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The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up an unexpected opportunity in digitalization as more local micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) go online than before, but the lack of internet infrastructure in parts of Indonesia has made it difficult for some businesses to bounce back.
While the 2020 Human Development Report ranks Indonesia among high human development countries for a second consecutive year, the country has "medium" ranking according to the newly introduced planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index (PHDI), which measures the "excessive human pressures on the planet" and its impact on human development.
Women continue to be underrepresented at all levels of political leadership, and one in five women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 report experiencing physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner within a year.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), has launched a US$18 million project to provide access to solar power and clean water in remote parts of Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
ACCESS Project will install 23 communal solar power systems with a total power of 1.2 megawatts (MW) in 23 villages in West Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara and Central Kalimantan by 2023.
The issue is that complex economic mobility in Asian countries such as Indonesia makes it difficult for the government to keep track of its citizens who are living under or near the poverty line.
