The Indonesian Economy in Transition: The International Context

This is a paper of a speech delivered at the "Lessons from the Indonesian Transition: Setting a Future Reform Agenda" conference in Jakarta in February 2004, organized by the UN Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery.

In the paper, Peter McCawley examines some crucial questions facing Indonesia and the region in general: What are the main features of the international economic environment that Indonesia currently faces? In particular, how does the international environment today differ from the situation at the time of the last major transition in Indonesia when President Soeharto formed the New Order? What lessons can be learned from the experiences of other countries passing through a transition process? What are the implications of this range of different experiences for economic policy and for current planning in Indonesia?

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