Investment Promotion and Local Economic Development in Indonesia

The project explored economic development policy into Indonesia in three cities: Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Central Java and Banda Aceh. The study involved interviewing policymakers in Yogyakarta and Central Java, and combined this new research with previous interviews in Aceh conducted in 2008 and 2009. We updated our interviews in Aceh in early 2011. Our investigators asked questions about improvements to the efficacy of Indonesia’s investment environment in each of these locations and gauged the articulation of World Bank efforts with those of the Indonesian government’s own investment board (BKPM) and local government efforts to stimulate economic development.

PI & Co-PI(s): Michelle Miller, Tim Bunnell & Nicholas Phelps

Funding Agency: Bartlett School of Planning, University College London