The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched its new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Indonesia for 2025–2029, setting out a roadmap to accelerate the country’s inclusive, resilient, and sustainable economic growth.
Over the next five years, the strategy will advance along three strategic pathways—investing in people, strengthening economic competitiveness, and enhancing resilience and sustainability. These efforts will be supported by crosscutting priorities such as women’s empowerment, social inclusion, digitalization, stronger governance, and regional cooperation.
“Through a solid partnership spanning six decades, ADB remains steadfast in supporting Indonesia’s sustainable development,” said Jiro Tominaga, ADB Country Director for Indonesia. He noted that the new CPS is closely aligned with Indonesia’s medium-term development plan and its Asta Cita priorities, with a strong emphasis on innovative partnerships and financing solutions to mobilize private capital and advance inclusive growth.
Under the first pathway, ADB will focus on people-centered investments—strengthening healthcare and nutrition, particularly for mothers, children, and the elderly, enhancing skills development for the workforce, improving access to quality education, and reinforcing social protection systems to ensure inclusivity and adaptability.
The second pathway is aimed at boosting economic growth and job creation by improving the business environment, supporting reforms to strengthen trade, investment, and entrepreneurship, and helping maintain fiscal sustainability. ADB will also assist in deepening financial markets, mobilizing green finance, expanding financial inclusion, and addressing infrastructure gaps through investments in transport, urban mobility, inter-island connectivity, and digital infrastructure.
The third pathway emphasizes resilience and sustainability, with a focus on securing energy, water, and food resources. ADB will support Indonesia’s clean energy transition, including scaling up renewables and modernizing power grids through initiatives like the ASEAN Power Grid. The strategy also prioritizes tackling food insecurity, advancing rural development, and supporting the national free and nutritious meals program by improving agricultural productivity, irrigation systems, logistics, and market access.
By combining human development, competitiveness, and sustainability, ADB’s new Country Partnership Strategy reinforces its long-standing commitment to helping Indonesia achieve equitable growth and long-term resilience.
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