MAKING GROWTH MORE SUSTAINABLE THROUGH BETTER MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT MANAGING INDONESIA'S FORESTRY AND MARINE RESOURCES SUSTAINABLE WHILE PROVIDING ADEQUATE LIVELIHOODS MEETING INDONESIA'S ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS ENVIRONMENT MAKING INDONESIA'S EXPANDING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS LIVABLE GROWTH POLES THE CHALLENGES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
INDONESIA'S CURRENT LEVEL OF ENERGY USE IS RELATIVELY LOW BUT IS GROWING RAPIDLY MEETING INDONESIA'S ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS ENVIRONMENT: IDENTIFYING INNOVATIVE-TARIFF MECHANISMS TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR EFFICIENT ENERGY USE PROMOTING CLEANER TECHNOLOGIES FOR FOSSIL-FUEL BASED POWER GENERATION  SHIFTING, GRADUALLY, TO INCREASED RELIANCE ON INDONESIA'S CONSIDERABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES MEETING INDONESIA'S ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS ENVIRONMENT Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
INDONESIA’S ENERGY SOURCES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Major Islands Coal (MTOE) Natural gas (MTOE) Oil (MTOE)  Geothermal (MWI) Hydroelectric (MW) Biomass (MW) Java 6 165 67 3086 54 13,622 Bali - - - 226 20 347 Sumatra 13,558 425 1,551 5,433 5,489 6,433 Kalimantan 5,885 1,180 200 - 6,047 6,231 Sulawesi 20 24 - 721 4,479 5,337 Nusa Tenggara - - - 645 292 1,174 Maluku - - 1 142 217 1,093 Papua 64 24 2 24,974 6,814 TOTAL 19,533 1,817 1,822 10.027 41,436 41,661
MAKING INDONESIA 'S URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS LIVABLE GROWTH POLES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Past and Projected Increases in  Urban Populations in Selected Countries Country or Region (Millions) (% Increase) 1995-2005 2005-2015 2015-2025 1995-2005 2005-2015 2015-2025 China 150.1 152.8 138.7 39.4 28.8 20.3 India 71.8 90.0 122.4 28.3 27.7 29.5 Indonesia 38.6 38.4 31.5 55.1 35.3 21.4 Korea 3.5 2.1 1 .0 9.8 5.5 2.4 Malaysia 5.9 5.4 4.4 51.2 31.2 19.5 Philippines 16.0 17.3 16.1 43.1 32.6 22.9 Southeast Asia 75.9 81 .0 76.3 44.7 32.9 23.3 Thailand 2.9 3.8 4.9 16.9 18.6 20.4 Vietnam 6.2 8.0 10.0 37.9 35.6 33.0
INDONESIA'S URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS HAVE GROWN RAPIDLY IN TERMS OF POPULATION...  … BUT HAVE YET TO FULLY REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AS GROWTH POLES URGENT INVESTMENTS NEEDED IN INFRASTRUCTURE, MASS TRANSIT ESPECIALLY MASS TRANSIT AND ROADS... ...AND IN MEETING THE DEMAND FOR SERVICES, ESPECIALLY WATER AND SANITATION FROM GROWING URBAN POPULATIONS, INCLUDING EXPANDING INFORMAL SLUM SETTLEMENTS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' CAPACITY TO IMPROVE SERVICES IS STILL INHIBITED BY OVER-RELIANCE ON FUNDING BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT... ...AND SPATIAL PLANNING SUFFERS FROM INADEQUATE VERTICAL INTEGRATION BETWEEN AGENCIES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
RAPID GROWTH IS URBAN BASED—DECOMPOSITION OF GROWTH RATES FOR THE FAST-GROWING ECONOMIES: VARIOUS PERIODS In all cases of sustained high growth (7 percent or more sustained over 25 years or more), it is production in urban areas—that is manufacturing and services—that led the growth Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 0 -2 -4 -6 8 6 4 2 10 12 Growth (%) Botswana Brazil China Hong Kong, China Indonesia Japan Korea, Rep of Malaysia Oman Singapore Taiwan, China Thailand agriculture manufacturing service
MAKING INDONESIA MORE RESILIENT BY BETTER PLANNING FOR AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND STRENGTHENING THE INSTITUTIONS AND CAPACITY FOR PLANNING FOR MANAGING DISASTERS DESIGNING SOCIAL PROTECTION SCHEMES THAT BUFFER THE POPULATION FROM THE ADVERSE IMPACT OF SHOCK  ENHANCING THE CAPACITY OF AND COORDINATION MECHANISM AMONG FINANCIAL SECTOR REGULATORY AND SUPERVISION INSTITUTION TO DEAL WITH SYSTEMIC SHOCKS FROM EITHER EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL RESOURCES THE CHALLENGE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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WHILE CITIZENS ARE FREE TO DEMONSTRATE AND THE PRESS IS FREE TO WRITE WHAT THEY WANT, MANY CITIZENS ARE STILL SUBJECT TO ARBITRARY DECISIONS AND/OR RENT-SEEKING BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, THE POLICE AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM (WORLD BANK, 2004).  IT IS STILL COMMON FOR CITIZENS TO BE REQUIRED TO PAY BRIBES IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE PERMITS AND SETTLE LEGAL DISPUTES, FOR EXAMPLE (WORLD BANK, 2006).  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IN THE POST-TRANSITION PERIOD THE INDONESIAN POLITY HAS TO GRAPPLE WITH THREE KEY ISSUES IN CONSOLIDATING ITS NASCENT DEMOCRACY: HOW BEST TO STRENGTHEN THE POLITICAL CULTURE, DEEPEN DEMOCRACY, AND ENHANCE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION. HOW TO ESTABLISH AND IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNANCE UNDER THE DEMOCRATIC REGIME. HOW TO RESTORE GROWTH, ALLEVATE POVERTY AND MEET OTHER ECONOMIC CHALLENGES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
RELATIVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STABILITY HAS BEEN MAINTAINED AND THE COUNTRY HAS UNDERTAKEN DEMOCRATIC GENERAL ELECTIONS IN 1999, 2004 AGAIN IN 2009, UNDER THE AMMENDED CONSTITUTION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
HOWEVER, AS NOTED BY THE WORLD BANK, HAVING SHIFTED FROM BEING A ‘ DEVELOPMENT STATE ’ TO A ‘ DEMOCRATIC STATE ’, INDONESIA FACES MANY CHALLENGES THAT ARE COMMON TO TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES.  WHILE A LARGE MAJORITY OF INDONESIANS POLLED RECENTLY SAID THAT THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF THE CURRENT DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM, THERE IS ALSO WIDESPREAD FRUSTRATION WITH ONGOING CORRUPTION, WEAK FORMAL SECTOR JOB GROWTH AND A SENSE THAT THE POSSIBILITIES INHERENT IN A DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION HAVE NOT BEEN FULLY REALIZED (ROBISON AND HADIZ, 2004).  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNMENT IN THIS  PROCESS OF CHANGE IS FAR FROM EASY OR STRAIGHTFORWARD .  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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HOWEVER, SEVERAL OF THE RECENT CHANGES ARE NOTABLE: IMPROVEMENTS IN VOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REFLECT THE IMPACTS OF THE POST-CRISIS UPHEAVAL, WITH THE SUBSEQUENT EMERGENCE OF A DEMOCRATIC, DECENTRALIZED INDONESIA AND THE RETURN OF POLITICAL STABILITY FOLLOWING A FREE-AND-FAIR ELECTION PROCESS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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A POLITICAL SURPRISE WITH THE EMERGENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE PARTY FOUNDED BY SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO TO TAKE PART IN 2004 ELECTION, CAME OUT AS THE WINNER FOLLOWED BY GOLKAR PARTY THE WINNER OF 2004 ELECTION  AND PDIP THE WINNER OF 1999 ELECTION Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
GOLONGAN KARYA  (GOLKAR) PARTY WAS THE RULING PARTY UNDER THE NEW ORDER REGIME, AND  PARTAI DEMOKRASI INDONESIA  –  PERJUANGAN  (PDIP) OR THE INDONESIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (‘P’ STAND FOR P ERJUANGAN  OR STRUGGLE) WAS FOUNDED BY MEGAWATI IN THE 1990s AS A VEHICLE OF REFORM AGENDA DURING THE NEW ORDER Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
DURING THE NEW ORDER ONLY 3 PARTIES WERE ALLOWED TO EXIST: GOLONGAN KARYA (FUNCTIONAL GROUP) PARTAI PERSATUAN PEMBANGUNAN (UNITED DEVELOPMENT PARTY) : FUSSION OF PRE-NEW ORDER ISLAMIC PARTIES PARTAI DEMOKRASI INDONESIA (INDONESIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY): FUSSION OF PRE-NEW ORDER NATIONALIST AND CHRISTIAN PARTIES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
WHEN MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRI WAS ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN OF PDI (INDONESIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY), THE NEW ORDER GOVERNMENT DID NOT RECOGNIZE HER VICTORY AND INSTEAD  SUPPORTED HER RIVAL TO HOLD ANOTHER PARTY CONGRES AND NULIFIED THE EARLIER PARTY CONGRES DECISSION SO SHE ESTABLISHED HER OWN PARTY ADDING  PERJUANGAN  OR STRUGGLE HER PARTY WAS NOT RECOGNIZED, BUT AFTER THE FALL OF THE NEW ORDER, SHE PARTICIPATED IN THE 1999 ELECTION AND CAME OUT AS THE WINNER Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE SIGNIFICANT OF THE 2009, ASIDE FROM THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, WAS THE EMERGENCE OF TWO NEW NATIONALIST ORIENTAD PARTIES: Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com GERINDRA: HANURA: FOUNDED BY PRABOWO SUBIANTO, RETIRED LT GENERAL, FORMER HEAD OF THE ARMY SPECIAL  FORCES AND SON IN-LAW OF SUHARTO FOUNDED BY RETIRED GENERAL WIRANTO, FORMER COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES AND ADC TO PRESIDENT SUHARTO
THE OTHER SIGNIFICANCE WAS THE RISE OF WELFARE JUSTICE PARTY (PKS)  THE MODERN BUT HIGHLY DOCTRINAL ISLAMIC PARTY THIS PARTY WAS SUPPORTED BY SCHOLARS, ACADEMICIANS, AND STUDENTS, WITH ISLAMIC LEANINGS, WHOSE PLATFORM WAS REFORM AND CLEAN GOVERNMENT THIS PARTY ALSO EMERGED AS WINNER IN SOME LOCAL ELECTIONS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
IN GENERAL, HOWEVER THE MAKE UP OF NATIONALIST – ISLAMIC PARTIES BALANCE IN INDONESIA HAS NOT CHANGED IN INDONESIA’S POLITICAL HISTORY ISLAMIC PARTIES HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO REACH A TOTAL NUMBER OF MORE THAN 40% OF VOTES OR SEATS  PARLIAMENT, EXCEPT IN THE FIRST ELECTION EVER HELD IN INDONESIA IN 1955 WHEN IT REACHED 44% ALTHOUGH 85% OF INDONESIA’S POPULATION IS MUSLIM Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
* In 1999: the party’s name was  Partai Keadilan  (Justice Party) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com PARTY SEATS IN PARLIAMENT 2009 2004 1999 DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PD) 148 57 - FUNCTIONAL GROUP PARTY (GOLKAR) 107 128 120 INDONESIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY – STRUGGLE (PDI-P) 93 109 153 JUSTICE WELFARE PARTY (PKS)* 57 45 7 NATIONAL MESSAGE PARTY (PAN) 46 52 34 UNITED DEVELOP PARTY (PPP) 38 58 56 NATION AWAKENING PARTY (PKB) 28 52 51 GREAT INDONESIA MOVEMENT PARTY (GERINDRA) 25 - - PEOPLE CONSCIENCE PARTY (HANURA) 18 - - OTHER PARTIES - 49 41 TOTAL 560 550 462
THE NATIONALIST AND ISLAMICS PARTIES BALANCE IN INDONESIA’S DEMOCRATIC ELECTION (PERCENTAGES OF VALID VOTES) *) THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDONESIA (PKI) WAS STILL IN EXISTENCE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 1955 1999 2004 2005 Islamic parties 6 of 29  Parties: 44,01% 13 of 48 Parties: 28% 8 of 42  Parties: 38,99% 11 of 38 Parties: 29,3% Nationalist/non Islamic parties*) 23 of 29 Parties: 55,99% 35 of 48 Parties: 72% 16 of 24 Parties: 61,01% 27 of 38 Parties: 70,7%
Graduate School of Asia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Boediono Megawati Prabowo Jusuf Kalla Wiranto
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com NO CANDIDATES VOTES PERCENTAGE 1 MEGAWATI-PRABOWO 32.548.105 26.79% 2 SBY-BOEDIONO 73.874.562 60.80% 3 JK-WIRANTO 15.081.814 12.41% TOTAL 121.504.481 100,00% STATISTICS VALID VOTES 121.504.581 NOT VALID VOTES 6.479.174 TOTAL VOTER 127.983.655 TOTAL VOTERS 176.441.434
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com RANKING CANDIDATES VOTES PERCENTAGE 1 SBY-JUSUF KALLA 36.070.622 33.58% 2 MEGAWATI-HASYIM M. 28.186.780 26.24% 3 WIRANTO-SOLLAHUDIN W. 23.827.512 22.19% 4 AMIEN RAIS-SISWONO Y.H. 16.042.105 14.94% 5 HAMZAH H.-AGUM 3.276.001 3.05 TOTAL 107.403.020 100,00%
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com RANKING CANDIDATES VOTES PERCENTAGE 1 SBY-JUSUF KALLA 69.266.350 60.62% 2 MEGAWATI-HASYIM M. 44.990.704 39.98% TOTAL 114.257.054 100,00% STATISTICS VALID VOTES 114.403.020 NOT VALID VOTES 2.405.651 TOTAL VOTES 116.662.705
PD – GOLKAR* – PKS – PAN – PPP – PKB = 424 SEATS “ OPPOSITION” PARTIES PDIP – HANURA – GERINDRA = 136 SEATS  GOLKAR WAS NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL COALITION PARTIES.  ON OCTOBER 6, 2009, THE GOLKAR PARTY CONGRESS ELECTED ABURIZAL BAKRIE, COORDINATING MINISTER OF PEOPLE’S WELFARE IN SBY I CABINET. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP GOLKAR JOINED THE GOVERNMENT “COALITION”  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
SBY COMPOSED HIS CABINET WITH MINISTRIES FROM POLITICAL PARTIES AS WELL AS PROFFESIONALS THE POLITICAL PARTIES WERE GIVEN POSTS IN THE CABINET REFLECTING THEIR STRENGTH IN THE PARLIAMENT Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com NUMBER POST MINISTRIES PERCENTAGE POLITICAL PARTIES 22 64,71 PROFFESIONALS 12 35,29 TOTAL 34 100
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com NO DEPT MINISTER PARTY 1 COORDINATING MINISTER FOR POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS DJOKO SUYANTO PD 2 STATE SECRETARY SUDI  SILALAHI PD 3 ENERGY AND  MINERAL RESOURCES DARWIN ZAHEDY PD 4 YOUTH AND SPORT ANDI MALLARANGENG PD 5 COOPERATIVES AND SMI SYARIFUDDIN HASAN PD 6 CULTURE AND TOURISM JERO WACIK PD 7 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM EE MANGINDAAN PD 8 TRANSPORTATION FREDDY NUMBERI PD 9 COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TIFATUL SEMBIRING PKS 10 RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY SUHARNA SURAPRANATA PKS
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com NO DEPT MINISTER PARTY 11 AGRICULTURE SUSWONO PKS 12 SOCIAL AFFAIRS SALIM SEGAF ALJUFRI PKS 13 COORDINATING MINISTER FOR ECONOMY HATTA RAJASA PAN 14 LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS PATRIALIS AKBAR PAN 15 FORESTRY ZULKIFLI HASAN PAN 16 COORDINATING MINISTER FOR  PEOPLE’S WELFARE AGUNG LAKSONO GOLKAR 17 INDUSTRY MS HIDAYAT GOLKAR 18 MARINE RESOURCES AND FISHERIES FADEL MUHAMMAD GOLKAR 19 RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS SURYADHARMA ALI PPP 20 PEOPLE’S HOUSING SUHARSO MONOARFA PPP 21 LABOR AND TRANSMIGRATION MUHAIMIN ISKANDAR PKB 22 POOR VILLAGES DEVELOPMENT HELMI FAISHAL ZAINI PKB
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com NO DEPT MINISTER BACKGROUND 1 HOME AFFAIRS GAMAWAN FAUZI BUREAUCRAT 2 FOREIGN AFFAIRS MARTY NATALEGAWA CARRIER DIPLOMAT 3 DEFENSE PURNOMO YUSGIANTORO BUREAUCRAT 4 FINANCE SRI MULYANI PROFESSOR 5 TRADE MARI ELKA PANGESTU PROFESSOR 6 PUBLIC WORKS DJOKO KIRMANTO BUREAUCRAT 7 TRANSPORTATION FREDDY NUMBERI VICEB ADMIRAL (Ret) 8 HEALTH ENDANG RAHAYU PROFESSOR 9 EDUCATION MOHAMMAD NUH PROFESSOR
Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com N0 DEPT MINISTER BACKGROUND 10 ENVIRONTMENT GUSTI MUHAMMAD HATTA PROFESSOR 11 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT LINDA AMALIA SARI CIVIL SOCIETY 12 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ARMIDA ALISJAHBANA PROFESSOR 13 STATE ENTERPRISES MUSTAFA ABUBAKAR BUREAUCRAT
WITH SUCH A HUGE MARGIN OF VOTERS, SBY HAS A CLEAR MANDATE FROM THE PEOPLE FOR HIS SECOND TERM HE SET OUT WITH AN AGENDA FOR HIS FIRST 100 DAYS, TO DESIGN THE PROGRAMMES AND SET THE PACE  FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEAR Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE FIRST SBY PRESIDENCY HAD TO FACE A TREMENDOUS CHALENGE JUST WEEKS AFTER ITS INAGURATION IN OCTOBER 2004 THE ACEH AND NORTH SUMATERA TSUNAMI IN DECEMBER HAD TAKEN THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 THOUSANDS PEOPLE, DESTROYED CITIES AND TOWNS, ROADS, HARBOURS, HOUSES, BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS, FACTORIES, SHOPS AND RICE FIELD IT TOOK BILLIONS OF DOLLAR INTERNATIONAL AND COOPERATION TO RECOVER Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE SECOND SBY ADMINISTRATION HAD TO FACE  SERIOUS  SCANDALS, ALSO IN ITS FIRST WEEKS THE LIZARD  - CROCODILE CASE THE CENTURY BANK CASE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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THE LIZARD – CROCODILE CASE, INVOLVED THE COMMISSION FOR CORUPTION ERADICATION ( KOMISI PEMBERANTASAN KORUPSI-KPK ) REPRESENTED BY LIZARD, AGAINST THE POLICE REPRESENTED BY CROCODILE. THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO CRIMINALIZE TWO MEMBER OF KPK, FOR TAPPING THE PHONE OF A HIGH RANKING POLICE OFFICER, SUSPECT IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION THERE WAS A PUBLIC CRY AND STREET DEMONSTRATIONS BY STUDENTS, AND ALMOST ONE MILLION FACEBOOKERS Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
EVENTUALLY THE PRESIDENT UNDER ADVICE OF A TEAM (TEAM 8), WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED TO FIND THE TRUTH IN THE CASE, TO REINSTATE THE TWO MEMBERS OF KPK AND FIRED THE VICE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND HEAD OF THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE POLICE WHO WERE SUSPECTED TO BE INVOLVE THE SCANDAL IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE VIRTUAL PEOPLE’S POWER HAD INFLUENCED POLICY DECISSION OF THE GOVERNMENT Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
Graduate School of Asia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
THE CENTURY BANK CASE ORIGINATED IN THE 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS. INITIALLY IT WAS A RESPONSE OF THE GOVERNMENT TO A SMALL BANK HAVING DIFFICULTY IN MAINTAINING ITS SOLUENCY THE GOVERNMENT WAS CONVINCED THAT IT WAS CAUSED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND IF IT WAS NOT DEAL WITH IMMEDIATELY IT COULD TURN INTO A SYSTEMIC BANKING FAILURE, REMINISCENT OF THE 1998 FINANCIAL CRISIS Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ALTHOUGH ORIGINALLY THE BANK NEEDED ONLY ABOUT EQUIVALENT OF $60 MILLION OF CASH INJECTION, THE SUPPORT OR BAIL OUT HAD RISEN TO MORE THAN $600 MILLION. THE SUPREME AUDIT BOARD (BADAN PEMERIKSA KEUANGAN-BPK) CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION AND DETERMINED THAT THERE WERE MORAL HAZARD INVOLVED AND LAW VIOLATIONS.  Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE BANK WAS WEAK AND FULL OF FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES FROM THE BEGINNING. ITS OWNERS HAD BEEN SYPHONING THE BANK MONEY FOR SOMETIME THE BAIL OUT CREATED PUBLIC OUTCRY, PROMPTING THE PARLIAMENT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE THE KPK ALSO HAS STARTED TO LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF CRIMINAL ACTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE GOVERNMENT HOWEVER MAINTAINED THAT IT WAS A COURSE THAT COULD NOT BE AVOIDED TO PREVENT A SYSTEMIC BANKING GRISIS. MANY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD ALSO TOOK SIMILAR MEASURES, BAILING OUT FAILING BANKS AND FINANCIAL  INSTITUTIONS TO PREVENT THE COLLAPSE  OF THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
ONE ASPECT OF THE CASE WAS THE LEGAL BASE FOR THE BAIL OUT.  AT THE ONSET OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN 2008 THE GOVERNMENT ISSUED A GOVERNMENT REGULATION IN LIEU OF LAW ( PERATURAN PEMERINTAH PENGGANTI UNDANG-UNDANG- PERPU ) THAT EMPOWERED THE MINISTER OF FINANCE TO TAKE THE NECESARRY ACTION TO COPE WITH  THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. ANY POLICY TAKEN IN THAT CONTEXT CAN NOT BE CRIMINALIZED.  BUT THE GOVERNMENT REGULATION IN LIEU OF LAW HAD TO BE APPROVED BY THE PARLIAMENT IN THE NEXT SESSION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
THE PARLIAMENT HOWEVER TURNED IT DOWN. THEREFORE  ASIDE FROM THE IRREGULARITIES  AND FRAUD FOUND IN THE BANK’S FINANCES, THE LEGALITY OF THE BAIL OUT AFTER THE PARLIAMENT REJECTED IT WAS BEING QUESTIONING. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
SO THE GOVERNMENT RESORTED TO USING  ANOTHER LAW, THE LAW OF CREDIT INSURANCE TO JUSTIFY THE MEASURE. HOWEVER THE LEGALITY IS STILL BEING DEBATED. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
BECAUSE OF THE PUBLIC CONTROVERSY OF THE TWO CASES IN ITS FIRST 100 DAYS, SBY II GOVERNMENT HAD TO DIVERT A LOT OF ENERGY TO CONTAIN THE CASE FROM GETTING INTO A FULL BLOWN POLITICAL CRISIS IF SBY II GOVERNMENT CAN OVERCOME THE CRISIS AND CAN  RETURN TO DEVOTE TIME, EVERGY AND RESOURCES TO DEALING WITH THE AFFAIRS OF STATE, WITH ITS BIG MANDATE INDONESIA CAN WELL CONTINUE ITS COURSE IN IMPROVING THE WALFARE OF THE PEOPLE WHILE CONSOLIDATING ITS DEMOCRACY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com

From Development To Democracy

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    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE
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    a country of240 million (as of 2008). an archipelago strung 5000 kilometers along the equator. more than 13,000 islands, 5,000 are inhabited. more than 200 ethnic groups and 350 languages and dialects. 85 to 90% are Muslims. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com Old Order 1965/ 1966 Chaos New Order Economic Miss-management Political Instability Communist Vs Non Communist Confrontation International Conflicts Development Political Stability Economic Growth Equity Globalization of Ideas Political Opposition Fragile Economic Structure 1998 Crisis Reform Democratization 2008 Crisis Global Financial Meltdown Political Economic Impact Response
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    THE 1997 ASIANFINANCIAL CRISIS AFFECTED A NUMBER OF THE SO-CALLED ASIAN TIGERS BUT RESERVED ITS STRONGEST, AND MOST LASTING, IMPACT FOR INDONESIA. THAT COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC IMPLOSION CAUGHT OBSERVERS AND ANALYSTS BY SURPRISE BECAUSE FEW THOUGHT THAT THE INDONESIAN ECONOMY WAS PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE TO A FINANCIAL COLLAPSE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    ADMITTEDLY, INDONESIA’S ECONOMICPERFORMANCE DID NOT MATCH THAT OF THE EARLY EAST ASIAN DEVELOPERS SUCH AS SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, TAIWAN AND ESPECIALLY KOREA, BUT ITS ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS, PARTICULARLY IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE 1980S AND THROUGH THE EARLY 1990S, EARNED INDONESIA INCREASING RESPECT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY . Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    INDEED, DURING THEPERIOD FROM MID-1985, WHEN A NUMBER OF MAJOR POLICY REFORMS WERE PUT INTO PLACE, TO MID-1997, WHEN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS TOOK ITS TOLL, INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE SUGGESTED THAT IT WAS WELL ON ITS WAY TO JOINING THE RANKS OF THE “ASIAN TIGERS.” INDONESIA’S REAL GDP/CAPITA INCOME, GREW AT A RATE THAT MATCHED THAT OF THE RAPIDLY GROWING ASIAN ECONOMIES, ESPECIALLY MALAYSIA AND KOREA, ALTHOUGH INDONESIA’S GROWTH BEGAN FROM A LOWER ABSOLUTE PER CAPITA INCOME LEVEL. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    IT IS PERHAPSNOT SURPRISING THEN THAT MANY ANALYSTS, ENCOURAGED BY THE IMPROVEMENTS THEY OBSERVED IN INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT AND THE RESULTS ACHIEVED IN TERMS OF RAPID GROWTH, STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION, PRAISED INDONESIA AS ONE OF ASIA’S SUCCESS STORIES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    THE 1997 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT POINTED OUT THAT BRAZIL , CHINA , INDIA AND INDONESIA , THE “ GOLIATH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ,” HAD “TAKEN IMPORTANT STRIDES IN ECONOMIC REFORM IN THE PAST DECADE, AND ALL EXCEPT INDIA ADVANCED IN … THE COMPETITIVENESS RANKING” THE REPORT SHOWED THAT INDONESIA’S GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS RANKING ROSE FROM THIRTIETH PLACE IN 1995 TO FIFTEENTH PLACE IN 1996, PLACING IT IMMEDIATELY BEHIND JAPAN. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    IT WAS ALSODURING THE 1990s, WHEN INDONESIA SEEMED ON A FAST DEVELOPMENT TRACK, THAT ITS ECONOMIC POLICIES WERE HELD UP AS AN OBJECT LESSON FOR OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. INDONESIA, WHICH HAD PUT INTO PLACE MANY OF THE POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS THAT CLOSELY RESEMBLED THE “WASHINGTON CONSENSUS,” WAS CONSIDERED AN APPROPRIATE ROLE MODEL BECAUSE IT HAD MANAGED TO SHIFT FROM A RELATIVELY CLOSED ECONOMY WITH STRONG PROTECTION FOR NEARLY ALL DOMESTIC SECTORS TO A MORE OPEN ECONOMY THAT WAS INCREASINGLY ABLE TO COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    Source: World BankDevelopment Indicator * Economies that have reached industrialized countries per capita income level. ** Period in which GDP growth was 7 percent per year or more. *** In constant US$ of 2000. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Economy Period of high growth ** Per capita income at the beginning and 2005 *** Botswana 1960-2005 210 3,800 Brazil 1950-1980 960 4,000 China 1961-2005 105 1,400 Hong Kong, China * 1960-1997 3,100 29,900 Indonesia 1966-1997 200 900 Japan * 1960-1983 3,500 39,600 Korea, Rep. of * 1960-2001 1,100 13,200 Malaysia 1967-1997 790 4,400 Malta * 1963-1994 1,100 9,600 Oman 1960-1999 950 9,000 Singapore 1967-2002 2,200 25,400 Taiwan, China * 1965-2002 1,500 16,400 Thailand 1960-1997 330 2,400
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    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com Success Story Political Stability High Economic Growth Accelerated Poverty Reduction Old Order 1965/1966 Chaos New Order “ Law & Order” Tight Political Control Market Economy Rice Self Sufficiency 6 year Compulsory Education Health; Family Planning Public Health Social Service Open Capital Account Trade Deregulation Financial Deregulation Infrastructure Development Support of Western Countries
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    DEVELOPMENT TRILOGY STABILITYGROWTH EQUITY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    POLITICAL STABILITY THENEW ORDER GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESIDENT SUHARTO GOVERNNED INDONESIA FOR 32 YEARS (1966-1998) FROM THE BEGINNING POLITICAL STABILITY WAS RELENTLESSLY PURSUED AND SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAINED THE MILITARY, THE BUREAUCRACY AND GOLKAR (THE GOVERNMENT’S PARTY) CONSTITUTED THE POLITICAL PILLARS OF THE NEW ORDER THE FLOATING MASS DEPOLITICIZING OF THE MASSES, CONSTITUTED AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE POLITICAL STRATEGY TO SUSTAIN LONG-TERM POLITICAL STABILITY. THE POLITICAL SYSTEM HAD PRODUCED THE INTENDED RESULT: POLITICAL STABILITY THAT HAD ENDURED FOR THREE DECADES, SUSTAINING ECONOMIC GROWTH WHICH IN TURN FURTHER REINFORCED ITS CLAIM TO LEGITIMACY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLITICALSTABILITY ASSURED, AND WITH UNIFORMITY OF PURPOSE AND METHOD THE NEW ORDER EARNESTLY EMBARKED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS WIDELY CONSIDERED AS SUCCESSFUL USING VARIOUS STANDARD OF MEASUREMENTS Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATIONIN THE EARLY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT, INDONESIA DEPENDED ON OIL INCOME AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE. 1980: INDONESIA EMBARKED ON VARIOUS ECONOMIC REFORMS TO EMBRACE GLOBALIZATION. ELEMENTS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION PRE-1980. ADOPTION OF AN OPEN CAPITAL ACCOUNT. THE BALANCED BUDGET POLICY. COMPETITIVE REAL EXCHANGE RATE WITH PERIODIC ADJUSTMENTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    ELEMENTS OF ECONOMICLIBERALIZATION POST-1980: DEREGULATION OF FOREIGN TRADE. REDUCTION AND REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT. LIBERALIZATION OF FINANCIAL SECTOR. ADOPTION OF A MODERN, SIMPLIFIED TAX SYSTEM. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    RISING PER CAPITAINCOME OVER THE PERIOD 1965-95 REAL GDP PER CAPITA GREW AT AN ANNUAL AVERAGE RATE OF 7 %. IN THE MID 1960 ’ S INDONESIA WAS POORER THAN INDIA. BY MID 1995, INDONESIA ’ S GDP PER CAPITA EXCEEDED $ 1,000, OVER 3 TIMES INDIA ’ S Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    SHARPLY DECLINING LEVELSOF POVERTY THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION LIVING BELOW THE NATIONAL POVERTY LINE FELL FROM AROUND 60% IN 1970 TO 40% IN 1976 TO 15% IN 1990 AND TO 11.5% IN 1996 Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    RISING SHARE OFMANUFACTURING OUTPUT IN GDP THE SHARE OF THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN GDP ROSE FROM 7.6% IN 1973 TO NEARLY 25% IN 1995. THIS WAS DRIVEN BY THE RAPID GROWTH OF MANUFACTURED EXPORTS NON-OIL EXPORTS, WHICH WERE PREDOMINANTLY MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS, GREW BY ROUGHLY 22% PER ANNUM OVER THE DECADE FROM 1985, WHEN TRADE LIBERALIZATION WAS FIRST IMPLEMENTED, TO 1995; A RATE FOUR TIMES FASTER THAN THE GROWTH OF WORLD TRADE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    ECONOMIC GROWTH ANDEQUITY INDONESIA’S BROAD BASED, LABOR-ORIENTED GROWTH STRATEGY, BACKED BY A STRONG RECORD IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, BROUGHT ABOUT ONE OF THE SHARPEST REDUCTIONS IN POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. AT THE SAME TIME, THIS STRATEGY RESULTED IN REAL WAGES RISING ABOUT AS FAST AS PER-CAPITA GDP AND, AMONG OTHERS, BENEFITED WOMEN BY PROVIDING THEM WITH RAPIDLY GROWING PAID EMPLOYMENT IN THE FORMAL SECTOR, THAT ALLOWED THEM TO SWITCH OUT OF UNPAID WORK IN THE RURAL SECTOR. SOCIAL INDICATORS, SUCH AS INFANT MORTALITY, FERTILITY AND SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS, ALSO SHOWED SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT. WORLD BANK DOCUMENT (1997) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    LIFE EXPECTANCY ROSEAND INFANT MORTALITY DECLINED DRAMATICALLY. EIGHT OUT OF TEN OF THE POPULATION HAD ACCESST TO HEALTH CARE AND TWO OUT OF THREE TO SAFE DRINKING WATER. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    BUT BY THEEND OF THE DECADE A VERY DIFFERENT VIEW EMERGED. ALTHOUGH A NUMBER OF THE ASIAN MIRACLE ECONOMIES WERE SEVERELY AFFECTED BY THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, INDONESIA FARED WORST, QUICKLY TURNING FROM A “STAR PERFORMER” TO THE “SICK MAN” OF EAST ASIA . ITS ECONOMY PROVED LESS RESILIENT TO THE ASIAN FINANCIAL TURMOIL THAN OTHER ASIAN ECONOMIES AND ITS RECOVERY HAS BEEN SLOWER AND MORE HESITANT THAN THAT OF THE OTHER AFFECTED ASIAN COUNTRIES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    GIVEN INDONESIA’S ECONOMICTRACK RECORD OVER THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1985 AND 1997, SOME OBSERVERS THOUGHT IT PUZZLING THAT THE ECONOMY WOULD SUFFER SUCH A SEVERE AND SUDDEN COLLAPSE WHEN FACED WITH AN EXTERNAL SHOCK. A NUMBER OF STYLIZED MODELS HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD TO EXPLAIN THE DEPTH AND SPREAD OF THE ASIAN CRISIS, PARTICULARLY RELEVANT TO INDONESIA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    DESPITE THE DIFFERINGDESCRIPTIONS OF THE ORIGINS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THE CORE OF MANY EXPLANATIONS IS THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM WAS LESS WELL MANAGED THAN THE MAJOR ECONOMIC INDICATORS SUGGESTED. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    RATHER THE LESSONTO BE LEARNED IS THAT BASIC MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS OFTEN FAIL TO REFLECT THE GROWING WEAKNESSES (OR STRENGTHS) OF THE NATIONAL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT PROVIDE THE ESSENTIAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    THE COLLAPSE OFTHE INDONESIAN ECONOMY ILLUSTRATES THE NEED FOR COMBINING MEASURES OF GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION WITH A CONCERTED EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS, SUCH AS AN INDEPENDENT AND REASONABLY COMPETENT JUDICIARY, STRENGTHENED CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND BANKING SECTOR OVERSIGHT, AS WELL AS A POLITICAL SYSTEM OPEN TO CHANGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    WHAT APPEARED TOMANY TO BE AN ECONOMY THAT HAD A REASONABLE RECORD OF SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT WAS IN FACT A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEM WHOSE STRENGTHS AND INSTITUTIONAL BASE HAD BEEN WEAK AND PROGRESSIVELY WEAKENED BY THE CRISIS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    ON 2 JULY1997, THE CENTRAL BANK OF THAILAND WAS FORCED TO ABANDON ITS FIXED EXCHANGE RATE REGIME AND THE BAHT IMMEDIATELY DEPRECIATED BY ALMOST 20%. AS QUESTIONS BEGAN TO BE RAISED ABOUT THE STRUCTURAL SOUNDNESS OF THE EAST ASIAN ECONOMIES THERE WAS A SUDDEN AND DRAMATIC REVERSAL OF CAPITAL FLOWS AS INFLOWS TURNED INTO MASSIVE CAPITAL OUTFLOWS AND BANKS THAT WERE ONCE EAGER TO LEND TO NEARLY ANY ASIAN INVESTOR SUDDENLY REFUSED TO RENEW SHORT-TERM CREDIT LINES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 30.
    DURING THE THREEMONTHS BETWEEN JULY AND SEPTEMBER 1997, THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS GATHERED FULL FORCE AND BEGAN TO AFFECT INDONESIA DESPITE CONTINUED EXPRESSIONS OF CONFIDENCE THAT THE SOUNDNESS OF ITS ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS AND MANAGEMENT WOULD SEE IT THROUGH WITH LITTLE DAMAGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 31.
    THE EXCHANGE RATEDROPS FROM 2,400 RP/$ (JULY 1997) TO 16,000 RP/$ (JUNE 1998). 1998: GDP GROWTH: -13.6% INFLATION: 77.6%. COLLAPSE OF THE BANKING SYSTEM: COST OF RESTRUCTURING THE BANKING SYSTEM: RP. 650 TRILLION (US$65 BILLION) TOTAL EXTERNAL DEBT (1999): $148 BILLION, OR 104% GDP HALF OF IT PRIVATE SECTOR’S + $ 30 BILLION SHORT TERM Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 32.
    NON-OIL EXPORTS GROWTH:1998: + 9,9% 1999: - 7,2% MILLIONS OF INDIVIDUALS LOST THEIR JOBS CHILDREN LEFT SCHOOL POVERTY INCREASED Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 33.
    LOSING THE SUPPORTOF THE MILITARY, THE CABINET, AND THE PARLIAMENT ON MAY 21ST 1998 PRESIDENT SUHARTO RESIGNED HIS PRESIDENCY VICE PRESIDENT BJ HABIBIE ASSUMED THE PRESIDENCY THUS ENDED THE ERA OF THE NEW ORDER. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 34.
    HUNTINGTON (1991: 54-55)MAKES THE POINT THAT THE LEGITIMACY OF AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME MIGHT BE UNDERMINED EVEN IF IT DOES DELIVER ON ITS PROMISES. “ BY ACHIEVING ITS PURPOSE, IT LOST ITS PURPOSE. THIS REDUCED THE REASONS WHY THE PUBLIC SHOULD SUPPORT THE REGIME, GIVEN OTHER COSTS (E.G. LACK OF FREEDOM) CONNECTED WITH THE REGIME”(1991: 55). HE POSITS THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROVIDED THE BASIS FOR DEMOCRACY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 35.
    HE CITES THEFAMOUS—ALBEIT MUCH CONTESTED-- LIPSET HYPOTHESIS CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY: THE WEALTHY COUNTRIES ARE DEMOCRATIC AND THE MOST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES ARE WEALTHY. HE ARGUES THAT: “IN POOR COUNTRIES DEMOCRATIZATION IS UNLIKELY; IN RICH COUNTRIES IT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.” IN BETWEEN THERE IS A POLITICAL TRANSITION ZONE; COUNTRIES IN THAT PARTICULAR ECONOMIC STRATUM ARE MOST LIKELY TO TRANSIT TO DEMOCRACY AND MOST COUNTRIES THAT TRANSIT TO DEMOCRACY WILL BE IN THAT STRATUM.” (1991: 60). Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 36.
    HE MAINTAINS THATA SOCIAL SCIENTIST WHO WISHED TO PREDICT FUTURE DEMOCRATIZATION “WOULD HAVE DONE REASONABLY WELL IF HE SIMPLY FINGERED THE NON-DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES IN THE $1,000-$3,000 (GNP PER CAPITA) TRANSITION ZONE” (1991: 63). FURTHER STUDIES, IN PARTICULAR AN EXTENSIVE QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS DONE BY PRZEWORSKY ET.AL. (2000: 92) HAS LENT SUPPORT TO HUNTINGTON’S THRESHOLD ARGUMENT. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 37.
    IN 1996, THEYEAR BEFORE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS SWEPT INDONESIA, ITS GNP PER CAPITA HAD REACHED $1,155. ACCORDING TO HUNTINGTON’S THEORY, AT THAT STAGE INDONESIA HAD ENTERED THE TRANSITION ZONE, WHICH MEANT THAT IT WAS SENSITIVE TO PRESSURE FOR POLITICAL CHANGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 38.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com Setting For Change Fall of Global Communism Democratization Human Rights 1998 Crisis Internal Dynamics Fall of Information Barrier Rise of Middle Class Social Awareness Enlightened Public Political Islam Disparity : Income Sectoral Regional Ethnic Opportunity Closed System Cronyism Corruption Nepotism Dysfunctional Bureaucracy Overheated Economy Lack of Banking Oversight Aggressive Foreign (Short Term) Lending Collapse of the Economy Breakdown of Social Compact Abandonment of International Support Role of Student Political Elite Mlitary Reform Movement External Forces :
  • 39.
    THREE DECADES OFDEVELOPMENT HAD SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE LEVEL AND REACH OF EDUCATION ACROSS THE NATION AND SOCIAL CLASSES. WITH EDUCATION CAME ENLIGHTENMENT AND EMANCIPATION FROM CULTURAL RESTRICTION, FREEING PEOPLE FROM THE SHACKLES OF OLD INHIBITIONS AND TRADITIONS. WITH EDUCATION PEOPLE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE WERE MORE NEEDS THAN JUST PRIMARY NEEDS OF FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 40.
    THOUSANDS OF INDONESIANSWHO STUDIED AT FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES, MOST OF THEM IN WESTERN COUNTRIES, LEARNED FIRST HAND THE SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES THAT HAS BEEN THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES THAT RESULTED IN THE AFFLUENCE OF THE WESTERN SOCIETIES. THEY RETURNED HOME IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM, WHICH WAS A POTENT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION TO CHANGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 41.
    THE SUPPOSED ULTIMATEVICTORY OF DEMOCRACY AGAINST ALL OTHER SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT (SEE FUKUYAMA, 1992) HAS CHANGED THE PEOPLE’S POLITICAL ATTITUDES, OR AT LEAST THE ELITE’S PERCEPTION, OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AS AN EVIL SYSTEM. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE BROUGHT ABOUT THE OPENING UP NOT OF ONLY THE INDONESIAN MARKET TO FOREIGN GOODS BUT ALSO THE INDONESIAN SOCIETY TO FOREIGN IDEAS. WITH GLOBALIZATION CAME NOT ONLY THE INTEGRATION OF MARKETS BUT ALSO THE INTRODUCTION AND EVENTUAL INTEGRATION OF IDEAS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 42.
    THE BREAKDOWN OFBARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION, THE MAIN FORCE BEHIND GLOBALIZATION AND THE DRIVE TOWARD A HIGHER DEGREE OF CIVILIZATION, SWEPT INDONESIA WITH READILY AVAILABLE AND UP TO DATE INFORMATION. IT FREED THE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CONSTRAINTS OF TIME AND SPACE. CENSORSHIP WAS NO LONGER RELEVANT, BECAUSE ONE COULD ACCESS INFORMATION THROUGH THE INTERNET, CNN OR CABLE TV, OR JUST TRAVEL. THE DIFFUSION OF DEMOCRATIC IDEALS BY THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY WAS UNSTOPPABLE. THE INFORMATION BERLIN WALL WAS CRUMBLING DOWN. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 43.
    WHEN THE GOVERNMENTCLOSED DOWN THE POPULAR INDONESIA MAGAZINE, TEMPO, BECAUSE OF IT CRITICAL TONE, IT SIMPLY RESURFACED AS AN INTERNET WEBSITE. PEOPLE CLOSELY FOLLOWED THE FALL OF NON-DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES AND IN A COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE PHILIPPINES AND KOREA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 44.
    STUDENTS ACTIVISM AMONG THE SOCIAL FORCES THAT WERE POISED AGAINST THE NEW ORDER, THE MOST CONSISTENT AND MILITANT WERE THE STUDENTS. IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATION, EVEN BEFORE INDEPENDENCE, THE INDONESIAN YOUTH AND STUDENTS PLAYED PIVOTAL ROLE. THEY PARTICIPATED IN EVERY IMPORTANT EVENT IN THE NATION COURSE OF HISTORY. THERE IS NO MAJOR POLITICAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA THAT HAS NOT INVOLVED THE YOUTH AND STUDENTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 45.
    STUDENT ACTIVISM WASVERY MUCH ACTIVE IN 1970s, AND CONTINUED INTO THE 1980s AND 1990s; TAKING UP NATIONAL ISSUES LIKE CORRUPTION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY, AND LOCAL ISSUES, SUCH AS EVICTION OF PEOPLE FROM AREAS DESIGNATED FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND LABOR ISSUES RELATED TO THEIR AREA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 46.
    ALTHOUGH THE STUDENTMOVEMENTS MOST OF THE TIME WERE WIDELY SCATTERED, UNFOCUSED AND UN-COORDINATED AND WERE ISOLATED FROM BROAD POPULAR SUPPORT, THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL IN GALVANIZING THE SILENT MAJORITY TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT CURRENT POLITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING THE NATION. UHLIN NOTES THAT THE STUDENT ACTIVISM OF THE LATE 1980S AND EARLY 1990S HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A RADICALIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION IN INDONESIA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 47.
    RISE OF THE MIDLE CLASS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GAVE BIRTH TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. URBAN MIDDLE CLASS IS A PRODUCT OF WIDER AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. IN AGRARIAN INDONESIA THE NASCENT MIDDLE CLASS HAD GROWN IN NUMBER AND INFLUENCE WITH THE ADVANCE OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBANIZATION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 48.
    AT THAT STAGETHE INDONESIAN MIDDLE CLASS POLITICAL ATTITUDE WAS NOT NECESSARILY ANTIGOVERNMENT; IN FACT UNTIL THE END OF THE 1980S THE MAJORITY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS WHO OWED THEIR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT’S DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS BELIEVED IN THE GOVERNMENT’S DEVELOPMENT CREED AND STRONGLY FAVORED POLITICAL STABILITY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 49.
    IN COUNTRY AFTERCOUNTRY THE RISING URBAN MIDDLE CLASS HAD BEEN THE FORCE OFMODERNIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION. IN THE PHILIPPINES, KOREA, THAILAND THEY HAD PLAYED CRUCIAL ROLE BEHIND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 50.
    WHEN THIS RESOURCEFULBUT RATIONAL PART OF SOCIETY JOINED FORCES WITH THE DYNAMIC PART OF SOCIETY SUCH AS THE STUDENTS OR URBAN WORKERS, THE COMBINATION COULD BE EXPLOSIVE. INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS HAD THUS SPELLED THE DIFFUSION OF POWER, AND THE EDUCATED MIDDLE CLASS TENDED TO BECOME INCREASINGLY VOCAL IN DEFENSE OF ITS INTERESTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 51.
    BY THE MID-1990sTHE INDONESIAN MIDDLE CLASS HAD REACHED THE “CRITICAL MASS” IN NUMBER AS WELL AS IN RESOURCES TO PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE AT POLITICAL CHANGE. AND THEY HAD INCREASINGLY BECOME CRITICAL OF THE GOVERNMENT; THEIR WRITINGS, PLAYS AND DISCOURSES HAD PROVIDED FOR INTELLECTUAL INSPIRATION TOWARDS DEMOCRATIZATION. MANY OF THEM FORMED NGO’S THAT WERE ACTIVELY PROMOTING AGENDA OF REFORMS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 52.
    CIVIL SOCIETY CIVILSOCIETY IN INDONESIA HAS HAD ONLY RECENT HISTORY, SO THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE COUNTRY ’ S IMPORTANT POLITICAL EVENTS IS STILL MINIMAL. BUT WITH THE WEAKENING OF THE NEW ORDER GOVERNMENT IN THE WAKE OF ECONOMIC CRISIS, AND THE ONGOING PROCESS OF POLITICAL REFORMS AND DEMOCRATIZATION THAT IS GAINING MOMENTUM IN THE COUNTRY, THE ROLE OF THE NGO IS GROWING. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 53.
    INEQUALITY WHILE, ASMENTIONED ABOVE INDONESIA’S DEVELOPMENT HAD A WIDESPREAD EFFECT ON THE POPULATION IN GENERAL AS INDICATED BY DECLINING POVERTY INCIDENCES AND VARIOUS SOCIAL INDICATORS, THERE WAS GROWING AWARENESS OF THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN INCOME GROUPS, BETWEEN REGIONS, AND BETWEEN ETHNICS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 54.
    AT THE HEIGHTOF THE PRAISE FOR THE NEW ORDER ACHIEVEMENT, MANY INDONESIAN SCHOLARS AND CRITICS NOTED THE LACK OF DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE AS ONE OF THE MAJOR CRITICISM OF THE NEW ORDER. THEY ARGUED THAT THE INDONESIAN ECONOMIC SUCCESS HAD BENEFITED THE URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL SECTOR WHILE (RELATIVELY) MARGINALIZING THE RURAL AND TRADITIONAL SECTORS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 55.
    IT IS POSSIBLEAN INCREASE IN THE POLARIZATION OF THE INCOME DISTRIBUTION OCCURRED IN INDONESIA AS THE ECONOMY GREW AND THAT THIS CONTRIBUTED TO THE PERSISTENT FEELING IN INDONESIA THAT THE MANY ECONOMIC REFORMS LED NOT TO AN IMPROVEMENT IN GENERAL WELFARE, BUT ONLY AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE WELFARE OF THE RICH. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 56.
    CORRUPTION DESPITE THELIBERALIZATION MEASURES UNDERTAKEN IN RESPONSE TO THE WAVE OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE MID-1980S, CONTROL OF THE ECONOMY CONTINUED TO BE DIRECT, THROUGH MONOPOLIES IN KEY INDUSTRIES (ENERGY, PAPER, STEEL, COMMODITIES, TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS), OR THROUGH THE CREDIT-ALLOCATION POWERS OF FINANCIAL AGENCIES THAT WERE CONTROLLED BY OR PREJUDICED IN FAVOR OF PRIVILEGED AND POLITICALLY CONNECTED BUSINESS GROUPS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 57.
    PRIVATIZATION IN THE1980s OFTEN MEANT THE TRANSFER OF INDUSTRIES FROM DIRECT STATE MONOPOLY TO HANDS THAT WERE ONLY NOMINALLY PRIVATE BUT REALLY HIGHLY DIVERSIFIED CONGLOMERATES WHO ENJOYED PROTECTION FROM OPEN COMPETITION AND GUARANTEED ACCESS TO STATE FUNDS AND FACILITIES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 58.
    MEANWHILE THE PRESIDENT’SFAMILY AND THE ECONOMIC CRONIES ALIGNED THEMSELVES TO PURSUE POORLY CONCEIVED ECONOMIC PROGRAMS. CORRUPTION HAD BECOME AN ISSUE AND HAD TAINTED THE GOVERNMENT’S CREDIBILITY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 59.
    Source: Transparency international,(taken from haggard, 2000). Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 60.
    REGIONAL DISPARITY CENTRALIZEDPOWER AND UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH CREATED DISSATISFACTION AMONG PEOPLE IN THE OUTLYING REGIONS. WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INDUSTRIALIZATION, JAVA AND SOME PROVINCES PROGRESSED FASTER THAN THE REST OF THE REGIONS, ESPECIALLY THE EASTERN PART THE COUNTRY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 61.
    THESE PROVINCES, RICHIN NATURAL RESOURCES, WERE RESENTFUL OF THE RETURNS THAT THEY RECEIVED FROM THEIR REGIONS’ CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. THE WIDENING DISPARITY BETWEEN REGIONS WAS ANOTHER SOURCE OF CRITICISM AGAINST THE NEW ORDER. TO A SIGNIFICANT EXTENT THIS PROBLEM STILL PERSISTS TODAY, AND IS ONE FACTOR DRIVING THE SOVEREIGNTY CONFLICTS IN ACEH AND PAPUA. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 62.
    ROLE OF THEMILITARY EVEN WITHIN THE MILITARY THERE WAS A GROWING UNEASINESS WITH THE UNFOLDING EVENTS. WHILE ACTIVE MILITARY OFFICERS TRUE TO THEIR SOLDIERS’ OATH REMAINED LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT, THERE WAS GROWING OPPOSITION AMONG THE RETIRED MILITARY OFFICERS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 63.
    SHIRAISHI (1999: 78)ARGUES THAT ALTHOUGH THE MILITARY REMAINED LOYAL TO THE PRESIDENT TO THE LAST MINUTE, “THE STRUGGLE WITHIN THE UPPER ECHELONS OF THE MILITARY HAD A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON THE POLITICAL PROCESS AND ON EVENTS IN THE COUNTRY MORE GENERALLY.” NO LONGER COULD THE MILITARY BE COUNTED TO BE IN THE POSITION TO DEFEND THE REGIME AT ANY COST. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 64.
    POLITICAL ISLAM THEEMERGING ROLE OF ISLAM AS A FORCE OF CHANGE SHOULD ALSO NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED. UHLIN (1997:82) AGUES THAT MANY INDONESIAN PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS ARE MORE THAN NOMINALLY MUSLIM AND THEY OFTEN USE ISLAMIC DISCOURSES TO MOTIVATE THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 65.
    LEADERSHIP CRISIS INADDITION TO HIGH LEVELS OF CORRUPTION, WHEN THE CRISIS HIT, THE LEADERSHIP HAD A LIMITED RESERVOIR OF POPULAR SUPPORT TO CALL UPON. TWO FACTORS ARE NOTABLE. INDONESIA HAD, BY FAR, THE LONGEST-SERVING LEADER OF ANY OF THE COUNTRIES IMPACTED BY THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, AS WELL AS THE MOST CENTRALIZED DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 66.
    WHILE THE OTHERCOUNTRIES IMPACTED BY THE CRISIS—THAILAND, SOUTH KOREA, AND MALAYSIA—HAD DEVELOPED AT LEAST PARTIALLY INCLUSIVE REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS DURING THE 1980S AND 1990S, THE INDONESIAN STATE CONTINUED DOWN AN AUTHORITARIAN PATH, WITH REAL POWER CONTINUING TO BE CONCENTRATED IN THE PRESIDENT AND HIS FAMILY AND SELECTED CRONIES. (WORLD BANK, 2006) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 67.
    WHILE IN BETTERTIMES THE REGIME HAD THE POWER TO CREATE AND ENFORCE MANY POLICIES ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY, WHEN COLLECTIVE NATIONAL SACRIFICE WAS NECESSARY THERE WERE FEW RESERVOIRS OF GOODWILL TO CALL UPON FROM A DISENFRANCHISED CITIZENRY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 68.
    THE CRACKS INTHE RANKS OF THE NEW ORDER HAD COME TO THE SURFACE, AS THE NEW ORDER SUPPORTERS WITHIN AND OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THOSE IN THE MILITARY AND THE CABINET HAD GROWN ALIENATED BY THE WAY PRESIDENT SOEHARTO HANDLED THE CRISIS, AND BY HIS INABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE WEAKNESSES IN THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS AND THE URGENT NEED TO EMBARK ON REFORMS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 69.
    THE CATALYST MANYOF THE OPPOSING FORCES IDENTIFIED ABOVE WERE LONG PRESENT, ALBEIT LATENT IN THE UNDERCURRENT OF INDONESIAN POLITICS FOR YEARS. BY THEMSELVES HOWEVER, THEY DID NOT PRESENT A SUFFICIENT CHALLENGE CAPABLE OF ENDING SUHARTO’S RULE. THE NEW ORDER’S CENTRALIZED POWER STRUCTURE AND CAREFUL CONTROL OF POLITICAL COMPETITION WOULD HAVE ENSURED THE SECURITY OF THE PRESIDENT POSITION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 70.
    EMPIRICAL OBSERVATIONS LEDHUNTINGTON (1991) TO BELIEVE THAT CRISES PRODUCED BY EITHER RAPID GROWTH OR ECONOMIC RECESSION WEAKENED AUTHORITARIANISM. IT WOULD, HOWEVER, STILL NEED A CATALYST TO QUICKEN THE PACE OF CHANGE. THE ECONOMIC CRISIS WAS THE TRIGGER THAT WOULD SET THE CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT EVENTUALLY LEAD TO THE POLITICAL CHANGE. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 71.
    AND THE MUCHTOUTED AND INTERNATIONALLY PRAISED NEW ORDER DID FINALLY FALL. MANY OBSERVERS AGREE THAT FOR PRESIDENT SUHARTO, WHO RESTED HIS CLAIM TO RULE ON HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER ECONOMIC GROWTH, THE ECONOMIC CRISIS DEEPLY UNDERMINED HIS LEGITIMACY AND LEFT HIM AFTER SO MANY YEARS IN POWER, AT LAST, VULNERABLE TO CREDIBLE CHALLENGE FOR POWER. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 72.
    CONCLUSION IN CONCLUSION,THE EXCEPTIONAL SEVERITY OF THE INDONESIAN CRISIS WAS A REFLECTION OF THE CONFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISES, AND IT SERVES TO ILLUSTRATE WELL HOW ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FORCES CAN REINFORCE EACH OTHER IN TIME OF CRISIS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 73.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 74.
    INDONESIA IS EMERGINGFROM LONG PERIOD OF AUTHORITARIAN RULE TO CONSOLIDATE ITS STATUS AS THE THIRD LARGEST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 75.
    INDONESIA REMAINS VULNERABLETO EXTERNAL SHOCKS SUCH AS THE CURRENT GLOBAL DOWNTURN. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 76.
    WHAT INDONESIA HASACHIEVED, SINCE THE 1998 CRISIS, IN TERMS OF MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL STABILITY IS TRULY REMARKABLE… Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 77.
    In 2005 per-capitareal GDP for the first time exceeded the high that had been reached in 1997, before the peak of the crisis. … .and, in 2007, growth accelerated to 10 year high of 6.3%, despite a slowing global economy. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 2008 (f) 16% 12% 8% 4% 0% -4% -8% -12% -16% 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 85 80 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Real GDP Growth rate (LHS) GDP per capita Index (RHS) 4.7% -13.1% 0.8% 5.4% 3.8% 4.4% 4.7% 5.0% 5.7% 5.5% 6.3% 6.1%
  • 78.
    Non Oil/Gas Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 79.
    - Inflation 2008  11,06% below June 2008 yearly estimation which is 12,9 % To compete in global market Indonesia should push inflation under 3-5% annualy  Eliminates structural rigidity Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 80.
    TRANSITION INITIALLY TUMULTOUSBUT A GROWING SENSE OF STABILITY AS THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS HAS DEEPENED AND ACHIEVED WIDER ACCEPTANCE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS MANDATING DIRECT ELECTIONS TO ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT HAVE CREATED GREATER ELECTORAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN 2004, INDONESIA CONDUCTED ITS FIRST EVER DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND ITS THIRD PEACEFUL PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION SINCE THE CRISIS IN 2009, THE SECOND GENERAL AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HAVE CONSOLIDATED INDONESIA’S DEMOCRACY A PROFOUND AND REMARKABLY STABLE POLITICAL TRANSITION FROM A CENTRALIZED AUTHORITARIAN REGIME TO A DECENTRALIZED DEMOCRATIC POLITY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 81.
    ALTHOUGH INDONESIA HASNOT BEEN ON "THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY," FOR LONG, THERE IS MUCH THAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. THE DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS IN INDONESIA, ALTHOUGH TRIGGERED BY THE 1997/1998 ECONOMIC CRISIS, HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN RELATIVELY PEACEFULLY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE REFORM OF THE CONSTITUTION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 82.
    AMONG THE AMENDMENTSTO THE CONSTITUTION SEVERAL STAND OUT AS MOST SIGNIFICANT SUCH AS IMPROVEMENT OF CHECKS AND BALANCES SYSTEM, DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL AND REGIONAL EXECUTIVES ELECTIONS, LEGAL REFORM AND DECENTRALIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, BIGGER ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 83.
    WHAT A DIFFERENCEA DECADE MAKES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Issue 1998 2008 Presidential selection Selected indirectly by the People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) every five years Directly elected through universal suffrage every five years National parliament Unicameral legislature 500 members, with 20 percent of seats reserved for the military (reduced to 15 percent in 1995). Dominated by Golkar. Bicameral legislature (DPR and DPD). DPR members (550) elected directly in multi-member constituencies through proportional representation. Each province elects four members to the national DPD, for total of 128 members. Political parties Only three parties legally allowed to contest elections—Golkar, the United Development Party (PPP), Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI). 24 parties competed in the 2004 general election, and five parties put up serious parties for the presidency. Presidential-legislative relations De facto, a rubber stamp body for the president’s policy decisions. The president’s party (the Democrat Party, PD) holds only 56 of 550 seats in DPR. DPR is now a serious check on presidential authority.
  • 84.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com Issue 1998 2008 Role of military Reserved seats at all three levels of parliament. About 6,000 military staff seconded to government positions (as of 1995). Territorial command system enables military self-financing. No reserved seats in parliament Provincial and district executives Appointed by Ministry of Home Affairs (under tight supervision of the president). Directly elected. Provincial and district legislatures Only three parties legally allowed to contest elections. 15 percent of seats reserved for the military. Dominated by Golkar. Directly elected in multi-member constituencies in a proportional representation system. Civil society Tight restrictions on the press and NGOs. Free press and proliferation of NGOs.
  • 85.
    May 1998-October 1999Accountability Speech Rejected Declined to run for President August 1945 - March 1968 Elected by the PPKI Impeached by MPRS October 1999 – July 2001 Elected by MPR Impeached by MPR Sukarno B.J. Habibie Abdurrahman Wahid October 2004 – 2009 Directly elected Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono July 2001 – October 2004 Elected by MPR Lost election to SBY Megawati March 1968 - May 1998 Elected by MPRS Resigned under pressure Suharto REELECTED 2009-2014 Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 86.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com Reform Multi Party Freedom of Speech Human Rights Rule of Law Good Governance 1999 Election 2004 Election Democratic Government International Acknowledgement Strong Parliament Constitutional Court Robust Civil Society Free Press Early Stage of Economic Recovery Regional Autonomy Peace in Aceh Papua Constitutional Amendments Return of Poverty Reduction Fall of New Order Decentralization Release of Political Prisoners Fight Against Corruption Return of Growth Return of Economic Stability Early Stage of Economic Recovery Foundation for Sustainable Economic Growth Independence of Monetary Authority Dismantling Monopolies Free and Fair Competition Good Corporate Governance Reversed Economic Downturn Political Economic Habibie Gus Dur Megawati SBY
  • 87.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 88.
    BY 2008 INDONESIA’SECONOMY WAS STABLE AND DYNAMIC. BUT IT REMAINED VULNERABLE TO EXTERNAL SHOCKS SUCH AS THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 89.
    WHAT IT HASMEANT AND IS LIKELY TO MEAN FOR INDONESIA'S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS DECLINING OECD IMPORTS IMPLY LOWER INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION PARTICULARLY IN EXPORT-ORIENTED MANUFACTURING PLUNGING COMMODITY PRICES IMPLY LOWER EXPORT PRICES, REVERSING RECENT TERMS OF TRADE GAINS ...BUT LOWER INFLATION AS WELL ...TRANSLATING INTO LOWER GROWTH PROSPECTS ...HEIGHTENED RISK OF DISRUPTIVE CAPITAL OUTFLOWS AND ASSOCIATED BOP PRESSURES ...AND WORSE POVERTY AND EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES THAN MIGHT HAVE OTHERWISE BEEN ACHIEVABLE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 90.
    … IMPLIESLOWER GROWTH FOR INDONESIA IN THE SHORT-RUN. … AND NEGATIVE EXPORT GROWTH… Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 91.
    Source: CEIC Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 92.
    Exports value contracted by 28 percent (y o y), the worst contraction ever since 2000. Signs of recovery, exports value bounced back by 17 percent in the 2 nd quarter 2009 (q o q) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 93.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 94.
    Indonesia Export Ratiois low, ....so do FDI Institutional reform such as Inpres 5/2008, together with other programs such as improvement in education sector expenditure, are some efforts to promote Indonesia competitiveness in the global market Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 95.
    World Economic Growthand trade Volume Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 10 5 0 -5 -10 -15 4,5 2005 5, 1 3,1 -1,4 7,6 2,5 GDP Trade Volume 15 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 5, 1 9,3 7.2 3.3 -12.2 1.0 Source : WEO, 8 July 2009
  • 96.
    *estimasi **prognosa Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 97.
    (Percent; quarter overquarter annualized) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 98.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com
  • 99.
    The economy continuesto show its resilience from the global economic crisis GDP continues to expand at 4 percent (y o y) or 2.3 percent (q o q) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com
  • 103.
    Real VAT Growth(%) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
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    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com
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    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 EST INDONESIA 5,5 6,3 6,1 4,3 5,5
  • 106.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 107.
    ALREADY AMONG THE20 LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD (G-20) MEDIUM TO HIGH ECONOMIC GROWTH PROJECTION SOON TO JOIN BRIC AS BRIIC Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 108.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com
  • 109.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com TARGET ECONOMIC GROWTH 6.3 – 6.8% *7% BY 2014 UNEMPLOYMENT 5-6% POVERTY 8-10% INFLATION 4-6 %
  • 110.
    ACCELERATING GROWTH MAKINGGROWTH INCLUSIVE ENSURING GROWTH IS SUSTAINABLE BUILDING RESILIENCY CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACY AND STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 111.
    MAKING THE MOSTOF INDONESIA'S RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS ...WHILE DEVELOPING GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE CLUSTERS ELSEWHERE ...BY RELIEVING INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECKS ...AND REMEDYING WEAKNESSES AND INCONSISTENCIES AND REDUCING UNCERTAINTY IN THE REGULATORY AND POLICY ENVIRONMENT THE CHALLENGES... Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 112.
    Indonesia has thepotential to achieve the rates of growth it achieved prior to the crisis THE POTENTIAL Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 113.
    MAKING THE MOSTOF INDONESIA’S RESOURCE ENDOWMENTS... Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 100 100 50 60 40 20 40 20 60 80 Note: Size of bubble indicates amount of spending (US$ 20 million) Low High Mineral potential index (Prospectively) Australia Canada USA Brazil Chile Peru South Africa Indonesia
  • 114.
    OIL EXPLORATION ACTIVITYHAS DECLINED STEADILY SINCE 2000 Sources : Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 0 20 40 60 80 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 100 120 Oil discovered 2006 2007 No. of exploratory wells drilled
  • 115.
    ...AND DEVELOPING GLOBALLYCOMPETITIVE CLUSTERS Developing globally competitive clusters hinges on a process of "export discovery"-identifying new areas of competitive advantage which Indonesia has not been very successful at in the last decade ...though there are a few promising cases, for Instance, transport related equipment (e.g. automotive components), exports of which have been growing rapidly (37% in 2007) Facilitating the market-led development of other such globally competitive clusters Is needed to accelerate growth Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Products that were "undiscovered" In 1997 Products "discovered" between 1997 and 2001 Year Share of all exports Share of all exports Share of mfg. exports 1997 0.00% 2001 0.29% 1.17% 1.65% 2007 1.26% 3.12% 6.05%
  • 116.
    … BY RELIEVINGINFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECK Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Infrastructure indicator Indonesia’s performance Indonesia’s rank In EAP Electrification (% of households) 53 11th out of 12 Fixed telephone lines (per 1000 people) 47 10th out of 12 Mobile phones (per 1000 inhabitant) 146 9th out of 12 Access to improved sanitation (% of population) 55 8th out of 12 Access to improved water (% of population) 78 7th out of 12 Road network (kms. Per 1000 people) 1.7 6th out of 12 WEF Global competitiveness Report Infrastructure Index 2.74 (out of 7) 5th out of 12
  • 117.
    … BY RELIEVINGINFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECK Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 0 2 4 6 8 6.1 4.5 3.7 2.1 2.8 3.0 3.6 3.2 3.2 Infrastructure Investment (% of GDP)
  • 118.
    SOME REAL MEASURESHAVE BEEN TAKEN PUBLIC SECTOR SPENDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE HAS GROWN ESPECIALLY RECENTLY AND A NEW REGULATORY FRAMEWORK PUT IN PLACE THE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE INFRASTRUCTURE A PRIORITY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 119.
    INFRASTRUCTURE GAP Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 120.
    … BY REDUCINGREGULATORY UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE. A RENEWED LAW ON INVESTMENT PROVIDING EQUAL TREATMENT TO FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INVESTMENT. ECONOMIC POLICY PACKAGES COVERING INVESTMENT CLIMATE, INFRASTRUCTURE, FINANCIAL SECTORS REFORMS IN EACH OF THE LAST THREE YEARS. GOVERNMENT HAS MADE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 121.
    Source: World DevelopmentIndicators (WDI) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 122.
    Sectoral Contribution toGDP Growth (Sectoral Growth – weight by sector’s share in value added ) Sectoral Contribution to Labor Income Growth (Sectoral growth – weighted by sector’s labor intensity) EVEN WHEN PRIMARY SECTORS CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO INDONESIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICES CONTRIBUTED MOST TO LABOR INCOME GROWTH Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 123.
    Per-worker productivity inIndonesia is low, regardless of sector and not increasing very rapidly RAISING THE RETURNS TO THE MAIN ASSET OF THE POOR-THEIR LABOR Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 124.
    … while themovement of workers out of agriculture, the lowest productivity sectors, has stalled in Indonesia since the crisis FACILITATING THE TRANSFER OF WORKERS OUT OF LOW-PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 125.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com
  • 126.
    MDGs: Goals for education sector have been accomplished and already on the right track for 2015 . Challenge : how to utilize bigger amount of budget to promote human resource quality . IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 127.
    WORKING TOWARDS AGREENER INDONESIA BY MAKING GROWTH MORE SUSTAINABLE THROUGH BETTER MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT MANAGING INDONESIA'S FORESTRY AND MARINE RESOURCES SUSTAINABLE WHILE PROVIDING ADEQUATE LIVELIHOODS MEETING INDONESIA'S ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS ENVIRONMENT MAKING INDONESIA'S EXPANDING URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS LIVABLE GROWTH POLES THE CHALLENGES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 128.
    INDONESIA'S CURRENT LEVELOF ENERGY USE IS RELATIVELY LOW BUT IS GROWING RAPIDLY MEETING INDONESIA'S ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS ENVIRONMENT: IDENTIFYING INNOVATIVE-TARIFF MECHANISMS TO PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR EFFICIENT ENERGY USE PROMOTING CLEANER TECHNOLOGIES FOR FOSSIL-FUEL BASED POWER GENERATION SHIFTING, GRADUALLY, TO INCREASED RELIANCE ON INDONESIA'S CONSIDERABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES MEETING INDONESIA'S ENERGY NEEDS WITHOUT SACRIFICING ITS ENVIRONMENT Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 129.
    INDONESIA’S ENERGY SOURCESDay 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Major Islands Coal (MTOE) Natural gas (MTOE) Oil (MTOE) Geothermal (MWI) Hydroelectric (MW) Biomass (MW) Java 6 165 67 3086 54 13,622 Bali - - - 226 20 347 Sumatra 13,558 425 1,551 5,433 5,489 6,433 Kalimantan 5,885 1,180 200 - 6,047 6,231 Sulawesi 20 24 - 721 4,479 5,337 Nusa Tenggara - - - 645 292 1,174 Maluku - - 1 142 217 1,093 Papua 64 24 2 24,974 6,814 TOTAL 19,533 1,817 1,822 10.027 41,436 41,661
  • 130.
    MAKING INDONESIA 'SURBAN AGGLOMERATIONS LIVABLE GROWTH POLES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com Past and Projected Increases in Urban Populations in Selected Countries Country or Region (Millions) (% Increase) 1995-2005 2005-2015 2015-2025 1995-2005 2005-2015 2015-2025 China 150.1 152.8 138.7 39.4 28.8 20.3 India 71.8 90.0 122.4 28.3 27.7 29.5 Indonesia 38.6 38.4 31.5 55.1 35.3 21.4 Korea 3.5 2.1 1 .0 9.8 5.5 2.4 Malaysia 5.9 5.4 4.4 51.2 31.2 19.5 Philippines 16.0 17.3 16.1 43.1 32.6 22.9 Southeast Asia 75.9 81 .0 76.3 44.7 32.9 23.3 Thailand 2.9 3.8 4.9 16.9 18.6 20.4 Vietnam 6.2 8.0 10.0 37.9 35.6 33.0
  • 131.
    INDONESIA'S URBAN AGGLOMERATIONSHAVE GROWN RAPIDLY IN TERMS OF POPULATION... … BUT HAVE YET TO FULLY REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL AS GROWTH POLES URGENT INVESTMENTS NEEDED IN INFRASTRUCTURE, MASS TRANSIT ESPECIALLY MASS TRANSIT AND ROADS... ...AND IN MEETING THE DEMAND FOR SERVICES, ESPECIALLY WATER AND SANITATION FROM GROWING URBAN POPULATIONS, INCLUDING EXPANDING INFORMAL SLUM SETTLEMENTS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' CAPACITY TO IMPROVE SERVICES IS STILL INHIBITED BY OVER-RELIANCE ON FUNDING BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT... ...AND SPATIAL PLANNING SUFFERS FROM INADEQUATE VERTICAL INTEGRATION BETWEEN AGENCIES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 132.
    RAPID GROWTH ISURBAN BASED—DECOMPOSITION OF GROWTH RATES FOR THE FAST-GROWING ECONOMIES: VARIOUS PERIODS In all cases of sustained high growth (7 percent or more sustained over 25 years or more), it is production in urban areas—that is manufacturing and services—that led the growth Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 0 -2 -4 -6 8 6 4 2 10 12 Growth (%) Botswana Brazil China Hong Kong, China Indonesia Japan Korea, Rep of Malaysia Oman Singapore Taiwan, China Thailand agriculture manufacturing service
  • 133.
    MAKING INDONESIA MORERESILIENT BY BETTER PLANNING FOR AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK PREPARING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND STRENGTHENING THE INSTITUTIONS AND CAPACITY FOR PLANNING FOR MANAGING DISASTERS DESIGNING SOCIAL PROTECTION SCHEMES THAT BUFFER THE POPULATION FROM THE ADVERSE IMPACT OF SHOCK ENHANCING THE CAPACITY OF AND COORDINATION MECHANISM AMONG FINANCIAL SECTOR REGULATORY AND SUPERVISION INSTITUTION TO DEAL WITH SYSTEMIC SHOCKS FROM EITHER EXTERNAL OR INTERNAL RESOURCES THE CHALLENGE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 134.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 135.
    WHILE CITIZENS AREFREE TO DEMONSTRATE AND THE PRESS IS FREE TO WRITE WHAT THEY WANT, MANY CITIZENS ARE STILL SUBJECT TO ARBITRARY DECISIONS AND/OR RENT-SEEKING BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, THE POLICE AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM (WORLD BANK, 2004). IT IS STILL COMMON FOR CITIZENS TO BE REQUIRED TO PAY BRIBES IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE PERMITS AND SETTLE LEGAL DISPUTES, FOR EXAMPLE (WORLD BANK, 2006). Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 136.
    IN THE POST-TRANSITIONPERIOD THE INDONESIAN POLITY HAS TO GRAPPLE WITH THREE KEY ISSUES IN CONSOLIDATING ITS NASCENT DEMOCRACY: HOW BEST TO STRENGTHEN THE POLITICAL CULTURE, DEEPEN DEMOCRACY, AND ENHANCE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONALIZATION. HOW TO ESTABLISH AND IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF GOVERNANCE UNDER THE DEMOCRATIC REGIME. HOW TO RESTORE GROWTH, ALLEVATE POVERTY AND MEET OTHER ECONOMIC CHALLENGES. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 137.
    RELATIVE ECONOMIC ANDSOCIAL STABILITY HAS BEEN MAINTAINED AND THE COUNTRY HAS UNDERTAKEN DEMOCRATIC GENERAL ELECTIONS IN 1999, 2004 AGAIN IN 2009, UNDER THE AMMENDED CONSTITUTION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 138.
    HOWEVER, AS NOTEDBY THE WORLD BANK, HAVING SHIFTED FROM BEING A ‘ DEVELOPMENT STATE ’ TO A ‘ DEMOCRATIC STATE ’, INDONESIA FACES MANY CHALLENGES THAT ARE COMMON TO TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES. WHILE A LARGE MAJORITY OF INDONESIANS POLLED RECENTLY SAID THAT THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF THE CURRENT DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM, THERE IS ALSO WIDESPREAD FRUSTRATION WITH ONGOING CORRUPTION, WEAK FORMAL SECTOR JOB GROWTH AND A SENSE THAT THE POSSIBILITIES INHERENT IN A DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION HAVE NOT BEEN FULLY REALIZED (ROBISON AND HADIZ, 2004). Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 139.
    MEASURING THE PERFORMANCEOF GOVERNMENT IN THIS PROCESS OF CHANGE IS FAR FROM EASY OR STRAIGHTFORWARD . Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 140.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com
  • 141.
    HOWEVER, SEVERAL OFTHE RECENT CHANGES ARE NOTABLE: IMPROVEMENTS IN VOICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY REFLECT THE IMPACTS OF THE POST-CRISIS UPHEAVAL, WITH THE SUBSEQUENT EMERGENCE OF A DEMOCRATIC, DECENTRALIZED INDONESIA AND THE RETURN OF POLITICAL STABILITY FOLLOWING A FREE-AND-FAIR ELECTION PROCESS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 142.
    IMPROVING QUALITY OFBUREAUCRACY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 143.
    Source: www.freedomhouse.org Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 144.
    Source: www.freedomhouse.org Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 145.
    Source: www.freedomhouse.org Day4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 146.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 147.
    A POLITICAL SURPRISEWITH THE EMERGENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE PARTY FOUNDED BY SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO TO TAKE PART IN 2004 ELECTION, CAME OUT AS THE WINNER FOLLOWED BY GOLKAR PARTY THE WINNER OF 2004 ELECTION AND PDIP THE WINNER OF 1999 ELECTION Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 148.
    GOLONGAN KARYA (GOLKAR) PARTY WAS THE RULING PARTY UNDER THE NEW ORDER REGIME, AND PARTAI DEMOKRASI INDONESIA – PERJUANGAN (PDIP) OR THE INDONESIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (‘P’ STAND FOR P ERJUANGAN OR STRUGGLE) WAS FOUNDED BY MEGAWATI IN THE 1990s AS A VEHICLE OF REFORM AGENDA DURING THE NEW ORDER Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 149.
    DURING THE NEWORDER ONLY 3 PARTIES WERE ALLOWED TO EXIST: GOLONGAN KARYA (FUNCTIONAL GROUP) PARTAI PERSATUAN PEMBANGUNAN (UNITED DEVELOPMENT PARTY) : FUSSION OF PRE-NEW ORDER ISLAMIC PARTIES PARTAI DEMOKRASI INDONESIA (INDONESIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY): FUSSION OF PRE-NEW ORDER NATIONALIST AND CHRISTIAN PARTIES Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 150.
    WHEN MEGAWATI SUKARNOPUTRIWAS ELECTED AS CHAIRMAN OF PDI (INDONESIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY), THE NEW ORDER GOVERNMENT DID NOT RECOGNIZE HER VICTORY AND INSTEAD SUPPORTED HER RIVAL TO HOLD ANOTHER PARTY CONGRES AND NULIFIED THE EARLIER PARTY CONGRES DECISSION SO SHE ESTABLISHED HER OWN PARTY ADDING PERJUANGAN OR STRUGGLE HER PARTY WAS NOT RECOGNIZED, BUT AFTER THE FALL OF THE NEW ORDER, SHE PARTICIPATED IN THE 1999 ELECTION AND CAME OUT AS THE WINNER Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 151.
    THE SIGNIFICANT OFTHE 2009, ASIDE FROM THE RISE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, WAS THE EMERGENCE OF TWO NEW NATIONALIST ORIENTAD PARTIES: Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com GERINDRA: HANURA: FOUNDED BY PRABOWO SUBIANTO, RETIRED LT GENERAL, FORMER HEAD OF THE ARMY SPECIAL FORCES AND SON IN-LAW OF SUHARTO FOUNDED BY RETIRED GENERAL WIRANTO, FORMER COMMANDER OF THE ARMED FORCES AND ADC TO PRESIDENT SUHARTO
  • 152.
    THE OTHER SIGNIFICANCEWAS THE RISE OF WELFARE JUSTICE PARTY (PKS) THE MODERN BUT HIGHLY DOCTRINAL ISLAMIC PARTY THIS PARTY WAS SUPPORTED BY SCHOLARS, ACADEMICIANS, AND STUDENTS, WITH ISLAMIC LEANINGS, WHOSE PLATFORM WAS REFORM AND CLEAN GOVERNMENT THIS PARTY ALSO EMERGED AS WINNER IN SOME LOCAL ELECTIONS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 153.
    IN GENERAL, HOWEVERTHE MAKE UP OF NATIONALIST – ISLAMIC PARTIES BALANCE IN INDONESIA HAS NOT CHANGED IN INDONESIA’S POLITICAL HISTORY ISLAMIC PARTIES HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO REACH A TOTAL NUMBER OF MORE THAN 40% OF VOTES OR SEATS PARLIAMENT, EXCEPT IN THE FIRST ELECTION EVER HELD IN INDONESIA IN 1955 WHEN IT REACHED 44% ALTHOUGH 85% OF INDONESIA’S POPULATION IS MUSLIM Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 154.
    * In 1999:the party’s name was Partai Keadilan (Justice Party) Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com PARTY SEATS IN PARLIAMENT 2009 2004 1999 DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PD) 148 57 - FUNCTIONAL GROUP PARTY (GOLKAR) 107 128 120 INDONESIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY – STRUGGLE (PDI-P) 93 109 153 JUSTICE WELFARE PARTY (PKS)* 57 45 7 NATIONAL MESSAGE PARTY (PAN) 46 52 34 UNITED DEVELOP PARTY (PPP) 38 58 56 NATION AWAKENING PARTY (PKB) 28 52 51 GREAT INDONESIA MOVEMENT PARTY (GERINDRA) 25 - - PEOPLE CONSCIENCE PARTY (HANURA) 18 - - OTHER PARTIES - 49 41 TOTAL 560 550 462
  • 155.
    THE NATIONALIST ANDISLAMICS PARTIES BALANCE IN INDONESIA’S DEMOCRATIC ELECTION (PERCENTAGES OF VALID VOTES) *) THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDONESIA (PKI) WAS STILL IN EXISTENCE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com 1955 1999 2004 2005 Islamic parties 6 of 29 Parties: 44,01% 13 of 48 Parties: 28% 8 of 42 Parties: 38,99% 11 of 38 Parties: 29,3% Nationalist/non Islamic parties*) 23 of 29 Parties: 55,99% 35 of 48 Parties: 72% 16 of 24 Parties: 61,01% 27 of 38 Parties: 70,7%
  • 156.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 157.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Boediono Megawati Prabowo Jusuf Kalla Wiranto
  • 158.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com NO CANDIDATES VOTES PERCENTAGE 1 MEGAWATI-PRABOWO 32.548.105 26.79% 2 SBY-BOEDIONO 73.874.562 60.80% 3 JK-WIRANTO 15.081.814 12.41% TOTAL 121.504.481 100,00% STATISTICS VALID VOTES 121.504.581 NOT VALID VOTES 6.479.174 TOTAL VOTER 127.983.655 TOTAL VOTERS 176.441.434
  • 159.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com RANKING CANDIDATES VOTES PERCENTAGE 1 SBY-JUSUF KALLA 36.070.622 33.58% 2 MEGAWATI-HASYIM M. 28.186.780 26.24% 3 WIRANTO-SOLLAHUDIN W. 23.827.512 22.19% 4 AMIEN RAIS-SISWONO Y.H. 16.042.105 14.94% 5 HAMZAH H.-AGUM 3.276.001 3.05 TOTAL 107.403.020 100,00%
  • 160.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com RANKING CANDIDATES VOTES PERCENTAGE 1 SBY-JUSUF KALLA 69.266.350 60.62% 2 MEGAWATI-HASYIM M. 44.990.704 39.98% TOTAL 114.257.054 100,00% STATISTICS VALID VOTES 114.403.020 NOT VALID VOTES 2.405.651 TOTAL VOTES 116.662.705
  • 161.
    PD – GOLKAR*– PKS – PAN – PPP – PKB = 424 SEATS “ OPPOSITION” PARTIES PDIP – HANURA – GERINDRA = 136 SEATS GOLKAR WAS NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL COALITION PARTIES. ON OCTOBER 6, 2009, THE GOLKAR PARTY CONGRESS ELECTED ABURIZAL BAKRIE, COORDINATING MINISTER OF PEOPLE’S WELFARE IN SBY I CABINET. UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP GOLKAR JOINED THE GOVERNMENT “COALITION” Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 162.
    SBY COMPOSED HISCABINET WITH MINISTRIES FROM POLITICAL PARTIES AS WELL AS PROFFESIONALS THE POLITICAL PARTIES WERE GIVEN POSTS IN THE CABINET REFLECTING THEIR STRENGTH IN THE PARLIAMENT Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 163.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com NUMBER POST MINISTRIES PERCENTAGE POLITICAL PARTIES 22 64,71 PROFFESIONALS 12 35,29 TOTAL 34 100
  • 164.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com NO DEPT MINISTER PARTY 1 COORDINATING MINISTER FOR POLITICAL, LEGAL AND SECURITY AFFAIRS DJOKO SUYANTO PD 2 STATE SECRETARY SUDI SILALAHI PD 3 ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES DARWIN ZAHEDY PD 4 YOUTH AND SPORT ANDI MALLARANGENG PD 5 COOPERATIVES AND SMI SYARIFUDDIN HASAN PD 6 CULTURE AND TOURISM JERO WACIK PD 7 ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM EE MANGINDAAN PD 8 TRANSPORTATION FREDDY NUMBERI PD 9 COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TIFATUL SEMBIRING PKS 10 RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY SUHARNA SURAPRANATA PKS
  • 165.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com NO DEPT MINISTER PARTY 11 AGRICULTURE SUSWONO PKS 12 SOCIAL AFFAIRS SALIM SEGAF ALJUFRI PKS 13 COORDINATING MINISTER FOR ECONOMY HATTA RAJASA PAN 14 LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS PATRIALIS AKBAR PAN 15 FORESTRY ZULKIFLI HASAN PAN 16 COORDINATING MINISTER FOR PEOPLE’S WELFARE AGUNG LAKSONO GOLKAR 17 INDUSTRY MS HIDAYAT GOLKAR 18 MARINE RESOURCES AND FISHERIES FADEL MUHAMMAD GOLKAR 19 RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS SURYADHARMA ALI PPP 20 PEOPLE’S HOUSING SUHARSO MONOARFA PPP 21 LABOR AND TRANSMIGRATION MUHAIMIN ISKANDAR PKB 22 POOR VILLAGES DEVELOPMENT HELMI FAISHAL ZAINI PKB
  • 166.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com NO DEPT MINISTER BACKGROUND 1 HOME AFFAIRS GAMAWAN FAUZI BUREAUCRAT 2 FOREIGN AFFAIRS MARTY NATALEGAWA CARRIER DIPLOMAT 3 DEFENSE PURNOMO YUSGIANTORO BUREAUCRAT 4 FINANCE SRI MULYANI PROFESSOR 5 TRADE MARI ELKA PANGESTU PROFESSOR 6 PUBLIC WORKS DJOKO KIRMANTO BUREAUCRAT 7 TRANSPORTATION FREDDY NUMBERI VICEB ADMIRAL (Ret) 8 HEALTH ENDANG RAHAYU PROFESSOR 9 EDUCATION MOHAMMAD NUH PROFESSOR
  • 167.
    Day 4_GSAPS 2010www.ginandjar.com N0 DEPT MINISTER BACKGROUND 10 ENVIRONTMENT GUSTI MUHAMMAD HATTA PROFESSOR 11 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT LINDA AMALIA SARI CIVIL SOCIETY 12 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ARMIDA ALISJAHBANA PROFESSOR 13 STATE ENTERPRISES MUSTAFA ABUBAKAR BUREAUCRAT
  • 168.
    WITH SUCH AHUGE MARGIN OF VOTERS, SBY HAS A CLEAR MANDATE FROM THE PEOPLE FOR HIS SECOND TERM HE SET OUT WITH AN AGENDA FOR HIS FIRST 100 DAYS, TO DESIGN THE PROGRAMMES AND SET THE PACE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEAR Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 169.
    THE FIRST SBYPRESIDENCY HAD TO FACE A TREMENDOUS CHALENGE JUST WEEKS AFTER ITS INAGURATION IN OCTOBER 2004 THE ACEH AND NORTH SUMATERA TSUNAMI IN DECEMBER HAD TAKEN THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 THOUSANDS PEOPLE, DESTROYED CITIES AND TOWNS, ROADS, HARBOURS, HOUSES, BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS, FACTORIES, SHOPS AND RICE FIELD IT TOOK BILLIONS OF DOLLAR INTERNATIONAL AND COOPERATION TO RECOVER Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 170.
    THE SECOND SBYADMINISTRATION HAD TO FACE SERIOUS SCANDALS, ALSO IN ITS FIRST WEEKS THE LIZARD - CROCODILE CASE THE CENTURY BANK CASE Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 171.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 172.
    THE LIZARD –CROCODILE CASE, INVOLVED THE COMMISSION FOR CORUPTION ERADICATION ( KOMISI PEMBERANTASAN KORUPSI-KPK ) REPRESENTED BY LIZARD, AGAINST THE POLICE REPRESENTED BY CROCODILE. THERE WAS AN EFFORT TO CRIMINALIZE TWO MEMBER OF KPK, FOR TAPPING THE PHONE OF A HIGH RANKING POLICE OFFICER, SUSPECT IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION THERE WAS A PUBLIC CRY AND STREET DEMONSTRATIONS BY STUDENTS, AND ALMOST ONE MILLION FACEBOOKERS Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 173.
    EVENTUALLY THE PRESIDENTUNDER ADVICE OF A TEAM (TEAM 8), WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED TO FIND THE TRUTH IN THE CASE, TO REINSTATE THE TWO MEMBERS OF KPK AND FIRED THE VICE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND HEAD OF THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE POLICE WHO WERE SUSPECTED TO BE INVOLVE THE SCANDAL IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE VIRTUAL PEOPLE’S POWER HAD INFLUENCED POLICY DECISSION OF THE GOVERNMENT Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 174.
    Graduate School ofAsia and Pacific Studies University of Waseda, Tokyo-JAPAN 2010
  • 175.
    THE CENTURY BANKCASE ORIGINATED IN THE 2008 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS. INITIALLY IT WAS A RESPONSE OF THE GOVERNMENT TO A SMALL BANK HAVING DIFFICULTY IN MAINTAINING ITS SOLUENCY THE GOVERNMENT WAS CONVINCED THAT IT WAS CAUSED BY THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND IF IT WAS NOT DEAL WITH IMMEDIATELY IT COULD TURN INTO A SYSTEMIC BANKING FAILURE, REMINISCENT OF THE 1998 FINANCIAL CRISIS Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 176.
    ALTHOUGH ORIGINALLY THEBANK NEEDED ONLY ABOUT EQUIVALENT OF $60 MILLION OF CASH INJECTION, THE SUPPORT OR BAIL OUT HAD RISEN TO MORE THAN $600 MILLION. THE SUPREME AUDIT BOARD (BADAN PEMERIKSA KEUANGAN-BPK) CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION AND DETERMINED THAT THERE WERE MORAL HAZARD INVOLVED AND LAW VIOLATIONS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 177.
    THE BANK WASWEAK AND FULL OF FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES FROM THE BEGINNING. ITS OWNERS HAD BEEN SYPHONING THE BANK MONEY FOR SOMETIME THE BAIL OUT CREATED PUBLIC OUTCRY, PROMPTING THE PARLIAMENT TO ESTABLISH A SPECIAL COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE THE KPK ALSO HAS STARTED TO LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF CRIMINAL ACTS. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 178.
    THE GOVERNMENT HOWEVERMAINTAINED THAT IT WAS A COURSE THAT COULD NOT BE AVOIDED TO PREVENT A SYSTEMIC BANKING GRISIS. MANY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD ALSO TOOK SIMILAR MEASURES, BAILING OUT FAILING BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO PREVENT THE COLLAPSE OF THE ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 179.
    ONE ASPECT OFTHE CASE WAS THE LEGAL BASE FOR THE BAIL OUT. AT THE ONSET OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN 2008 THE GOVERNMENT ISSUED A GOVERNMENT REGULATION IN LIEU OF LAW ( PERATURAN PEMERINTAH PENGGANTI UNDANG-UNDANG- PERPU ) THAT EMPOWERED THE MINISTER OF FINANCE TO TAKE THE NECESARRY ACTION TO COPE WITH THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. ANY POLICY TAKEN IN THAT CONTEXT CAN NOT BE CRIMINALIZED. BUT THE GOVERNMENT REGULATION IN LIEU OF LAW HAD TO BE APPROVED BY THE PARLIAMENT IN THE NEXT SESSION. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 180.
    THE PARLIAMENT HOWEVERTURNED IT DOWN. THEREFORE ASIDE FROM THE IRREGULARITIES AND FRAUD FOUND IN THE BANK’S FINANCES, THE LEGALITY OF THE BAIL OUT AFTER THE PARLIAMENT REJECTED IT WAS BEING QUESTIONING. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 181.
    SO THE GOVERNMENTRESORTED TO USING ANOTHER LAW, THE LAW OF CREDIT INSURANCE TO JUSTIFY THE MEASURE. HOWEVER THE LEGALITY IS STILL BEING DEBATED. Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com
  • 182.
    BECAUSE OF THEPUBLIC CONTROVERSY OF THE TWO CASES IN ITS FIRST 100 DAYS, SBY II GOVERNMENT HAD TO DIVERT A LOT OF ENERGY TO CONTAIN THE CASE FROM GETTING INTO A FULL BLOWN POLITICAL CRISIS IF SBY II GOVERNMENT CAN OVERCOME THE CRISIS AND CAN RETURN TO DEVOTE TIME, EVERGY AND RESOURCES TO DEALING WITH THE AFFAIRS OF STATE, WITH ITS BIG MANDATE INDONESIA CAN WELL CONTINUE ITS COURSE IN IMPROVING THE WALFARE OF THE PEOPLE WHILE CONSOLIDATING ITS DEMOCRACY Day 4_GSAPS 2010 www.ginandjar.com