PL-480 : Indonesia

480 Title I program in Indonesia so as to better understand the extent to which it has contributed to the development process. This paper concentrates on the period 1982-86 since during this time (1) significant macroeconomic issues confronted Indonesia and (2) A.I.D. was, in light of increasingly scarce Development Assistance (DA) resources, attempting to integrate the P.L. 480 program more fully with other development programs and policy concerns. The organization of the paper is as follows. After an introduction, Section II outlines the macroeconomic situation facing Indonesia in the early 1980"s and describes the efforts at stabilization and adjustment which were undertaken by the GOI. Then the basic elements of the P.L. 480 program during that period are described in Section III. This includes the objectives of the program, the types and amounts of commodities provided, and the uses (primarily through self help measures) of local currencies generated from Title I sales. Finally, Section IV discusses a variety of policy issues related to the Title I program. These include whether the Title I program relaxes food or foreign constraints, the appropriateness of the program in light of Indonesia"s macroeconomic adjustment efforts, and the extent to which desirable policy changes have been accomplished with local currency generated by one program. (Author abstract)