Realizing Indonesia’s Economic Potential tells the positive story of Indonesia’s
economy since the Asian financial crisis (AFC). Published ahead of the IMF and
World Bank’s annual meeting in Bali in late 2018, it presents Indonesia to the
world as a quiet achiever whose cautious macro policies have aided its steady if
unspectacular economic growth in the past two decades. It notes the potential
for increasing the growth rate back to the level seen before 1997 (7% rather than
the current 5%), and it considers the opportunities this would create to tackle
Indonesia’s many remaining challenges.