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Contributions from
the Column
Facts and trends
Reconstruction in Iraq: windfalls from war
Trade alone does not deliver development
Concern over independence of EU humanitarian aid
Debt relief for Iraq?
UN adopts convention to fight corruption
Security situation in Afghanistan fragile
German-Indonesian cooperation
Bribery in Nigeria’s oil business
Interview with Hans-Joachim Preuss: “The Kunduz operation will not bring more security”
12/2003
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[ German-Indonesian cooperation ]
On behalf of the BMZ, the Indonesian government has developed modern nature study teaching material and distributed it to 33,000 primary schools with a total of four million pupils. In addition, 510 advanced training centres for natural history teachers in the secondary school sector are to be set up. Indonesia is financing the project from its own budget funds, and in return Germany is giving the country debt relief of twice the sum involved (more than ¤ 25 million).
The German pledge, made during intergovernmental negotiations with Indonesia which were concluded at the beginning of November, totals ¤ 65.6 million. This reaches again the level of German development assistance to Indonesia before the Asian financial crisis of 1997. The priority areas of the bilateral cooperation are economic reforms, public health, transport and decentralisation, with this year’s fresh pledges focusing on the health sector. The pledges cover grants for HIV/AIDS prevention projects and for improving the public health system infrastructure on Indonesia’s outlying eastern islands, which suffer from poverty particularly badly.
Also, a public health fund is to be set up in Indonesia for the first time, with German experts as advisers. The fund is to serve solely the healthcare of the poorest people in a selected district of eastern Indonesia, which is the priority region of German development cooperation.
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