Policy Research
To avoid the middle income trap, Indonesia needs to start shifting its economy to highervalue products, which requires a workforce that has an increasingly high level of knowledge, skills, and competencies. This implies that Indonesia needs to put more serious effort into the improvement of the quality of its education system.
Poverty is one of humanity's greatest tragedies. Various efforts have already been made, but whatever strong efforts have been taken have not been able to overcome the problem of poverty or its impact due to the complexity of the underlying causes of poverty.
A first step towards meeting Indonesia’s ambition for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2019 was made in 2005, with the introduction of subsidised social health insurance for the poor. With the planned transition to UHC in mind, HEFPA has examined lessons that can be drawn from the experience of extending subsidised coverage to the poor.
This paper reviews the development of social security provision in Indonesia, which has evolved from very little in its early years to the privilege of formal sector workers during the New Order period to universal coverage, at least in principle, in the current period.
Good governance is an important aspect of the implementation of regional autonomy. Experts are of the opinion that decentralization can support good governance because, inter alia, decentralization opens greater opportunity for civil society to participate in the monitoring of government policy.
