Gender-responsive Planning and Budgeting in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the Asia-Pacific countries that stands out for its implementation of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). It began in 2000 with a Presidential Decree that obliged all government agencies to mainstream gender in their policies, programmes and budgets to eliminate gender discrimination. Since then, there has been a progressive evolution applying gender mainstreaming in government, both at national and subnational levels.

Indonesia’s work on GRB stands out for many aspects: 1) Development of multiple regulations on GRB; 2) The institutionalization of tools with a gender focus applied in different stages of the budget cycle; 3) The performance budgeting software (KRISNA) that can track expenditures for gender equality; 4) Production of manuals that provide guidelines for GRB implementation at national and subnational level; and 5)
Participatory practices of GRB (only at local level) in communities where civil society participates in budgeting.