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Indonesia
EXAMPLES OF OUR IMPACT
- USAID has improved education for more than 346,000 students in the last five years.
- USAID has funded training for approximately 25,000 volunteers, enabling them to recognize and report avian influenza.
- USAID programs helped Indonesia ensure successful 2009 parliamentary and presidential elections.
USAID/INDONESIA SITE
indonesia.usaid.gov
CONTACTS
Acting Mission Director
Glenn Anders
American Embassy Jakarta
Unit 8135 USAID
FPO AP 96520-8135
Tel: (011-62-21) 3435-9300
Indonesia Desk Officer
Robert Birkenes
Tel: (202) 712-4997
E-mail: rbirkenes@usaid.gov
USAID assistance supports improved maternal and neonatal health care and reduced mortality by improving access to quality services. (Photo: USAID/HSP)
Overview
As the world’s fourth most populous country, with abundant but diminishing natural resources, a diverse population fragmented along a volcanic archipelago, and 115 million people living on less than $2 a day, Indonesia’s future is both bright and challenging. Indonesia is a model in modern nation-building, with the world’s third largest democracy and the largest Muslim population. USAID invests in Indonesia’s future: in children and youth, in jobs and income for poor families, and in sustaining natural resources and governance reform.
Programs
Investing in People: Education
Student performance in Indonesia remains lower than in neighboring countries. To help Indonesian schools achieve better results and to prepare Indonesia’s young people for jobs in the global economy, USAID is working to transform the classroom experience into one of energy and inquiry. USAID’s “active learning” and “school-based management” techniques have been introduced nationally in secular and Islamic schools. More than 100,000 junior secondary school students and out-of-school youth are learning employment-related life skills while working toward school completion or its equivalency. The Indonesian government is determined to improve higher education and upgrade universities. USAID is focusing on improved management of the national university system as well as partnerships between U.S. and Indonesian universities. These partnerships renew a long tradition of U.S. universities helping to prepare the future of Indonesia’s public and private sector employees
Governing Justly and Democratically
Indonesia’s vibrant democracy is now over a decade old, and fair elections are well established. In 2009, USAID programs promoting voter education, election administration, and political party development helped ensure successful parliamentary and presidential elections. USAID programs have enabled the passage of freedom of information legislation. Decentralization of government authority to more than 500 local governments is progressing. USAID programs tackle corruption by strengthening accountability institutions and engaging civil society organizations to promote a culture of accountability. USAID supports justice sector reform and legal education and works to enhance the effectiveness of the national legislature.
Economic Growth
Long-term underinvestment in the agriculture sector has limited opportunities for better jobs and income for rural poor families. USAID helps to create jobs and raise incomes in the rural sector, including agricultural production and marketing. USAID will be funding a public works program for rural small-scale infrastructure. In the horticulture, coffee, and cocoa sectors, USAID is helping to increase productivity, improve agricultural support systems, reduce market access barriers, and promote growth policies, including an extensive grant program to empower communities and provide economic stimulus. USAID is working with the Indonesian government to improve economic policy, strengthen regulations for financial markets, and expand the ability of non-bank financial markets to support economic activity.
Investing in People: Improved Health
USAID’s commitment to improving health in Indonesia makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Assistance supports improved maternal and neonatal health care and reduced mortality by improving access to quality services. Programs to mitigate the spread of HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis have been extended to some of the country’s most vulnerable groups and most remote areas. To address avian and pandemic influenza, USAID has established animal health surveillance and disease control networks across 70 percent of the nation’s districts, training more than 25,000 village volunteers and 2,150 animal health officers.
Investing in People: Environmental Preservation
Indonesia has some of the greatest combined marine and terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. It also has among the highest rates of deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and unsustainable fishing practices. USAID is working to improve natural resource management and address climate change problems by strengthening forest and marine governance, encouraging the adoption of best practices by companies and communities, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, promoting coastal climate adaptation and more efficient and clean energy use, supporting the conservation of biodiversity, and increasing access to clean water and sanitation.
Humanitarian Assistance
Thousands of Indonesians benefit from annual USAID-funded relief operations in this disaster-prone country. Building on experience in Aceh with the tsunami and in Yogyakarta with the earthquake, the U.S. Government took a leading and active role in disaster relief and recovery after the 2009 Padang earthquake and is planning more support there, including a school reconstruction effort.
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