Indonesia
The island nation of Indonesia is of immense importance. It
contains a substantial part of the world's untapped resources in
energy, minerals and agriculture, and its huge tropical forests
could have a substantial impact – negative or positive – on global
efforts to combat climate change.
Indonesia has been a democracy since 1999, and the current
president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is its first democratically
elected leader. However, much of the population remains poor – more
than half of Indonesians live below the international poverty line –
and vulnerable to natural disaster: since December 2004, Indonesia
has suffered from a massive tsunami and two major earthquakes.
Find out more in Key facts: Indonesia.
DFID’s main challenges in Indonesia are:
- more accountable institutions
- poverty reduction
- climate change.
How we've helped
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Hygiene and sanitation are not subjects that normally appeal to young readers - but through its fun stories written by children themselves, Percik Junior magazine is helping to change that.
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How an Indonesian tribal leader went all the way to the European Parliament to save his country's forests from criminal gangs.
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Although Indonesia's HIV/AIDS epidemic is currently concentrated in a few high risk communities, it is vital that infection rates don't escalate within these groups, and that the epidemic doesn't cross over into the general population. DFID is currently funding a project which helps to get condoms and other essential HIV services to one at-risk group: sex workers in Malang, East Java.
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By the time President Suharto resigned in 1998, Indonesia’s economy was in tatters and the country was riven by conflict. Over three decades of authoritarian rule meant that few people within Indonesian society had experience of how to make democracy work.The DFID-supported Multistakeholder Forestry Programme (MFP) focussed on the problems threatening the nation’s forests, but its wider ambition was to help build a democratic state in Indonesia.
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