Indonesi The Largest Economy Of South East Asia

Enslaved, starved, drained, and murdered. These were the conditions that the citizens of Indonesia had endured while being forcefully colonized by the Dutch East India Trading Company. The Dutch along with other European countries began the forced colonization around the world. Dutch and British East India Trading Companies were the most powerful; however, they differed from each other greatly. While the British were slow and gradual during their takeover of India, the Dutch heavily contrasted with that by rapidly wiping out and conquering the Islands of Indonesia with much tyranny and bloodshed. The Dutch Colonization possessed massive injustice against Indonesian people and greatly harmed them in two major ways, exploitation and violence.

Before Western European influences had power over Southeast Asia, what is known as Indonesia used to be an archipelago which consisted of individual islands and plantations ruled by different empires. Occasionally living in peaceful coexistence yet at times being at war with each other due to the lack of social and political unity that Indonesia has in todays society. Integrated trade networks, began developing starting from the early evidence of Asian history. Being connected to trade networks was an advantage for empires to gain wealth and resources, necessary to become a powerful influence. the more foreign influences managed to enter, this development as these trade networks in the archipelago became more global, eventually lead to the colonial state. A significant matter to the history of Indonesia, it generally centres on the western part of the

The Dutch Republic began expanding in the seventeenth century. In 1602, the Dutch East India Company competed with Portugal for control over Asian and slave trade; the 1621 West India Company would be created. In 1624, the first

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.

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

Even though, in some region the violence has been occurred in small scale, but this Southeast Asian archipelago of 17,000 islands has effort to keep their ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika’ or unity in diversity. What makes Indonesia so unique is the diversity doesn’t come from the migration of other nations rather than mixture of thousand ethnics, languages, cultures, traditions, local religions and six world religions have co-existed for centuries. Therefore, in the future, the challenges of Indonesia are both maintaining global existence and national integrity at the same

RELATION(S) OF FIVE MAJOR FACTORS IN INFLUENCING POLITICAL SYSTEM AND TO THE PEOPLE IN INDONESIA

In the beginning of Soeharto’s period until the end of Soeharto’s period, Indonesia centralized the national regime. Indonesia determined to apply a policy of decentralization that became effective on January 1st, 2001. This essay would explain the failure of Indonesian decentralization, whereas this essay only has one area of focus, the failure of distribution of power. Why decentralization in Indonesia has failed? The main factor of this failure has been started in the first time Indonesia apply decentralization after 1998 tragedy whereas the end of Soeharto’s period and the end of centralized government. After that tragedy Indonesia use decentralization until now. But, Indonesia applies this system in sudden. Another country around

The macroeconomic conditions of Indonesia are moderately challenging. The World Bank (2012) categories Indonesia as a lower middle income country. The CIA World Factbook (2012) notes that the country "still struggles with poverty and unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, a complex regulatory environment and unequal resource distribution among regions."

The countries that belong to the developing regions of the world have been confronted with a number of distinctive challenges within such a globalized economy, while their respective financial as well as their trade links have been closely tangled with those of powerful, developed countries in which it governed the international economic institutions. This paper outlined the key elements of the post-World War II development model of Indonesia. At the same time, there will be identification of the major changes as well as to the key theoretical influences.

Going back further in history on why the Dutch decided to colonize what is now modern Indonesia was because they were violently attacked by their neighbor, Germany, for five years. After having dealt with Germany, the Dutch finally received some reinforcements. With the help of reinforcements, the Dutch were liberated. After they

The population of Indonesia since the year 2014 is mostly Urban (53%) which just tops the Rural (47%) population. The rate of urbanization has a 2.69% of annual rate of change between the years 2010-2015. Since 2014 this are the major urban areas; Jakarta (10.176 million) which is the capital of Indonesia, Surabaya (2.834 million), Bandung (2.513 million), Medan (2.182 million), Semarang (1.614 million), and Palembang (1.454 million). The information above is important but in this paper the main objective that I will be discussing is the political system, economic data, factors that keep are present that have the population growing and or regressing and the relationship between the United states and Indonesia.

Indonesia is the largest economy in the Southeast Asian economic region, which has been strongly influenced by globalisation over recent decades through increased international trade, foreign investment and rapid industrialisation. Globalisation refers to the integration between different countries and economies and the increased impact of international influences on all aspect of life and economic activity. Indonesia has a mixed economy where both the private and government sector play significant roles in the country 's economy, which enables the country to be highly influenced by free market forces, while ultimately protecting the economy from

Despite the obvious economic growth being experienced in Indonesia, the quality for life still remains sub-par, with around 12% of Indonesians still living in poverty. As Indonesia becomes a more prominent figure in the globalisation, it seems that its GDP becomes less evenly spread, as the majority of its wealth is gained through exporting which is then shared among only a select few. Indonesia’s uneven distribution of income reflects its HDI of around 0.68, with an income of 3,475.25 USD per capita and with only 75% of Indonesia’s population having access to electricity. This considers the education levels of Indonesians which is very low, with an average of 5.8 years of schooling per person and an average female population with secondary education or greater of 36% and 46% for males. Figure2 Shows the increasing rates of education in Indonesia which are relatively low in comparison to other countries. This reflects the workforce of Indonesia which is predominately involved in production and agriculture which are labour intensive and not tertiary or specialised jobs which require a good education.

Indonesia has continued to be the largest economy in Southeast Asia with a very diverse archipelago nation as well as ethnicity. With more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia is the 15th largest country in the world. Moreover, Indonesia also ranks 4th for the most populous country with population estimated at 260 million in 2016 (World Population Review, 2016). From the total population, it is estimated around 56.7% of population lives on Java, the most populous island and in which the busiest economic activities happen. In terms of economy, Indonesia is the world’s 8th largest economy based on Purchasing Power Parity with GDP per capita of $2,842,241 million in 2015 (World Bank, 2016). Surabaya as the second largest metropolitan city by population and the capital of East Java Province, make Surabaya one of the busiest port in the country.