Donors failed to carry out their threats to suspend financing as the Indonesian government does a u-turn on IMF imposed increases in fuel and electricity prices.
Indonesia
Rights
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Indonesian experience casts doubts on Bank anti-corruption efforts
An Indonesian NGO complains that the Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity has not been sufficiently transparent and achieved limited results.
Accountability
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Indonesian MPs: write-off IMF loans
One hundred members of the Indonesian parliament wrote to the heads of the IMF and World Bank, condemning the institutions for implementing “disastrous orthodox macroeconomic policies”.
Finance
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East Timor debt, adjustment fears
The first elected government in East Timor faces an estimated US $154-$184 million shortfall in its initial three-year budget.
Finance
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Social legacy of Indonesia’s crisis
A new pamphlet from UNICEF details the social legacy of Indonesia’s financial crisis.
Rights
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“Fighting neo-liberalism in the Asia-Pacific”
The Asia Pacific Peoples’ Solidarity Conference will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, 7-10 June, 2001, organised by the Indonesian Centre for Reform and Social Emancipation (INCREASE ).
WB/IMF roles
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IMF critical of Indonesian decentralisation
The IMF is critical of the Indonesian’s government’s decentralization plans, which it believes could lead to excessive borrowing by regional governments.
Finance
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Little change in new IMF Indonesian programme
A revised programme agreed between the Indonesian government and the IMF in September has led to few changes.
Rights
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Human rights abuses in Indonesia
In a letter to Bank President, James Wolfensohn, the Japanese Network for Indonesian Democracy, called for the Indonesian Consultative Group meeting, scheduled for 17-18th October in Japan, to be postponed until the human rights situation improved.
Rights
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Jakarta activists call for local initiatives
NGO activists in Jakarta wrote an open letter to World Bank President James Wolfensohn in February, asking him to meet directly with the people to hear their own solutions to reverse Indonesia’s economic decline based on small-scale, local initiatives.
Rights
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Call to halt aid after Timorese massacres
Massacres perpetrated and condoned by the Indonesian army have led to calls to halt World Bank and IMF aid programmes to Indonesia.
Land
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Oil-Palm Watch
Indonesian NGOs, concerned about the spread of oil palm plantations since the onslaught of the crisis, have formed “Sawat (Oil Palm) Watch”.
