This book explores opportunities for Indonesia to accelerate national development through regional development and economic integration in Asia. It is organized into four parts: Part I discusses regional development in the era of decentralization. Part II reviews disparities and poverty issues in regional development. Part III examines challenges related to the improvement and expansion of public services from a financial perspective. Part IV explores environmental, human resources, and governance issues in regional development.

The book consists of 14 chapters on recent development of various issues in Indonesia. The book is divided into 4 Parts. Part I concerns on issues related to regional economic disparities. Part II is on agriculture and environment. Part III discusses financial sector development in the country. Finally, Part IV presents status of living conditions of the people in Indonesia.”

This book contains selected papers presented in The Second IRSA International Institute held in Bogor, 21-23 July, 2009. They report important findings from the studies on three big issues of regional development in Indonesia: Problems of Regional Development (Poverty, Unemployment, Disparities, and Sustainability), Political Economics of Regional Development (Spatial Planning and Fiscal Policies), and Prospect of Regional Development (Optimizing Partnership and Local Potential Resources).

This book contains 9 papers selected from papers presented at the 9th Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) International Conference, entitled “The Current and Future Issues of Regional Development, Energy and Climate Change”. 55 papers were presented at the conference, and 15 of them were submitted to be included in this book. This book is divided into 3 parts. Part I concern regional economics and development, Part II energy, and the last part climate change and the environment.