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09JAKARTA1022
2009-06-17 06:39:00
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Embassy Jakarta
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DRAFT USAID COUNTRY STRATEGY FOR INDONESIA (2009-

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P 170639Z JUN 09
FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2574
UNCLAS JAKARTA 001022 


AIDAC FOR MARGOT ELLIS, AA/ASIA, A/A/ID, DAA/ASIA,
ASIA/SPO, ASIA/EAA, GDA, DCHA, EGAT, GH
DEPARTMENT FOR F, EAP, S/GAC, S/P

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID ID
SUBJECT: DRAFT USAID COUNTRY STRATEGY FOR INDONESIA (2009-
2014)

UNCLAS JAKARTA 001022


AIDAC FOR MARGOT ELLIS, AA/ASIA, A/A/ID, DAA/ASIA,
ASIA/SPO, ASIA/EAA, GDA, DCHA, EGAT, GH
DEPARTMENT FOR F, EAP, S/GAC, S/P

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID ID
SUBJECT: DRAFT USAID COUNTRY STRATEGY FOR INDONESIA (2009-
2014)


1. This is an action message. See paragraph five.


2. Today the Mission transmitted to USAID Washington its
proposed Country Strategy for Indonesia: A Partnership for
Prosperity.


3. The draft USAID Country Strategy for Indonesia (2009-14)
represents 18 months of systematic effort by staff
throughout the Mission, together with Indonesian and other
experts. They have all been engaged in analysis of
Indonesia's development progress and problems, producing a
dozen analytic reports. We have had vigorous debate.
Ideas have been elicited from visiting teams and through
workshops with experts who brought wide-ranging views.
Priorities have been vetted with the Embassy, with donors,
with civil society and with GOI officials. There is broad
and unanimous support for these proposals:


A. The well-regarded education portfolio, given high
priority by the Mission, the Embassy, the GOI and other
donors, is building on success by addressing the next
generation of challenges in basic education, improving
teaching. A new higher education initiative will respond to
Secretary Clinton's call for more linkages between U.S. and
Indonesian universities.


B. The innovative environment portfolio faces a range of
development challenges: from ensuring sustainability for
urban water and sanitation for the poor to developing
sustainable resource management strategies for forests,
marine ecosystems and energy. The Indonesian counterparts
for environment programs are seeking incentives for
communities to protect natural resources, including
agreements for international carbon credits. USAID will
join with the new GOI Administration in pragmatically
addressing global climate change.


C. Democracy and governance activities are shifting
emphasis to making democratic governance deliver better for
all Indonesians. Responsiveness to communities and clients
is being strengthened for the legislature, the judiciary,
and service agencies, at national and local levels.


D. The health portfolio is carefully targeted, designed in
concert with our health colleagues in Washington, to
improve Indonesian health services and control threatening
communicable diseases.


E. The economic growth portfolio is addressing the growing
need for good jobs and income in the lagging rural
communities where investment in infrastructure - roads and
electricity - is long overdue.

The strategy lays out an ambitious cycle of engagement by
USAID to accelerate IndonesiaQs development. The proposed
investments build on IndonesiaQs remarkable democratic,
social and economic transitions in the last ten years. The
investments focus on consolidating those gains and
redoubling nascent efforts to address global challenges
like climate change and infectious disease.


4. The strategy is consistent with the Embassy's 2011 MSP
and endorsed by Ambassador Hume. USAID priorities conform
to GOI plans, as confirmed by the National Planning Agency.


5. Early Washington consideration and review of this
strategy is requested. The Government of Indonesia has
asked us to confirm that the new USAID strategy is in place
by the end of July.

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