Indonesia Improves on MCC Development Indicators

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in Washington D.C. released its Fiscal Year 2008 (FY08) "Scorecards" on November 15, revealing dramatic improvement in Indonesia's key indicators. The FY08 Scorecard is part of the evaluation process the MCC Board uses to help determine MCC Compact eligibility.

For a country to be selected as eligible for an MCC assistance program, it must demonstrate a commitment to policies that promote political and economic freedom, investments in education and health, control of corruption, and respect for civil liberties and the rule of law as measured by 17 different policy indicators. Indonesia's scorecard reflected impressive improvement in a number of significant indicators.

The "Ruling Justly" category looks at: Civil Liberties, Political Rights, Voice and Accountability, Government Effectiveness, Rule of Law, and Combating Corruption.  "Economic Freedom" looks for progress in the areas of Inflation, Fiscal Policy, Business Start-up, Trade Policy, Regulatory Quality, and Land & Rights Access. "Investing in People" indicators reflect progress in  Public Expenditure on Health and Primary Education, Immunization Rates for DTP3 (diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough /pertussis) and measles, Girls' Primary Education Completion, and Natural Resource Management.

Indonesia improved its scores within the indicators Control of Corruption, Rule of Law, Primary Education Expenditures, and Fiscal Policy. Significantly, Indonesia achieved the median point on the important Control of Corruption indicator, reflecting Indonesian leadership's strong action-oriented commitment to combating corruption.

 

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Indonesia FY08 Scorecard [pdf, 28 KB]

"Indonesia's commitment to rule of law, investment in her people, and economic freedom underscores the Indonesian Government's determined steps forward toward creating a strong, democratic, just and developed nation," U.S. Ambassador Cameron R. Hume said in an Embassy statement.

The MCC Threshold Program supports Indonesia's efforts to qualify for Compact eligibility, which can be achieved by undertaking specific tasks with specific goals identified by the Government of Indonesia. The Threshold Program comprises a $55 million grant over two years focused on control of corruption ($35 million) and improving immunization ($20 million) activities. The MCC Threshold Program is administered for MCC by USAID Indonesia and runs from 2007 to 2009.

For more information on MCC's Threshold Program for Indonesia, please see http://indonesia.usaid.gov/en/Program.8.aspx. Indonesia's MCC indicator Scorecard for 2008 can be found at http://www.mcc.gov/documents/score-fy08-indonesia.pdf and additional information on Scorecards is located at  http://www.mcc.gov/selection/scorecards/index-2008.php

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