Foreword by Alexander Downer,
the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs

I welcome the publication of this directory as a valuable reference for Australian business involvement in Indonesia. Business links are an important element in maintaining a positive and mutually beneficial relationship between our two countries. The Australia-Indonesia Development Area (AIDA) is a joint government initiative to develop closer economic relations between Australia and Indonesia’s eastern provinces and districts. A central aim of AIDA is to improve the enabling environment for private sector trade and investment.

The AIDA Business Directory is designed to make it easier for Australian firms to identify potential trade and investment partners in eastern Indonesia. It will assist the matching of Australian and Indonesian small and medium-sized business partners by providing the first level of information that decision-makers need when exploring business opportunities. Indonesian firms will benefit from the promotion of the directory to prospective Australian buyers, suppliers and business partners. Australian firms will benefit from the directory’s assistance with the time-consuming and expensive process of searching for potential Indonesian business partners. 

Indonesia is undergoing a period of reform and transition, of which the decentralisation of the nation’s political and administrative systems is a key element. It is my hope that Australian businesses will play a supporting role during and beyond this period of change by taking up business opportunities in the provinces and districts of the AIDA region. I commend this directory to you as a tool to increase linkages between Australian and Indonesian businesses in eastern Indonesia.

Supported by funding from the Australian Agency for International Development ( AusAID ) the Australian Government's overseas aid agency.
Produced by Indonesia Management Specialists ( IMS ).
© 2001-2002 Commonwealth of Australia.
Updated on 22 May 2003.