Author Description

Product Description This book, co-authored by a group of leading Australian and Indonesian scholars, provides, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of regional economic development in Indonesia. Each survey sketches a regional economy and highlights major development issues and constraints. Taken together, the surveys point to both the similarities and the differences in regional development. Review `Several of the authors mention the unreliability of official statistics with which they have to work. One must hope that the considerable effort which has gone into this book will be justified by its usefulness to workers in the field.' Asian Affairs`this is a valuable source for understanding the Indonesian economy... its undoubted strength is that it is the kind of book readers will dip into for its unrivalled and authoritative coverage of economic structures and processes in particular provinces. By that measure it is an essential addition to any library holding on contemporary Indonesia' SOAS Bulletin About the Author Hal Hill is at Australian National University.