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• Failure to recognize their diversity lumps the emerging donors into a single category. Also, the emphasis on outcomes as the sole means of judging their performance limits our understanding of how their aid projects are formed, an oversight which will have consequences for future projects. In that sense, an in-depth analysis of each emerging donor ...
• From the interactions with traditional donors, they become increasingly familiar with DAC approach. As a result, former recipients became more open-minded to adopt the DAC approach along with SSC practices. This is particularly true in the case of Indonesia where triangular cooperation constitutes only a small percentage of total Indonesia’s develo...
• Indonesia, during the 1955 Asia Africa Conference (the Bandung Conference), signed the Bandung Declaration which recognized the importance of SSC for exchanging “experts, trainees, pilot projects and equipment for demonstration purposes; exchange of know-how....” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia 1959, 161). A more intense form of cooperati...
• Indonesia persisted in maintaining the spirit of SSC even when it started to adopt some DAC principles
• Furthermore, Indonesia has lately begun to develop a cooperation approach of its own that is apparently different from that of DAC and the other emerging donors. Why is Indonesia attempting to create a self-inspired aid system and what are its implications for wider aid regime in the region?

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