Indonesian Project, 1964-82

Component identifier:

Series

Content Summary:

The Indonesia Project was established in 1965 in the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific Studies Division of Economics. The Project monitored, analysed, and reported on recent economic developments in Indonesia; informed Australian governments, business, and the wider community about those developments, and about future prospects; and stimulated research on the Indonesian economy. A major function of the Project has been the publication of the Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies. Arndt was the Editor from 1965 to 1983 and there are files relating to the Bulletin in these papers.

The Project was initially funded by the University and, from 1965, it received financial assistance from the Ford Foundation for three years and an annual grant from the Reserve Bank of Australia In the early 1970s funds were received from Australian companies as a result of an appeal for assistance. Papers relating to this appeal are included in these papers. In more recent years the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade provided an annual grant to the Project, most recently through the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).

Many of these files are correspondence files. Included is correspondence regarding the Obor Publishing Project, Obor being a small foundation active in the field of cultural and intellectual development. For some years Obor focused on a project in scholarly publishing in which Arndt was involved.

There are files in alphabetical order from a number of correspondents, including research assistants, while other correspondence is held in subject files together with some other papers, such as account summaries, relating to the Project.

Consignments added February 1988 and May 1993.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first instalment of papers was donated by Professor Arndt under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1981. Further consignments were donated by Professor Arndt in two instalments, in February 1988 and in May 1993.

Names:

Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang, Professor

Contents

Access and use