A major aim for this report is to build on the findings of the earlier study and the lessons learned since then about the challenges of implementing a sustainable development strategy in Indonesia. We have also benefitted significantly from the analysis and conclusions of the World Development Report 1992, and have attempted to apply the lessons of experience summarized in that report to the challenges of sustainable development facing Indonesia in the years ahead.
An earlier draft of this report was intended to serve primarily as resource for the Government in the preparation of its next Five-Year Development Plan (REPELITA VI) and Second Long-Term Development Plan. It also represents, however, a stock-taking exercise on the issues of sustainable development that will be used by the Bank to review its programs of operational support for the coming years. To respond to growing concerns about urban environmental management and industrial pollution control, for example, will require that these issues feature more prominently in future Bank support than they have in the past. A major study on the provision of urban services is nearing completion, and a study focused exclusively on the issues of industrial pollution control will be initiated shortly. In both cases, the results will be incorporated in the design of future lending operations, consistent with Government priorities for Bank support under REPELITA VI.