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PRESS/TPRB/285 
27 June 2007 
 
(07-2690) 
TRADE POLICY REVIEW: INDONESIA 
Steady economic progress with in vestor confidence key to future 
prospects 
Since its previous review in 2003, Indonesia has made steady economic progress with an average 
annual GDP growth rate of 5,2%, although not high enough to create sufficient job opportunities to reduce unemployment and cut poverty levels, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the trade 
policies and practices of Indonesia. 
 The Government is implementing a comprehensive reform agenda to improve the business and 
investment climate and boost infrastructure development. The report notes that if implementation 
continues in a timely manner, these reforms promise to remove some of the main obstacles to private investment and contribute to an acceleration in growth. 
 
The report says that taking advantage of the multilateral system by further locking-in any 
unilateral reform would also boost investor confiden ce and facilitate foreig n investment which will 
be key to Indonesia’s future prospects. 
 The report, along with a policy statement by the Go vernment of Indonesia, w ill be the basis for the 
fifth Trade Policy Review (TPR) of Indonesia by  the Trade Policy Review Body of the WTO on 27 
and 29 June 2007.  
The following documents are available in MS Wo rd format on the WTO web-site. They can be 
downloaded at http://www.wto.org/english/ tratop_e/tpr_e/tp285_e.htm  
 
• Secretariat report 
> Contents and summary observations  > Economic environment  
> Trade and investment regimes  
> Trade policies and practices by measure  > Trade policies by sector  
> Appendix tables  
• Report by the Government of Indonesia 
• Chairperson’s concluding remarks  
Minutes of the meeting (available appr oximately six weeks after the meeting). PRESS/TPRB/285 
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 Note 
Trade Policy Reviews are an exercise, mandated in the WTO agreements, in which member countries’ trade and related policies are examined and evaluated at regular intervals. Significant 
developments that may have an impact on the global trading system are also monitored. For each 
review, two documents are prepared: a policy stat ement by the government of the member under 
review, and a detailed report written independently by the WTO Secretariat. These two documents are then discussed by the WTO’s full membership in  the Trade Policy Review Body (TPRB). These 
documents and the proceedings of the TPRB’s meetings are published shortly afterwards.  
 Print copies of the TPR publications are available for sale from the WTO Secretariat, Centre William 
Rappard, 154 rue de Lausanne, 1211 Genève 21 and through the on-line bookshop at 
https://secure.vtx.ch/shop/boutiques/wto_index_boutique.html  or follow this path :  
www.wto.org >resources > publications > trade policy reviews  
 
The TPR publications are also available from our co-publisher Bernan Press , 4611-F Assembly Drive, Lanham, MD 20706-4391, United States 
Next reviews: 
Bahrain: 18 and 20 July 2007 
Panama: 17 and 19 September 2007 
Gabon/Cameroon: 2 and 4 October 2007 
 For a full list of previous trade policy reviews and the full programme of future reviews go to 
http://www.wto.org/english/trat op_e/tpr_e/tpr_ e.htm#reviews 
or follow this path : www.wto.org > trade topics > trade policy reviews  
 
 
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