REPELITA-VI AND THE 2ND LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN

The publication of the Sixth Five Year Development Plan (Repelita VI) of the New Order government is interesting not just because of the information it gives on the government's economic targets for the next five years. In this document the National Planning Board (Bappenas) has also taken the opportunity to make a number of projections for social and economic change in Indonesia over the next five plan periods, to the year 2019. This survey begins with a brief look at this 'Vision 2020' for Indonesia, before examining the projections for the years 1994/95 to 1998/99 in more detail.(1) As is usual in the successive plan documents published in New Order Indonesia, the emphasis is on generalised expressions of policy intent, usually couched in language sufficiently vague to avoid confronting particular interest groups. Thus the reader searching through the volumes comprising the Sixth Plan in the hope of finding rigorous analysis of economic policy issues is likely to be disappointed. On the other hand, the document does discuss macroeconomic and sectoral targets, often in considerable detail, and it is these targets, together with the policy measures necessary to achieve them, which will be the focus of this survey.