| TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS | ||
| adat | = | custom or tradition; customary law, traditional law |
| ADB | = | Asian Development Bank |
| ADD | = | Alokasi Dana Desa (Village Allocation Fund) |
| ANU | = | The Australian National University |
| APB-Desa | = | Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Desa (village budget) |
| ARC | = | Australian Research Council |
| ASEAN | = | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam) |
| avg | = | average |
| BI | = | Bank Indonesia (the central bank) |
| BMR | = | basal metabolism rate |
| BPD | = | Badan Perwakilan Desa (Village Representative Board, village council) |
| BPK | = | Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan Republik Indonesia (Audit Agency [literally, ‘Financial Audit Agency’] of the Republic of Indonesia, known as the ‘Supreme Audit Agency’) |
| BPN | = | Badan Pertanahan Nasional (National Land Agency) |
| BPS | = | Badan Pusat Statistik (Statistics Indonesia, the central statistics agency) |
| bupati | = | head of a kabupaten (district) |
| CEIC | = | Hong Kong–based data company |
| CSO | = | Central Statistical Office (Zambia) |
| Cultuurstelsel | = | Culture (or Cultivation) System (a 19th-century Dutch colonial policy of forced crop deliveries) |
| DAK | = | Dana Alokasi Khusus (Special Allocation Fund, the central government’s capital grant to provinces and districts) |
| Dana Desa | = | Village Fund program |
| desa | = | village (rural); community |
| DHS | = | Demographic and Health Survey |
| DPR | = | Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (People's Representative Council, also known as ‘House of Representatives’ and as ‘parliament’) |
| DPRD | = | Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah (Regional People’s Representative Council, regional assembly, regional parliament) |
| dusun | = | sub-village |
| ER | = | energy requirements |
| FAO | = | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FTA | = | free-trade agreement (or free-trade area) |
| GDP | = | gross domestic product |
| Golkar | = | originally Golongan Karya (the state political party under the New Order, and one of the major post–New Order parties) |
| HH | = | household |
| hutun adat | = | customary forest |
| hutan desa | = | village forest |
| IFLS | = | Indonesia Family Life Survey |
| IFLS3, IFLS4 … 3rd, 4th … rounds of the Indonesia Family Life Survey ILO | = | International Labour Organization |
| IMF | = | International Monetary Fund |
| INDO-DAPOER | = | Indonesia Database for Policy and Economic Research |
| ISEAS | = | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), now the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute |
| IV | = | instrumental variable(s) |
| JKN | = | Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (National Health Insurance) |
| kabupaten | = | district, regency |
| kecamatan | = | subdistrict |
| kota | = | municipality (formerly kotamadya) |
| lhs | = | left-hand side |
| LIPI | = | Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) |
| LLI | = | Lower Level Institutions |
| LMD | = | Lembaga Musyawarah Desa (Village Consultative Assembly) |
| LPS | = | Lembaga Penjamin Simpanan (Indonesia Deposit Insurance Corporation; literally, deposit guarantee institution) |
| MoHA | = | Ministry of Home Affairs |
| mosalaki | = | adat leaders chosen by the local community |
| New Order | = | the Soeharto era, 1966–98 |
| NPI | = | non-profit institution |
| OECD | = | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OJK | = | Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (Financial Services Authority) |
| OLS | = | ordinary least squares (econometric technique) |
| PAL | = | physical activity level |
| PMD | = | Pembangunan Masyarakat Desa (Directorate General of Community and Village Empowerment; village development office) |
| PNPM | = | Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (National Program for Community Empowerment) |
| PNPM Mandiri | = | Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat—Mandiri (National Program for Community Empowerment) |
| PSF | = | PNPM Support Facility |
| raja | = | village head or king |
| REDD+ | = | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, plus additional elements such as sustainable forestry management, reforestation, and afforestation |
| reformasi | = | reform (used to characterise post–New Order Indonesian society and politics) |
| rhs | = | right-hand side |
| RPJM-Desa | = | Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah—Desa (Medium-Term Village Development Plan) |
| Sakernas | = | Survei Angkatan Kerja Nasional (National Labour Force Survey) |
| SOE | = | state-owned enterprise |
| SPN | = | Surat Perbendaharaan Negara (Treasury bills) |
| Susenas | = | Survei Sosio Ekonomi Nasional (National Socio-economic Survey) |
| TFR | = | total fertility rate |
| TNP2K | = | Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan (National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction) |
| UNU | = | United Nations University |
| US | = | United States |
| VAT | = | value-added tax |
| VOC | = | Netherlands (or Dutch) East India Company |
| WHO | = | World Health Organization |
| WNPG | = | Widyakara Nasional Pangan dan Gizi (National Food and Nutrition Workshop) |
| CURRENCY | ||
| € | = | euro |
| $ | = | US dollar |
| A$ | = | Australian dollar |
| Rp | = | rupiah (exchange rate at end of May 2016 was Rp 13,619/$) |
| S$ | = | Singapore dollar |