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For tfie Sake of Our Future: Sacrificing in Eastern Indonesia. Signe Howell. ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Leiden University, 1996. 398 pp.

Regional income equality has been a major development goal. However, GRDP in Western Indonesia is higher than that in Eastern Indonesia. Therefore, the government should encourage development and increase economic growth in Eastern Indonesia. There are inequalities between those provinces. The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of labor, domestic investment, foreign direct investment, and government expenditure on GRDP in Eastern Indonesia Region. This study employed regression on panel data of 12 provinces from 2011 to 2016. The results found that labor, domestic investment, foreign direct investment, and government expenditure have positive and significant effect to GRDP. The results imply that all of the independent variables shuld be increas to promote economic growth in The Eastern Indonesia Region.

This paper explores the effects of different representations of informal economies in Third World settings. Both the neoclassical and political economy approaches have represented the informal economy as a transient entity, and the non-capitalist practices it comprises as being remnant economic forms, or as already capitalist. Mainstream development discourse (that reflects the neoliberal paradigm) continues to ignore the value and potential of non-capitalist practices and to represent them as inconsequential to development outcomes. Meanwhile contemporary livelihood studies across the social sciences have documented the continuing vibrancy of different and hybrid economic forms in the Asia Pacific. In this paper, I use a diverse-economies approach to explore the complexities of the village economy of Oelua in Rote, in the so-called lagging region of Eastern Indonesia. Drawing on anti-essentialist Marxist theory in economic geography, I describe the multiple, locally specific and coexisting practices that comprise Oelua's diverse economy, which include distributions of surplus labour to promote social and economic well-being. I argue that recognising informal village economies as an important development resource could begin a process of building diverse development trajectories in Eastern Indonesia, complementing mainstream development proposals to attract foreign direct investment, shore up development assistance and source out-migration.

This collection of essays concentrates on the scope for commercial cooperation between the Northern Territory and Eastern Indonesia, and the challenges confronting those seeking to exploit commercial opportunities. Contributors to this volume include the then Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Hon. Shane Stone, senior government ministers, Australian and Indonesian government experts in Eastern Indonesia, anthropologists, economists, historians and business people. Papers identify the live cattle trade, mining, the Timor Gap, technology transfers, education and tourism as sectors in which The Northern Territory has a competitive advantage and which offer scope for further development of trade between Eastern Indonesia and Northern Australia. The authors demonstrate that opportunities for the Northern Territory in Eastern Indonesia lie in capitalising on three advantages: proximity, complementarities between economic sectors and appropriateness to the needs of Eastern Indonesia of the Northern Territory's experience in applying new technology to harsh, remote and highly dispersed environments. In recognising the potential of the Asian market in the region, The Northern Territory is marketing itself as Australia's future gateway to Asia, particularly Indonesia. The Australia Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) agreement, which emphasised Australia's positive role in promoting private investment in Indonesia's Eastern Provinces, and continued the drawing of boundaries for Australia- Indonesia relationships, was signed by Ministers Downer and Hartarto in 1997. This collection reinforces the significance of the Northern Territory's relationship with Indonesia. It reinforces the countries' position as neighbours and highlights the need to assist business and encourage investment from both countries.

Utilization of the available potential of sago resources is one of the efforts that can be done in order to fulfill food needs which are increasingly in demand from time to time. Management of sago resources requires effective planning to reduce the risk of resource decline as a guarantee of sustainability. This research was carried out from December 2020 to February 2021 in East Indonesia, especially in east Seram Regency. It involved 14 stakeholder representatives from the local government, Regional House of Representatives members, non-governmental organizations and sago farmers. By using participatory prospective analysis (PPA) this study had identified the seven most influential variables in governing the sago agroindustry which are reflected in the weighted global forces, that are: market guarantees, stakeholder participation, government policies, supporting infrastructure, IKM (Public Satisfaction Index/PSI) units, increasing farmer human resources and economic activities. As a follow-up, this study has also formulated strategic implications as an anticipatory effort in the form of an action plan, that are: encouraging regional policies to establish sago as a regional superior commodity and creating market guarantees, maximizing stakeholder participation in managing sago agroindustry to increase community economic activity, fulfilling supporting infrastructure for increasing production and processing of sago, growing PSI units and increasing farmers' human resources capacity in managing sustainable sago agroindustry. It is suggested for the local government to take advantage of the identified variables as an entry point to build an effective plan in maximizing the management of the available sago resource potential.

This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of village funds on social welfare of the district society in Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, and West Papua Provinces based on 2015-2018 data. The Village funds began to be distributed to all villages in these four provinces and other provinces in Indonesia in 2015. The data collection technique uses documentation technique, so that it produces secondary data in the form of a village funds, the Government Regional Budget, Gross Regional Domestic Product, and Human Development Index reports in four provinces which have been published on the official website of the Indonesian Statistics Agency. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling method with considerations in accordance with the objectives of the study. Based on the results of the regression analysis, it shows that village funds have not been able to influence on social welfare of the district society even though this has been accompanied by an allocation of capital expenditures and economic growth variables. There is a possibility that the size of the area in the villages in the four provinces and the quality of human resources for managing village funds in districts is an obstacle.

Tourism is often pinpointed as a sector of growth for countries in the developing world, and this perspective has been readily accepted in Indonesia. Government officials in poorer sections of the country, such as Nusa Tenggara Timur province (NTT) in eastern Indonesia, have high hopes for the role that tourism can play in developing these poorer regions. This is not surprising, given the increasing renown of the Komodo National Park, just west of the island of Flores, where the world famous Komodo dragons reside. However, how exactly tourism is supposed to raise the standard of living and aid in development in NTT province is often unclear. In this paper I want to critically look at ideas about tourism and development in NTT, by focusing on the 'Sail Komodo' yacht rally, a major tourism event that took place from August to September 2013. Sail Komodo was as a marine tourism event expected to boost tourist numbers, lift the standard of living of people in this province and lower poverty levels. I critically analyze this event within the context of a 'mega event', and show how the contradictory ideas about how the event was meant to lead to prosperity for the poor can indicate the sometimes misguided relationship posited between tourism and development. (ASEAS/GIGA)