Indonesia has shown remarkable achievements in social, economic and political sectors since Asian financial crisis hitting the country in late 1990s. The country has performed well maintaining its economic indicators in the last few decades. Recently, Indonesia also received an upgraded sovereign credit rating to investment from major rating agencies during 2017 which will serve as a good capital to attract domestic and foreign investments in Indonesia coupled with good economic progress as well as well performance like in education and health sectors. In terms of political issues, the government has provided political stability against violence, social unrest and regional conflicts. However, some development challenges remained such as lowering inequality gaps across different socio-economic backgrounds, ethnicities, gender and geographical regions, improving quality of education which translate to producing competitive and well-equipped graduates to meet the labour market qualification needs. Having projected that Indonesia becomes one of four big economies by 2045, Indonesia should be able to manage its opportunities and challenges to reach its dream to be a resilient economy in 2045.

With funding from the Government of Japan, UNDP Indonesia in cooperation with Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) is implementing a project titled “Project 2045: The path to peaceful and prosperous Indonesia in 2045”.

The project aims to identify any potential avenues for Indonesia to be a resilient country with peace and prosperity in 2045 based on economic, political and social analyses. While the project is designed to ensure Indonesia is on track in meeting its national agenda to build a stronger economy and prevent conflicts and extremism, it will also serve as a commemoration of the 60th close diplomatic relationship between Indonesia and Japan. In the same time, it will broaden opportunities for UNDP, Government of Japan and other relevant partners to help Indonesia in paving the path to peaceful and prosperous economy in the future.

To meet that objective, the project activities will be achieved through three components: research activities that will provide evidence based concrete policy recommendations for the government of Indonesia, a high-level seminar that will primarily discuss on and disseminate the policy oriented research results, quality assurance and coordination. These project activities will consider the gender analysis component in the research related activities and gender representativeness in the panel discussion involvement at the high-level seminar and project assurance.