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Indonesia
DFID works closely with the Government of Indonesia and other donors to provide effective development assistance to poor people in Indonesia, with the aim of meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We also provide humanitarian and reconstruction assistance in response to emergencies.
Country facts
- Population = 221 million (2004)
- Poverty (number of people living below $1 a day) = 14 million
- $2 a day figure = approx 117 million (54% of population)
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita = US$1,250
- Life expectancy = 66 years (2002-2005)
- Literacy rates = 90.38%
- Malnutrition = 6.5 million (approx 35% - no real accurate data)
DFID in Indonesia
Poverty
- One of our flagship programmes is the Decentralisation Support Facility (DSF). The DSF is a multi-donor office set up in early 2005 to test new ways to coordinate international development assistance in support of Indonesia’s decentralisation programme. This initiative represents new institutional arrangements being put in place at country level in pursuit of the commitments made in Paris on aid effectiveness in March 2005.
The DSF aims to put the Government of Indonesia (GoI) firmly in the lead in setting the strategic framework, and will facilitate GoI’s efforts to bring donors together around a common strategy. The DSF is a real and virtual office, which offers a range of common services and incentives to government, civil society, and other donors. Through a mix of Technical Assistance and programmes, the DSF will work to increase support to local government officials and civil society organisations. DFID has provided £5 million in support to Phase 1 (2005-06). Ministers have just agreed £25 million for Phase 2 (DSF) over the next three years.- DFID is providing £19 million to support Indonesia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Programme (PRSP), which aims to strengthen the capability of central and local government in Indonesia to understand and address the causes of poverty and vulnerability.
Health and Maternal Health
- To help Indonesia make progress towards the MDG on maternal health, we are providing £9 million to support UNICEF’s new Maternal Mortality Project, and £4.2 million to support a new Safer Motherhood Project with
Gesellschaft fűr Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ).
- We are providing £25 million in support of a large HIV and AIDS Programme with
- A new £2 million Tuberculosis Programme with the
Environment and Governance
- The Multi-stakeholder Forestry Programme (MFP) (£24 million over 2000-2006) aims to empower a wide group of stakeholders and help promote an environment in which the poor can earn improved livelihoods from, and gain a greater role in the management of, forest resources.
- The UK is providing £4.7 million to the Partnership to Support Governance Reform. This will support improved government systems, which are transparent, accountable and reflect wider civil society participation in governance processes.
- We are also providing £2 million to the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit (CPRU), through a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) trust fund. The CPRU aims to assist Government and civil society to design crisis sensitive policies, mechanisms and programmes to reduce the vulnerability of communities in key areas.
Tsunami and Humanitarian aid
Following the Tsunami, the UK committed £75 million for emergency and relief activity for affected countries, including Indonesia.
DFID has contributed £5 million so far to the Multi Donor Fund (MDF) for Aceh and Nias, which supports the Government’s strategy for reconstruction. We are planning to commit a further £33 million to MDF between 2006 and 2009. The MDF supports an integrated approach to community recovery including: the provision of housing, land titles and community infrastructure; district and provincial level infrastructure and transport; capacity building for local actors; and projects which support the sustainable management of the environment.
Other tsunami recovery related programmes we are supporting include:
- a £562,000 project with
- £6 million over four years in technical assistance to the World Bank’s Support for Poor and Disadvantaged Areas (SPADA) programme to provide procurement and financial management services in the first six months of the project that will help to deliver improved economic infrastructure and social services to areas recovering from the earthquake, the tsunami and from conflict, working through district governments.
- £10 million to UNDP in support of the livelihoods component of the Emergency Response and Transitional Recovery (ERTR) programme which has helped people get back to work, through cash for work programmes, labour intensive, mostly manual, labour, such as clearing debris and waste left by the tsunami and recycling it, reactivation of home industries and small trades, and improving economic infrastructure such as markets, fish harbours and access roads.
- £4 million though the World Bank to the Kecamatan Development Project (KDP), which provides block grants directly to community groups so that they fund priority development interventions such as rebuilding key infrastructure destroyed by the tsunami.
- £4 million to the Asia Development Bank’s (ADB) Community Water Services and Health Project to improve sustained access to safe drinking water supplies and sanitation, and better hygiene behaviour in selected low-income communities in rural areas of Aceh and Northern Sumatra.
In response to the major earthquake in Yogyakarta and Central Java on 27 May 2006, DFID contributed £5 million in emergency assistance. We are now contributing a further £5 million for longer term recovery and reconstruction. The funds will be pooled with those of five other donors in the Java Reconstruction Fund (JRF).
Civil Society
Projects in Indonesia funded under DFID’s Civil Society Challenge Fund:
- Building the Capacity of Indonesian Civil Society - £ 400,000 (2004-2007). This project will enable Indonesian civil society to have its opinions and expertise considered in EU Decision-Making Processes Relating to the EC Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade.
- Environmental Justice Foundation Charitable Trust: Illegal Fishing in Indonesia - £ 55,700 (2006-2007). To enhance local capacity and enable civil society to participate more fully in influencing decision-making processes that will improve the governance of natural resources and protect the marine environment and the livelihoods thus sustained. To raise awareness at all levels of the need to develop effective measures to combat illegal fishing.
- Fair Deal for Forest Dependant Civil Society: Innovation in the commercial forestry sector - £344,000 (2006-2007). To enable civil society to benefit from international demand for ethical forestry products by supporting them in making the commercial sector responsible for compliance with local and national legislation.
Links
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detailed map of Indonesia
Last updated: 12 February 2007
