COUNTRY NOTES INDONESIA Priorities supported by indicators Strengthen resources for secondary education and improve the overall efficiency of the education system (2011) Recommendations: Make income transfer programmes conditional on children attending secondary school, and eliminate the secondary school enrolment fee for disadvantaged children in order to boost enrolment rates. [...] Actions taken: The National Education Strategy Plan is being implemented with the view to reducing disparities in access, enhancing the quality of teaching and improving management and accountability. [...] Actions taken: A regulation set the minimum wage increase at 15.4% in 2011 in the province of Jakarta (which amounts to about three times the economy-wide increase implemented in the first half of 2010). [...] Phase out energy subsidies (2011) Recommendations: Stick to the planned timetable to eliminate fossil-fuel subsidies and extend the commitment to electricity subsidies, while offering more effective targeted income support to the poor. [...] By contrast, no significant action has been taken to reform labour market regulation, and policy changes in the areas of business environment, the phasing out of energy subsidies and limitation of real minimum wage increases have gone in the wrong direction.
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