| TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS | ||
| ADB | = | Asian Development Bank |
| AEC | = | ASEAN Economic Community |
| AFAS | = | ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services |
| AFAS (7) | = | package seven of AFAS |
| AIPEG | = | Australia Indonesia Partnership for Economic Governance |
| AKTIS | = | ASEAN–Korea Trade in Services |
| ANU | = | The Australian National University |
| AP | = | availability payment |
| APEC | = | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| ASEAN | = | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam) |
| Bappenas | = | Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional (National Development Planning Agency) |
| BCLM | = | Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar |
| BI | = | Bank Indonesia (the central bank) |
| Bina Marga | = | Directorate General of Highways |
| BKPM | = | Badan Koordinasi Penanaman Modal (Investment Coordinating Board) |
| Bodetabek | = | Bogor-Depok-Tangerang-Bekasi (Jabodetabek minus DKI Jakarta) |
| BPPSPAM | = | Badan Pendukung Pengembangan Sistem Penyediaan Air Minum (Support Agency for the Development of Drinking Water Supply Systems) |
| BPS | = | Badan Pusat Statistik (the central statistics agency, formerly Central Bureau of Statistics) |
| BRICS | = | group of emerging economic powerhouse countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) |
| BRIICS | = | BRICS plus Indonesia |
| CEIC | = | Hong Kong–based data company |
| CGE | = | computable general equilibrium (model) |
| CVs | = | curricula vitae |
| DAK | = | Dana Alokasi Khusus (Special Allocation Fund, the central government's capital grant to provinces and districts) |
| DDA | = | Doha Development Agenda |
| DKI | = | Daerah Khusus Ibukota (Special Capital Region) |
| DPD | = | Dewan Perwakilan Daerah (Regional Representatives Council, also known as ‘House of Regional Representatives) |
| DPR | = | Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (People's Representative Council, also known as ‘House of Representatives’ and as ‘parliament’) |
| ERIA | = | Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia |
| FTA | = | free-trade agreement (or free-trade area) |
| GATS | = | General Agreement on Trade in Services (under the World Trade Organization) |
| GDP | = | gross domestic product |
| Gerindra | = | Gerakan Indonesia Raya (Great Indonesia Movement [Party]) |
| Golkar | = | originally Golongan Karya (the state political party under the New Order, and one of the major post–New Order parties) |
| GTAP | = | Global Trade Analysis Project (a global applied CGE model) |
| Hanura | = | Partai Hati Nurani Rakyat (People's Conscience Party) |
| ICT | = | information and communications technology |
| IMF | = | International Monetary Fund |
| IndII | = | Indonesia Infrastructure Initiative |
| Jabodetabek | = | Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang-Bekasi (the Greater Jakarta area—DKI Jakarta and the surrounding metropolitan area) |
| JEL | = | Journal of Economic Literature |
| Jokowi | = | Joko Widodo (Indonesia's seventh president, inaugurated on 20 October 2014) |
| KIEP | = | Korea Institute for International Economic Policy |
| lhs | = | left-hand side |
| MP3EI | = | Masterplan Percepatan dan Perluasan Pembangunan Ekonomi Indonesia (Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesian Economic Development) |
| MRA | = | mutual recognition agreements |
| Muhammadiyah | = | modernist Islamic organisation founded in 1912 |
| mun. | = | municipality |
| MUR | = | mega-urban region |
| New Order | = | the Soeharto era, 1966–98 |
| NPI | = | non-profit institution |
| OECD | = | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PAN | = | Partai Amanat Nasional (National Mandate Party) |
| PBAS | = | performance-based annuity schemes |
| PBB | = | Partai Bulan Bintang (Crescent Star Party, an Islamic modernist political party) |
| PBR | = | Partai Bintang Reformasi (Reform Star Party) |
| PD | = | Partai Demokrat (Democratic Party; Democrat Party) |
| PDAM | = | Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum (local water supply utility) |
| PDI–P (or PDIP) | = | Partai Demokrasi Indonesia–Perjuangan (Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle) |
| PDS | = | Partai Damai Sejahtera (Peace and Prosperity Party; Prosperous Peace Party) |
| PKB | = | Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (National Awakening Party; People’s Awakening Party) |
| PKS | = | Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (Justice and Prosperity [Prosperous Justice] Party) |
| PPP | = | Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (United Development Party, an Islamic political grouping) |
| PPP | = | public–private partnership |
| Q1, Q2 . . . | = | 1st, 2nd . . . quarter |
| REER | = | real effective exchange rate |
| reformasi | = | reform (used to characterise post–New Order Indonesian society and politics) |
| rhs | = | right-hand side |
| RON | = | research octane number (a measure of fuel quality) |
| Rp | = | rupiah |
| RUMiCI | = | Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (research project) |
| SANRAL | = | South African National Roads Agency Limited |
| SMEs | = | small and medium enterprises |
| SOE | = | state-owned enterprise |
| SPN | = | Surat Perbendaharaan Negara (Treasury bills) |
| STRI | = | services trade restrictiveness index |
| TiSA | = | Trade in Services Agreement |
| Uber | = | ride-sharing service headquartered in San Francisco |
| UK | = | United Kingdom |
| UNCTAD | = | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| US | = | United States |
| WTO | = | World Trade Organization |
| CURRENCY | ||
| $ | = | US dollar |
| A$ | = | Australian dollar |
| Rp | = | rupiah (exchange rate at end of January 2016 was Rp 13,858/$) |