However, to date Indonesia’s growth performance has remained solid. GDP growth in the first quarter of 2012 was 6.3 percent year-on-year, down slightly from 6.5 percent in 2011 as a whole. Consumption held up well in the first quarter of 2012, investment growth came down while net exports made a negative contribution to growth.
Indonesia was among the top 10 improvers globally in this year’s Doing Business report. Indonesia’s ranking improved from 106 in 2016 to 91 in 2017, thanks in particular to a record seven reforms that eased starting a business, getting electricity paying taxes, registering property, getting credit, enforcing contracts and trading across borders.
Electricity price hikes in 2017 for 900 VA users have contributed to an increase in inflation to 3.9 percent for the first five months of the year. The effects of higher energy costs have been partially offset by lower food inflation. This year’s inflation is expected to average 4.3 percent, remaining within Bank Indonesia’s inflation target band.
Tourism is a promising sector to boost the country’s growth. Growth in this sector could help unlock private investment, create jobs, boost exports and guide infrastructure investments. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council, every $1 million in travel and tourism spending supports around 200 jobs and $1.7 million in GDP for Indonesia.
Buku ini terdiri dari sejumlah inovasi masyarakat di berbagai daerah di tanah air. Berbagai inovasi yang terangkum mencakup bidang sarana dan prasarana, kegiatan-kegiatan di bidang ekonomi, pertanian, dan banyak lagi. Semoga buku ini dapat menjadi motivator dan katalisator bagi kita semua, termasuk pemerintah daerah, dunia usaha, kalangan akademis, lembaga swadaya masyarakat, masyarakat umum, s…
Indonesia’s real GDP growth rose to 5.3 percent as domestic demand strengthened. Private and government consumption accelerated thanks to higher subsidy and personnel spending, as well as a pick-up in credit growth, stable inflation and strong job markets.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has the commitment to promote equality at the work place, including equality between men and women. This is a part of the ILO’s core mandate, and is specifically reiterated through two international ILO instruments considered fundamental to the enjoyment of labour rights: the Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) and the Discrimination (Empl…
The purpose of this report is to identify the nature and key constraints to poverty reduction in today's Indonesia and to provide concrete recommendations on how Indonesia can move forward to achieve its poverty reduction objectives. It aims to contribute to the policy debate and decision-making process in Indonesia by putting forth: (i) new and more comprehensive analysis of empirical poverty …
This paper draws on a rapid qualitative assessment of the impact of the financial crisis in Indonesia to generate hypotheses about the potential national impacts. We test these hypotheses using nationally representative labor force surveys from before and after the onset of the financial crisis. We find that Indonesia weathered the storm rather well: there is no evidence for increased school dr…
Following a request for cooperation in the field of provincial level employment analysis and employment planning from the BAPPENAS (National Planning Board of Indonesia) and an agreement with the Provincial Government in Maluku, an extensive employment diagnostic analysis was carried out. This exercise comprised two phases. The first phase consisted of a thorough situation analysis of patterns …