Indonesia

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Key development facts

Where we work in Indonesia

Population: 240 million (2010)

Population growth rate: 1.5% (2000 - 2010)

Gross national income per person: USD 2580 (2010)

Real GDP annual growth rate: 6.4% (2011)

Population below poverty line: 12.49% (2011)

Net enrolment in primary education:
95.23% (2009)

Gender parity in primary education:
99.7 girls for every 100 boys (2009)

Mortality rate of children under 5:
44 per 1000 births (2007)

Maternal Mortality: 228 per 100,000 live births (2007)

Aid in action

Director General visits water and sanitation projects in Kalimantan

Training midwives in Indonesia

At the Ende District Hospital in East Nusa Tenggara, midwives like Aloisia Ernesta treat more than 100 women a month.

Our funding (2011-12)

AusAID: $510 million
Other Australian government aid: $48.1 million
Total: $558.1 million

Why we give aid

Indonesia is one of Australia’s closest neighbours and continues to face increasingly complex development challenges. Like other developing countries, Indonesia has had recent success achieving economic growth but is still afflicted by poverty. An Indonesian woman is 30 times more likely to die in childbirth than an Australian woman and one in three children under the age of five suffer from stunting, caused by malnutrition. About 120 million Indonesians do not have access to safe drinking water while about 110 million do not have adequate sanitation.

More than 12 percent of the Indonesian population live below the national poverty line and tens of millions more just above it, meaning that any shock, like a natural disaster or an economic downturn, could be devastating. Much more work needs to be done to open up opportunities for the poor, ensure all children receive a basic education, drive health care reform and create key infrastructure.

Our strategy

Australia and Indonesia work in partnership to achieve a prosperous, democratic and safe Indonesia. AusAID is working with Indonesia on activities that have real impacts on alleviating poverty.

The $558 million Australia-Indonesia bilateral partnership is changing millions of lives by funding significant initiatives in

investing in people by improving health and education,
boosting economic growth through infrastructure development and improved economic management,
providing support to protect the poor and vulnerable from shocks; and
democracy, justice and good governance.

Australia’s development assistance contributes to stability and growth in Indonesia, which is in both countries interests.

Impact of our support

Between 2005 and 2010, Australia built more than 2,074 junior secondary schools (years 7–9) which has created around 330,000 new school places
More than 90,000 girls in Indonesia have been able to go to school
More than 5,000 health workers and managers trained to support childbirth
In 2009, Australian–funded activities reached almost 16,000 injecting drug users and over 80,000 prisoners providing information regarding HIV prevention, counselling and referrals
In 2010, Australia has provided HIV information and materials to 75,000 people in the Papuan provinces.
More than 18,000 Supreme Court decisions are now online providing greater transparency in the court system
In 2010, Australia assisted communities in West Sumatra to rebuild more earthquake resilient buildings following the 2009 earthquake
Between June 2010 and January 2011, Australia connected more than 339,000 people in urban areas to water and/or sanitation networks