| TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS | ||
| adat | = | custom or tradition; customary law, traditional law |
| AIC | = | Akaike information criterion |
| ANU | = | The Australian National University |
| Bappenas | = | Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional (National Development Planning Agency) |
| BAU | = | business as usual |
| BI | = | Bank Indonesia (the central bank) |
| BIC | = | Bayesian information criterion |
| BNP2TKI | = | Badan Nasional Penempatan dan Perlindungan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (National Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers) |
| BPS | = | Badan Pusat Statistik (Statistics Indonesia, the central statistics agency) |
| BRG | = | Badan Restorasi Gambut (Peatland Restoration Agency) |
| C | = | conditional |
| CAR | = | capital adequacy ratio (ratio of capital to risk-weighted assets) |
| CEIC | = | Hong Kong–based data company |
| CO2 | = | carbon dioxide |
| CO2e | = | carbon dioxide equivalent |
| CPI | = | consumer price index |
| CPO | = | crude palm oil |
| CV | = | coefficient of variation |
| DNPI | = | Dewan Nasional Perubahan Iklim (National Council on Climate Change) |
| EMC | = | emerging-market country |
| EU | = | European Union |
| FDI | = | foreign direct investment |
| Fragile Five | = | Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Turkey |
| G7 | = | ‘Group of Seven’ finance ministers and central bank governors from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States |
| G20 | = | ‘Group of Twenty’ finance ministers and central bank governors, established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialised and developing economies |
| GCF | = | Green Climate Fund |
| GDP | = | gross domestic product |
| Gt | = | gigatonne |
| IMF | = | International Monetary Fund |
| JEL | = | Journal of Economic Literature |
| JISDOR | = | Jakarta Interbank Dollar Rate |
| lhs | = | left-hand side |
| LNG | = | liquefied natural gas |
| LOI | = | letter of intent |
| LPDP | = | Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education) |
| LQ | = | location quotient |
| M&M | = | metals and minerals |
| MUI | = | Majelis Ulama Indonesia (Council of Indonesian Ulama [Muslim clerics]) |
| NDF | = | non-deliverable forward (financial contract) |
| NPI | = | non-profit institution |
| NPL | = | non-performing loan |
| OJK | = | Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (Financial Services Authority) |
| OPEC | = | Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| PDI–P (or PDIP) | = | Partai Demokrasi Indonesia–Perjuangan (Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle) |
| PLN | = | Perusahaan Listrik Negara (the state electricity company) |
| Q1, Q2 … | = | 1st, 2nd … quarter |
| QE | = | quantitative easing |
| RAN-GRK | = | Rencana Aksi Nasional Penurunan Emisi Gas Rumah Kaca (National Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions) |
| RBI | = | Reserve Bank of India |
| REDD | = | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation |
| REDD+ | = | REDD 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 |
| S&P | = | Standard and Poor’s (credit rating agency) |
| SAR | = | spatial autoregressive (model) |
| SDM | = | spatial Durbin (model) |
| SEM | = | spatial error (model) |
| SIJORI | = | Singapore–Johor–Riau |
| SOE | = | state-owned enterprise |
| SPN | = | Surat Perbendaharaan Negara (Treasury bills) |
| ST | = | sprayer–traders |
| TT | = | taper tantrum |
| U | = | unconditional |
| UKP-PIP | = | Ketua Unit Kerja Presiden Pembinaan Ideologi Pancasila (Presidential Working Unit for the Implementation of Pancasila as the State Ideology) |
| UNFCCC | = | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| US | = | United States |
| CURRENCY | ||
| € | = | euro |
| $ | = | US dollar |
| A$ | = | Australian dollar |
| Rp | = | rupiah (exchange rate at end of May 2017 was Rp 13,312/$) |
| S$ | = | Singapore dollar |