why indonesia is become a poor country?

Answer 1

Reasons are:
1. There was a civil war (Timur) 2. Unstable governments 3. Intervention of military in civilian rule 4. Natural calamities.
Otherwise I am seeing a lot of improvement taking place in Indonesia. Best wishes for a better life in your country, by an Indian.
VR

Answer 2

Perhaps now it is dawning on us what it means to be a poor country. And as far as they go, Indonesia is exceptionally poor.

Australia's gross domestic product per capita is $US23,200 (on a purchasing power parity basis). Indonesia's is $US2900.

For the sake of regional comparison, Thailand's is $US6700 and Malaysia's is $US10,300.

The practical consequences of poverty such as Indonesia's really only become apparent when you need local hospital care or urgent assistance from the local police. Not when you need another back massage or Tequila Sunrise.

Indonesia can look relatively developed if you fly into Bali or Jakarta. Both international airports work relatively well and look surprisingly modern. But they are misleading introductions to what lies beyond. Both were built and paid for by the Japanese Government.

But the real test of a country's development is not how many shiny office towers or international resorts it has but how it copes with shocks: how it deals with them and how it recovers from them.

Indonesia has its hints of affluence. But largely they're superficial.

One reason why the explosions in Kuta were so devastating was because gas cylinders exploded up and down Legian Road. Almost all Indonesians use gas for cooking. And yet almost nowhere are there gas mains, even in Jakarta. Gas cylinders must be trundled into each dwelling so that families can cook. It means that even in luxury expatriate accommodation, a high-rise block of condominiums represents several thousand cubic metres of bottled gas, given that each apartment will have one for the stove and a couple in reserve.

Record keeping is a mess in Indonesia in the best of times. There's little computerisation. Even when there is, there's often basic confusion about how to record people's names. There's no standard system of names across Indonesia. Many Indonesians have just one name and no surname. Many have aliases.

This confusion was clear after the Bali bombing. Some hospital records recorded even Western survivors simply by their first names. Several were named only as Adam, for example. If the first and surnames were used then often they were filed under the first name and so on.

Health care is of a low standard generally. One report described Denpasar as having 14 hospitals. Denpasar would be lucky to have more than a few such facilities that Australians would recognise as a hospital.

In any event, Western expatriates in Indonesia leave the country at the first hint that they might need hospital care, typically flying either to Singapore or Perth. Nor do they stay in Indonesia for anything other than the most routine dental care.

Even basic health care is suspect. The first occasion I visited a doctor's surgery in Jakarta when I lived there was for a persistent cough.

The doctor wrote out a prescription, then showed me to the door from where he pointed to a nearby pharmacy. The prescription turned out to be for hundreds of dollars worth of drugs. Later, I discovered that Indonesian doctors commonly have shares in their local pharmacies.

Most Australians think of the police as impartial, efficient and courteous. In relatively few places in Asia are local police regarded as anything like that. Recently I asked a mainland Chinese student in London what he had found most surprising in England. It was his first time outside China. He thought carefully then said the biggest surprise was the police. "They are polite," he said. "Very polite. They're very respectful. You can even ask them things and they help you." It meant a lot to him.

There's a saying in Indonesia that if you have a problem and you call the police, you'll have an even bigger problem. It's no exaggeration. Police in Indonesia generally approach each situation with an attitude of what's in it for them.

Rarely in Jakarta do they attend house burglaries unless they're bribed to, and then they might well want to help themselves to some of what's left.

This is what being a poor country means. But it's chicken and egg stuff. The country can't afford a competent police force, and corrupt police help keep the country poor. That is why the Australian Federal Police are in Kuta right now doing what Indonesia's police can't.

Indonesia's police, though, are good at killing. The number of suspects shot dead while allegedly resisting arrest or attempting to escape is phenomenal. Perhaps that's another thing a poor country can't afford: trials.

Disaster brings with it opportunity in Indonesia. As many as six unofficial roadblocks were erected across the tollway to Jakarta's airport by local villagers when expatriates and others sought to flee the city in 1998 during serious rioting. They stopped cars and demanded money at knifepoint before letting them pass.

Indonesia is currently emerging from its political and economic crisis and has undergone tremendous changes in its structural and political reforms, with progress levels to varying degrees. Indonesia's poverty level that has reached its peak in the height of the crisis have fallen to its pre-crisis level

Answer 3

Bad government

Answer 4

because we in debt.
and we have unstable politic acts recently.
yet we have to face many disaster, such as earthquake and tsunami.
and the fools make it even worser. terrorist, rebels, un-educateds, etc.
so we have many many problems in our big country.

Answer 5

because ofterrorist activities

Answer 6

No money?

Answer 7

hurricane!!