This report has been prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE), led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This work was conducted as part of the OECD’s Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme of Work with financial support from the ADB.
The report was drafted by Alessandro Kandiah, Policy Analyst, LESI Division, under the supervision of Jonathan Barr, Head of Employment and Skills Unit, Local Employment, Skills and Social Innovation (LESI) Division, OECD/CFE. Karen Maguire, Head of LESI Division, provided overall feedback on the development of the report. Lucas Leblanc and Ida Peltonen, both from the CFE/LESI Division, contributed to this report through data analysis and editing.
ADB officials played an instrumental role in the development of this report, including Cristina Lozano, Senior Economist, Emma R. Allen, Country Economist, Rudi Van Dael, Senior Social Sector Specialist, and Aekapol Chongvilaivan, Economist. The OECD would also like to thank Winfried F. Wicklein, Country Director, Indonesia Resident Mission, Jose Antonio R. Tan III, Director of Public Management, Financial Sector and Trade Division, Southeast Asia Department, Mohd Sani Moh Ismail, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, Florissa V. Barot, Karen May B. Sanchez, and Jennalyn M. Delos Santos.
The OECD would like to express its gratitude to the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of National Development Planning/BAPPENAS, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Co-ordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, as well as to all Indonesian government officials who have been involved in the project. Professor Zantermans Rajagukguk, Head of the OECD project taskforce, Ministry of Manpower, provided inputs and overall project guidance. Mahatmi P. Saronto, Director of Labour and Employment Creation, and Suharti, Head of Bureau Planning and International Co-operation, helped collect data and information. The OECD would also like to thank Totok Suprayitno, Head of Agency for Research and Development, Ministry of Education and Culture; Adi Cahyadi, Deputy Director for OECD Co-operation, Ministry of Finance; Bara Ampera and Wesly Sinulingga, Ministry of Finance; Muhammad Iqbal Abbas and Yeni Febriyani, BAPPENAS.
Tri Rismaharini, Mayor of Surabaya, and Moh Ramdhan Pomanto, Mayor of Makassar, deserve a special mention for raising the visibility of the project in Indonesia and providing information on policies being implemented in the two cities. The OECD Global Relations Secretariat (GRS) team in Jakarta, including Massimo Geloso Grosso, Head of Jakarta Office, and Yulianti Susilo, Consultant, helped in the co-ordination and organisation of meetings in Indonesia and provided comments on the report. Glenda Quintini, Senior Economist, and Marieke Vandeweyer, Economist, from the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS), also provided useful comments and inputs.