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- ↑ The 2003 Indonesian-language report by the Indonesian National Development Planning Agency, Bappenas, provides a very useful survey of the background to the establishment of the CGI and its activities up to 2003. The report can be accessed at Keberadaan Dan Peran Consultative Group for Indonesia (CG) Kajian dan Rekomendasi Kebijakaan Archived 2020-02-24 at the Wayback Machine [The Place and Role of the Consultative Group for Indonesia (CGI): Study and Policy Recommendations], Jakarta, 2003.
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- ↑ The work of the IGGI, including the events leading up the establishment of the CGI, are discussed in detail in J.A. Nekkers and P.A.M. Malcontent (eds), 2000, Fifty Years of Dutch Development Cooperation 1949-1999, The Hague: Sdu publishers.
- ↑ Countries represented were Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- ↑ Institutions attending were the International Monetary Fund, the International Finance Corporation, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the UN Development Programme, the European Community, the Islamic Development Bank, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, the Nordic Investment Bank, the Saudi Fund for Development, the UN Children's Fund, and the OECD.
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- ↑ World Bank, 2003, Twelfth Meeting of the Consultative Group on Indonesia', Washington DC.
- ↑ Speech by World Bank Indonesia Country Director, Andrew Steer, 20 January 2005
- ↑ Bappenas and the International Donor Community, 2005, Indonesia: Preliminary Damage and Loss Assessment: The December 26, 2004, Natural Disaster, prepared for The Consultative Group on Indonesia, January 19-20, 2005.
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