Regional Studies A Comprehensive Implement for Regional Development Planners

Abstract

Indonesia represents a particularly interesting country for studying development policies. It is large, being the fifth largest country in the world in population and the thirteenth in land size, geographically separated due to the island nature, and has a highly diverse society with a large number of different ethnic groups, languages and religious. It is also a country that has seen in long history as a struggling nation which never desperate. Regional study on developing countries as whole does not only imply regional economics of the regional entity economics of the regional entity as a whole and interregional connections, but also implies regional development policy and regional development policy and regional development planning.