Economic and Social Change in Indonesia

In Figure 2 it is evident that Indonesia’s cost of living, as reflected by the CPI, has been significantly deteriorating over the last 8 years. Although research argues that CPI may not be an effective indicator of the cost of living for a developing country such as Indonesia (East Asia, 2015). In contrast measuring the percentage of a household budget that goes to food is could be a good indicator. Since 2000, the percentage of household budget spent on food has declined, meaning higher expenditure on discretionary goods and services. This indicates that Indonesia’s urban regions are getting richer faster than the impression expressed with the CPI (East Asia, 2015). This is also reflected in figure 1, as the significant increase of mobile phone subscriptions is a good proxy of increased living standards as a mobile phone is a discretionary living cost. This is a result of the Indonesian growth rate earning a higher level of surplus income to spend on more luxury items.

According to AAFC (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2010) due to its extensive natural resources and geographical location, in the way of several of the world’s most important trading routes, Indonesia represents the Southeast Asia’s largest economy. On a global perspective, Indonesia is the fourth most populated country and has the largest Muslim population, besides being the world’s largest archipelago, with around 17,000 islands. The country’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is also showing considerable and stable growth throughout the years and unemployment rates dropped considerably (AAFC, 2011).

2006, p. 18). Thus the Indonesian population reached the conditions which sustain on the other development supporting factors.

My research will be based on Political, Economic, and Social Organization of Singapore—an industrialist city-state.  Even though Singapore 's history dates from the 11th century, the island was little known to the West until the 19th century. Singapore is one of the World 's largest ports, because the city of Singapore has become a major port, with trade exceeding that of Malaya 's, Malacca and Penang combined. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the advent of steamships launched an era of prosperity for Singapore as transit trade expanded throughout Southeast Asia (Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 2010). Singapore is a very

Indonesia’s industrialisation policies play an important role in supporting the achievement of high and sustained economic growth. The move towards export promotion from import substitution in the mid-1980s succeeded in restructuring the economy from agriculture to semi-industrious.

Indonesia has been independent for just over half a century. In this short time the country has had to adjust to the demands of the modern world.

Indonesia has a massive population of 249.9 million people. Indonesia’s human rights are mostly abused because the government hasn’t done enough to help protect those rights. Indonesia has the largest economy in south East Asia and is one of the emerging market economies. Some people in Indonesia are wealthy but the majority of people in Indonesia are poor.

Indonesia can best be described as a powerful emerging market. Indonesia has managed to relinquish its former status as a third world country and make a name for itself in the world market. Currently, it is the third largest populated country in Asia with 254.5 million, right behind China and India respectively.5 It has the sixteenth largest economy as of 2014 based off

Indonesia is the largest economy in South-East Asia; it has progressed into a decentralized electoral democracy and has managed to reduce its overall poverty from 17 percent in 2004 to 11 percent in 2014. However, despite their steady economy and major improvements, nearly 40 percent of Indonesia lives just above the poverty line. Additionally, Indonesian public services and health standards fall behind other middle-income countries; these facts combined with their high rates of maternal mortality, child malnutrition, and insufficient access to education place Indonesia in the developing or Third World realm. Indonesia’s history, geographic position, abundance of natural resources, wars and conquest, as well as trade has fundamentally shaped the economic and political structure. Furthermore, leadership influence, intervening forces, and its colonial masters have also played a large role in constructing the systems of this developing country.

Southeast Asia since the end of the period of colonization of the foreign powers has entered a new and critical stage of economic, political and social development. It was characterised by rapid industrialization, emergence of powerful, centralised authoritarian regimes such as ASEAN and complex bureaucratic structures together with

This essay has analyzed the common policies that contributed to the Miracle as well as the contrasting policies between the HPAEs and its developing neighbors in Southeast Asia. It can be argued that a mixture of reasons as to why the developing economies struggled for decades stemmed from their fundamentally weak governmental structure, nepotism resulting in ineffective policies, and domestic conflicts led to their weakened economies. The historical context behind these nations cannot be ignored, and thus led to their struggle in implementing similar effective policies that successfully transformed its neighbors’ economies in East

The Asian financial crisis of 1997 had a major impact on the regions development as it was the end of the East Asian economic miracle, a time that showed staggering economic growth throughout the Asia Pacific. However, despite evidence that the economic development has slowed down within the region, it can be argued that the 1997 crisis encouraged intra-regional co-operation and collaboration, developing intra-regional trade and encouraged the creation of ASEAN

Indonesia is the world’s third largest democracy and the world’s largest Muslim country. The country is also the largest economy in Southeast Asia and a member of the G-20 major economies. (G-20, 2015) The bilateral relationship between the United Sates and Indonesia is significant if for no other reason than the first two facts mentioned. The cooperation between the United States and Indonesia (a successful model of a Muslim nation practicing democracy) can have far-reaching effects past Indonesia’s regional Southeast Asian boarders. In this assessment of Indonesia, I will discuss the significance of Indonesia to America and regional effect on its Southeast Asian neighbors more in-depth.

Economic development in Indonesia began in early 1970. Indonesia had a low income per capita compared with other developing countries such as India, Bangladesh or Nigeria. As one of the poorest country in the world, Indonesia faced many challenges to cater its inhabitants, for example more than half of the population was living in absolute poverty. This condition made Indonesia had a low life expectancy because lack of health infrastructure such as hospital and medical workers. Some regions faced a disease outbreak that caused by poor sanitation accompany by poor nutrient. In education, many adult people did not join in a basic education level, such as primary and secondary school. It made the illiteracy rate higher among workforce age.

Higher standards of living initially enjoyed buy a small portion of society has created a want for these standards amongst the larger community resulting in an overall increased competitiveness in the country. Malaysians are now seen putting more effort and time into work; women are also focusing more on their careers and playing a more prominent role in ‘Corporate Malaysia’ – this (as with in many other societies) has started urbanisation of society and atomisation of families.