This paper is about Indonesia as it seeks to manage the fall out of the global financial crisis. It is Indonesia’s second major economic challenge in less than ten years. The first brought about systemic collapse and the advent of its second wave of democracy.The current global economic crisis may also have both immediate and long term ramifications on the social and political landscape which are often not well understood or deliberately ignored.
This report is the outcome of an assignment given by the Director of the BRR Aceh-Nias to the authors of this paper under UNDP financial assistance. Both the terms of reference of the contract as well as verbal instruction by Mr. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the BRR Director, instructed the drafting team of this report to think at the policy level, without getting down to operational micro issues except when relevant to the argument being made or in support of a prticular factual proposition advanced in the report.
This paper has tried to present a case for an evolutionary approach to dealing with corruption. The fight against corruption in public life is a long fight and there are no outright victories. It seems to have been present, in some form, at all times: from the earliest empires to nation states today.
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purpose of this paper is to identify the nature of these concerns and
to find mechanisms that the donor community could employ to respond
creatively to the challenges that are likely to emerge in this domain.
