Key Trends from the 2007 ASTI country report

• Indonesia’s total number of agricultural researchers in Indonesia fell slightly during 1994–2003 due to major reorganizations in government-led agricultural R&D.
  Nevertheless, with close to 5,000 fte researchers in 2003, Indonesia has one of the largest agricultural research systems in Asia.
• Qualifications of Indonesian agricultural research staff improved steadily in recent years, principally due to donor-financed training programs.
• Due to the Asian financial crisis, agricultural R&D spending has been severely cut since 1997. In 2003, the country's level of agricultural R&D investments was still below pre-crisis levels.
• In 2003, the national government provided 90 percent of funding to the nine IAARD agencies. Research on plantation crops, on the other hand, is almost entirely financed by the plantation sector itself.
• The private sector accounts for about one-fifth of Indonesia's agricultural R&D expenditures.

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