Economy of Indonesia

Those three challenges may impede the achievement of economy, efficient, and effectiveness in state asset management. Civil society needs to be involved in take care of state asset. The Government of Indonesia has many assets in the form of land widespread in many places. Especially for the idle land, it is very easily occupied if land supervision is weak. Land that has been occupied…

The Republic of Indonesia is a country located in Southeast Asia near the equator. Indonesia is known as the largest archipelagic nation because it has a total of 17,508 islands. Indonesia is also known for the fourth most populous country in the world with a total population of more than 238 million(“Basic Facts”). The GDP of Indonesia in 2015 was $859 billion where United States has $17.95 trillion(CIA). That shows that Indonesia is still a developing country. Indonesia is rich in natural…

My motivation for pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC San Diego (UCSD) emanates from my lifelong goal to be a leading scholar in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the…

Although not much can be derived from the literature concerning this topic, Indonesia has had a mixed record within the discourse (Stubbs 2009, p.7; Hayashi 2010, pp.51–55). Vu (2007, pp.44–47) contends that Indonesia can be regarded as a DS due to the state developmental structures. This notion is also supported by a number of other scholars (Gainsborough, 2009:1318; Leftwich, 1995, 2010) albeit…

terrorizing 347 years, Indonesia is finally free. Free, but affected. Dutch had left an imprint in Indonesia in so many ways you can't even imagine. The tactics of the Dutch on taking over Indonesia were very intelligent and the impacts it had made in Indonesia both intellectually and economically were very drastic. To discuss in-depth about the thesis above, the following topics would be explained in the paragraphs below. The Dutch's journey throughout their colonization period in Indonesia and…

that workers are treated fairly and humanely in order for the benefits of globalization to be shared universally. In Indonesia, the Labor Ministry, a government institution, is responsible for enforcing all standards, such as wages, hours, and working conditions, and implementing penalties when these standards are violated (“Indonesia Human Rights”, 2015). Each province of Indonesia has their own minimum wage, which is based on the amount deemed appropriate for the workers to live decently. The…

Palm oil is a type of edible oil that comes from the palm fruit. The palm tree originated from Africa, but can grow anywhere with abundant rainfall and warm temperatures. Most of the world's palm oil is exported from Malaysia and Indonesia, but can be grown in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia. Palm oil is used in many products, ranging from margarine to washing powder, and is found in every one of two grocery products. Due to an increasing demand for bio-fuel and the palm oil's…

only produced by the flame of trees, but also smouldering peat releasing huge carbon and persistent smoke (Gaveau 2014). Consequently, Indonesia’s carbon stock degradation reaches 217,000 tonnes per year (FAO 2011) Some parties get benefits from Indonesia deforestation like big palm-oil company and small scale farmers because of the lower cost they get in freeing the land than by sustainable method (Howes and Wyrwoll 2012). However, costs of deforestation of course highly affected on local and…

sixty per cent on the entire forest has been transformed into oil palm, in addition to a minimum of eighty three per cent occurs at the direct expense of the forest3, and has been mentioned by an Indonesian rights and resource group,4 that in 2014 Indonesia had the highest rate of deforestation on Earth. Moreover, World Watch6 has estimated that in the expansion of oil palm production more than 340,000 hectares of Indonesian land has been traded from dense lowland forest to oil palm plantations,…

With both a growing population and a booming industrial economy the country of Indonesia is experiencing rapidly growing pollution issues, including: mass deforestation, smog, water pollution, and various other forms of environmental destruction. As a poverty ridden nation lead by a government with too little resources at its disposal the issues of extreme pollution are often put on hold to other societal issues. In Indonesia, many forms of environmental pollution / destruction are not only…