Repelita Masa Orde Baru

New Order Government (Orde Baru) Economic Focus
📌 The New Order government, under Suharto, prioritized community welfare through economic and social development.
🏗️ Development efforts were structured around Five-Year Development Plans (Repelita), implemented from Repelita I (1969-1974) through Repelita VI (1994-1998).
🌾 Repelita I (1969-1974) heavily focused on agricultural development, particularly increasing rice production, achieving an annual economic growth rate of 9.4%.

Repelita II and III Focus Areas
🛠️ Repelita II (1974-1978) aimed to expand job opportunities, promote more equitable income distribution, improve market structures, and increase regional development and transmigration.
📚 Significant social investment during Repelita II included building 100,000 schools in remote areas and employing over 500,000 teachers.
⚖️ Repelita III (1979-1984) introduced the Trilogy of Development: equity in development outcomes, sufficiently high economic growth, and healthy national stability.

Later Repelita Phases and Economic Challenges
📉 Repelita IV (1984-1989) shifted focus to increasing the economy by reducing dependency on the oil/gas (Migas) sector and creating new industrial jobs.
🎓 By the 1990s (leading up to Repelita V, 1989-1994), literacy rates increased to 89.6% for males and 78.7% for females.
💥 Significant foreign capital flowed into Indonesia, but this preceded the 1997 economic crisis, which was a major factor in the downfall of the New Order regime.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Economic stability and centralized political systems during the New Order period helped facilitate significant infrastructure and social development, such as massive school construction.
➡️ The core development philosophy evolved from purely agricultural focus (Repelita I) to addressing equity and distribution (Repelita III's Eight Paths of Equity).
➡️ High reliance on sectors like oil/gas and significant foreign debt accumulation (Indonesia became the third largest debtor globally by the mid-1990s) ultimately contributed to systemic economic vulnerability.

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