12. Kerja Sama Indonesia-UNCTAD dalam Implementasi Competition Law and Policy di Indonesia Periode 2004-2007

Abstract

The monetary crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997 caused by various factors, one of the main
factor was the practice of concentration of economic power that tend to for a monopolistic
market. Thus, impacting the fragility of its economic resilience. In order to accelerate the
economic growth after the monetary crisis, Indonesia had received financial assistance
from the IMF, with the requirement that Indonesia had to restructure its economic system
as they agreed in the letter of intent. The letter of intent contains a point that Indonesia
shall implement the competition law and policy to prevent the concentration of economic
power activities in Indonesia such as monopoly, cartel and bid rigging. In the process of its
implementation, Indonesia had received assistance by UNCTAD to operate capacity
building for stakeholders. This research uses a perspective by neoliberal institutionalist to
analyze capacity building cooperation that conducted by Indonesia and UNCTAD. This
research is descriptive analytic and also used qualitative as its research method. The
conclusion showed that cooperation by Indonesia and UNCTAD are based on rationality,
which both sides took the benefit as they desired.